KOCT's 15th Annual Outback Steakhouse Fundraiser On May 12

OCEANSIDE, CA — KOCT Television invites the community to attend the 15th Annual KOCT Outback Steakhouse Fundraiser on Thursday, May 12.

Tickets are $25 per person and include a Blooming Onion at every table plus a choice of Steak, Pork Chop or Salmon as the main entree. There are two seating times available at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.

The KOCT Outback Steakhouse Fundraiser helps support the future of public access media in Oceanside. KOCT-TV provides local news coverage that the community can count on. KOCT relies upon the community through viewership, donations, sponsorships and underwriting shows to keep producing quality content for North County.

The Patch reached out to KOCT Executive Director Carly Starr Brullo Niles for the latest on what's happening at KOCT and how the community can show support for The Oceanside Channel.

"We thought it was time to bring back this annual tradition that is hugely popular in our community. I mean who doesn't like a good steak on a Thursday afternoon."

I don't think a lot of people realize that most of the original programming KOCT does around Oceanside is supported through fundraisers like this. How important is community support?

"Yes, it is vital to everything we do. We're trying to get out into the community even more, but that takes funding. It's important to have an unbiased and objective voice like KOCT that after 40 years continues to shine the light on our city and all the good stuff that is going on here. We want to be advocates out in the community and show everyone what an amazing place Oceanside really is."

I understand that as part of the KOCT Outback Steakhouse Fundraiser that you are encouraging people to sponsor military families?

"Yes. we are. It's always important for us to support the military. We realized many people may not be able to attend the fundraiser but want to show their support to KOCT, so we thought we'd include an option for people to sponsor local military and their families to have lunch. We just had one person purchase 13 tickets to sponsor our military neighbors and think that's just extraordinary and an example of how our community supports each other."

Tickets for the 5th Annual KOCT Outback Steakhouse Fundraiser on Thursday, May 12 are available at: https://www.koct.org/fundraiser with discounts for the military.

View the promo video for the KOCT Outback Steakhouse Fundraiser.

KOCT is a Local Community Television Station and is one of the last remaining fulfillments of unbiased Public Broadcasting in America. As a non-profit venture, we are different from any other local station. KOCT Television has two designated channels, COX COMMUNITY CHANNEL 18 for Arts, Culture and Education, and COX GOVERNMENT CHANNEL 19 for History, Local Politics and City Government. If you do not subscribe to Cox Cable, go to KOCT.ORG for 24-hour Live Stream coverage of both channels. Follow @kocttv on Social Media for the latest updates.

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