Has anyone else out there ever won anything exciting on the radio? Just curious - this morning I was able to sing the first verse of “No Particular Place to Go” by Chuck Berry and win 4 tickets to his concert here in Columbia tomorrow night…as an aside, if you have won, did you have to do something embarassing (like sing) to get the prize?
I’ve won several things on the radio. For three nights, I was the champion on WMAL’s 7:30 quiz. I had to answer 3 questions about the day’s news before my opponent did. I got bagels, a car detailing, and tickets to a home & garden show.
I also won breakfast with the morning DJs at WCXR. For this, I had to complete the lyrics to this Moody Blues verse:
I’m looking at myself reflections of my mind,
It’s just the kind of day to leave myself behind.
So gently swaying through the fairyland of love,
If you’ll just come with me you’ll see the beauty of Tuesday afternoon
I actually said, “If you’d just come with me and see the beauty of Tuesday Afternoon,” but I was the tenth caller they asked, and the previous 9 were off by a mile.
I once won a copy of the Lion King Soundtrack CD.
Aha, a topic right up my alley. I have won two tickets to the “Star Trek Generations” premiere by screeching like an ape on the radio. I have won two passes to the “Army of Darkness” premiere through trivia and I won $100.00 because I was enthusiastic. Through winning I have learned, many times when they say they want the eighth caller they just was someone who is enthusiastic, so if you act like an idiot, it improves your chances. Probably why I win a lot.
I worked for a radio station for a year and half. They’d just hand crap to me.
Fun story, our big ratings-sweep giveaway was Free Rent for a Year. The station would pay, up to $700 a month (which is high in my area) your rent/morgage/what-have-you. They did all the qualifing crap, and then the big day came. They called the winner, and told him on the air. He was (expectedly) excited. When the DJ asked him what he was going to be spending all the money he was saving on rent, the winner replied “Crack and Whores, Matt. Crack and whores.” After a promotion of that size is run, we’d use soundbites of the winner afterwards, as a sort of “We’re such a cool station, look what we did,” thing. Needless to say, this PARTICULAR soundbite was played WAY more than any other. In fact, the winner called me and asked me to stop running it, because it “makes my wife angry.” We didn’t. In fact, that was a spring promotion, and we were running promos for the year in review thing in December with it. Crack and whores. Heh. True story.
I once won a “Station Prize Pack” including an extremely mediocre Debbie Harry record, a gift certificate for a “Swedish Body Wrap” (never redeemed), a promotional T-shirt for “Weekend at Bernies 2” (!?!), and a months worth of breakfasts at a place called “Wonder Waffle”.
When The Wall was re-released in theatres about 5 years ago, one of the radio stations had a contest to win tickets for the opening night. I had to finish some Pink Floyd lyrics. I think it was from the song “Mother”.
I won a case of Campbell’s soup. I must be listening to the wrong station.
SwimmingRiddles… that was too funny!! I love it.
I have won several things off of the radio. A couple of months ago I won tickets to a local rodeo. I’ve won t-shirts and cd’s, concert tickets, and free food. My friend won tickets off of the radio last week for a concert this Sunday. He’s going to take me to it. Nothing like a free concert.
I knew that Peter Gabriel’s first three albums were self-titled. For this useless bit of knowledge I won a coupon for two McDonald’s Quarter Pounders. Really.
Cheap bastards.
Back in the mid-70s before there were phones with redial I was pretty fast with my fingers and I called into a radio giveaway where they wanted the 10th caller and I got picked up on the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th and 10th time. I won a window unit air conditioner which I never had any use for. I lent it to a girl I knew and she dropped it out of her second story window when she opened the window.
I won a beach cooler and a pair of movie passes on WMMS 100.7 back in the late '80s by knowing that the double-0 in 007 indicated a license to kill.