It’s always “listen and win” contests around here. Has anyone experienced or heard a really good radio contest? I’m assuming the best contest for a listener is one in which they don’t really have to do anything.
My fate keeps getting in the way of my destiny.
We have a contest here where you have to answer your phone when they call you, “C103 plays Moncton’s best music, now show me my money”. The grand prize in this contest is $100,000.00
Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Our Oldies station (Kool 104.3) has a contest each year whereby they ‘hide’ $10,000.00 somewhere in the world, and then they give you clues each day. The winner gets an all expense paid trip to ‘pick it up’.
Some of the clues are ingenious, and it really takes work to put it together.
VB
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.
Someone where I work won a contest in which the prize was getting your picture on a local freeway billboard. It was pretty funny, because the billboards were advertising Bud beer and she was 8 months pregnant at the time. An interesting PR challenge for them, I bet, given that the winners were introduced to a packed house at the local football stadium.
Shadowfox
“The dead have risen, and they’re voting Republican!” - Bart Simpson
The jury is still out on deciding whether this is the BEST contest, but this is the most original I’ve seen in a while:
A points program. Throughout the day, passwords are heard over the airwaves or selected Artists-of-the-day are played. You enter the required codes into your computer screen saver should one of these be heard(this degree of continual participation probably excludes it from the “not really having to do anything” category as stated by drollman). Points are accrued by this method over time.
At certain times during the year that the contest is run, the points are redeemable in auctions for prizes, or discounts from the radio station’s sponsors, etc etc etc.
I decided to participate when the local station started up their rewards program last month… I want to see if my points will be worth anything more than a key ring in December.
My local public radio station, KCRW, has every week-end (along with all other national public radio stations) the NPR Week-end Edition Sunday Puzzle. If you get the right answer to the challenge, you get called to be on the air and try and get answers to the on-air quiz (usually word puzzles.) If you get those right, you win a T-shirt or something, plus the glory of having everyone in the country knowing that you’re smart.
The Current Challenge (given March 5, 2000):
Think of 2 words meaning STATION that are anagrams of each other, that is, two words that can be defined as “STATION”, which have the same letters, but in a different order. What two words are they?
Send your answers on a postcard to:
PUZZLE
Weekend Edition/Sunday
National Public Radio
635 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001
Or, you can e-mail your answer to puzzle@npr.org
San Fran Bay Area: KJZY - Trip a day, to anywhere, everyday of the year 2000. My name’s in, but I always forget to listen. I remember one person (from this area) took their trip to San Diego. I almost died…
“So, for once in my life, let me get what I want.
Lord knows, it would be the first time.”
Yeah, Demo, I can just see you sitting around all day listening to jazz on the radio. 
KFOG 104.5 in San Francisco has Request-O-Rama in the mornings. The DJ’s ask a question (could be about anything) and if you can answer it, you get to request any song. Sounds stupid, I know, but the questions are really tough sometimes, and it’s not so much what you win, but the fact that you get the answer right. Plus you get serious bragging rights amongst other Fog-Heads (so we’re easily amused, big deal). Hey, where else are you gonna’ get to hear “Fee” by Phish on the radio (that was what I requested)?
She said, “A good day ain’t got no rain.”
She said, “A bad’s when I lie in bed and think of things that might have been.”
That sounds like a great deal to me! You could request Revolution 9 by the Beatles, or Mahler’s third symphony, or the John Cage piece that’s three minutes of silence… I wish we had KFOG here!
No.
Heck is where you go when you don’t believe in Gosh.
oh, the cheese! we have the same thing on one of our stations but it’s “i listen to ckom on fm, now show me my money!”
if wishes were fishes, we could walk on the ocean.
Go to www.kfog.com. They have a streaming-audio feed that’s on 24 hours a day. The morning show is really good. Great radio station in general, but it has gotten a lot more commercial in recent years.
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