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LOS ANGELES — More than 80 million people tuned in for last week’s all-star “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon. The Nielsen Co. said Monday that an estimated 83 million people saw at least a brief part of the fundraiser, carried Friday on 33 TV networks. The audience watching the two-hour event at any given time averaged 24 million viewers.
Organizers for the telethon said it has raised $57 million, with more donations coming.
