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A new morpheme survives the novelty of its first innovation (like telethon for - athon ) because it turns out to be useful, almost as if by accident, and brings something new into the idiom.
In any case, telethon took hold quickly.
That forms like sale-athon retain the a even after the base element's e demonstrates that the -athon of marathon , rather than the -ethon of telethon , is perceived as the primary form of the suffix, but the matter has not been completely settled: consider alcothon (which I hope was a test of abstinence rather than indulgence).
Watching the rolling party across the globe on ABC and CNN was strangely riveting--not least of all because Peter Jennings felt compelled to pull a Jerry Lewis telethon and anchor the whole thing himself.
Then in 1949 the San Francisco Examiner reported on a telethon , cautiously enclosing the word in quotation marks to show it was a neologism.