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Authorities Investigate Alleged Rigged Contest at KVI

I've never seen a radio contest fixed but I have seen entries drawn and thrown back because the jock couldn't pronounce their name.
 
It's good that somebody finally started looking at this sort of thing, because identity theft and all manner of switcheroos take place when you have a dishonest person on the air working a contest. It is rare, but I can think of two places it has happened in two different states. One station is no more; the other is in a smaller market still.
 
Wow...an INTERESTING discussion on here for a change!

So has anyone ever "not played fair" for reasons of good "intention?". I will admit, for example, that I would screen winners without identifying them as a winner -- and if I could identify the voice of an over-the-top prize pig I'd move to the "next" caller. More of a reverse of what this P/I story is about. If the caller couldn't be voice-identified or was unfamiliar ... they would continue on in the process. I justified it as protecting a "30-day lockout" rule ... even though I wasn't sure at the time whether they were specifically within a 30-day window.
 
LITTLEBOYBLUE said:
Wow...an INTERESTING discussion on here for a change!

So has anyone ever "not played fair" for reasons of good "intention?". I will admit, for example, that I would screen winners without identifying them as a winner -- and if I could identify the voice of an over-the-top prize pig I'd move to the "next" caller. More of a reverse of what this P/I story is about. If the caller couldn't be voice-identified or was unfamiliar ... they would continue on in the process. I justified it as protecting a "30-day lockout" rule ... even though I wasn't sure at the time whether they were specifically within a 30-day window.
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Thanks for the fess up, have to admit this has occurred to me too. Tho, you have you 2 different scenarios here and they are in no way alike. One is protecting your airwaves, one is criminal.
 
There were indicators before the investigation began. There always are, and there was probably more involved than cash.

That which does not fit is usually a pretty good indicator, i.e. offering people a chance to win a 20 minutes on a tanning bed an hour and a half away. By the way, that is an hour and a half drive outside of the market in the brutal cold dead of winter to win 20 mintues tops on a tanning bed so that you can then travel back home another hour and a half. Counting on the fact that everyone listens to the competing station with the same format in the town an hour and a half away is part of it. Any aspect of programming that requires listener involvement is usually where it happens, although it is also usually led up to in other places.

It also makes no sense to go into a market where nobody can hear you to solicit the tanning bed prize.

There is more than a contest in something like that, usually to get to whatever is going on at that spa or nearby - which results in money. Contest fraud is not limited to money being won up front, but can be a means of getting the word out about something illicit that may be going on.
 
Silkie said:
...There always are, and there was probably more involved - than cash....
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Makes one think of the ol' p-word: 'payola'

However if she had been a dee-jay (on, say: KJR-FM) and recieved payola, what would give?...

..another reason NOT to use your real name as a radio disk-jockey...
 
dialtwister said:
Silkie said:
...There always are, and there was probably more involved - than cash....
Click to expand...

Makes one think of the ol' p-word: 'payola'

However if she had been a dee-jay (on, say: KJR-FM) and recieved payola, what would give?...

..another reason NOT to use your real name as a radio disk-jockey...
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It wouldn't matter; the station would have to give her up.
 
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