Watch TV interviews across the US to celebrate National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month
September 11, 2017
- Summary: On September 12, watch TV interviews across the US to celebrate National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month.
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On September 12, in celebration of National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month, Mellanie True Hills and John Day, MD will do a series of media interviews on TV stations across the US to raise awareness of atrial fibrillation.
Please check the tentative schedule below to see if your local station is included, and if so, please tune in to learn more about afib and treatment options. (Note that interviews that are scheduled for cities in the path of Hurricane Irma may change or be delayed for viewing on another day.)
National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month TV Interviews
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
| Time Eastern |
Market | Station/Show/Affiliate |
|---|---|---|
| 8:15-8:25 | Abilene | KXYL FM Radio Morning Show ABC |
| 8:30-8:40 | Springfield, MO | KOLR TV Daybreak FOX |
| 9:10-9:20 | Syndicated on ION Tampa Miami Orlando West Palm Jacksonville |
Rose Lee Archer Show WXPX TV WPXM TV WOPX TV WPXP TV WPXC TV |
| 9:20-9:30 | Omaha | KMA AM Radio Dean & Friends ABC |
| 9:30-9:40 | National | NewsWatch Syndicated |
| 9:40-9:50 | Regional CO & NE |
KOGA AM Radio Midwest Opinions iHeart |
| 10:10-10:20 | National | Coffee w. America TV Syndicated |
| 10:20-10:30 | Evansville | WEHT TV Lifestyles ABC |
| 10:30-10:40 | Wichita | KCTU TV Your Hour IND |
| 10:40-10:45 | Columbus | WTTE TV Good Day Marketplace FOX |
| 10:45-10:50 | Dallas | Valder Beebe Radio Show KKVI-FM – KYBS-FM IND |
| 10:50-11:00 | Providence | WADK AM Radio Talk of the Town ABC |
| 11:05-11:10 | Austin | KEYE TV We are Austin CBS |
| 11:20-11:30 | Dothan | WDHN TV Wake Up Wiregrass ABC |
| 11:30-11:40 | Huntsville | WYAM TV Valley Happenings IND |
| 11:40-11:50 | Montgomery | WSFA TV Alabama Live NBC |
| 11:50-12:00 | Toledo | WFIN AM Radio Good Mornings ABC |
| 12:30-12:40 | Radio Website Internet |
Radio Vision Morning Coffee Internet |
| 12:45-12:55 | Cleveland | WINT AM Radio Live & Local4 Lunch IND |
| 12:55-1:05 | Greenville | WNCT TV Health Segment CBS |
Mellanie True Hills is an afib patient and founder and CEO of StopAfib.org, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping those living with afib to get their lives back and to rid the world of afib-related strokes. She has been afib free for 12 years as a result of a surgical procedure. In 2007, she created Afib Awareness Month and worked with medical societies to get the US Senate to officially declare September as National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month.
John Day, MD is a cardiac electrophysiologist and Director of the Intermountain Heart Institute Heart Rhythm Specialists. He is Past President of the Heart Rhythm Society and Utah Governor Elect of the American College of Cardiology. He has authored more than 100 scientific and medical journal articles and a book, The Longevity Plan: Seven Life-Transforming Lessons from Ancient China.