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Prize Pigs

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CrapThunder

PRIZE PIGSwe all know them, they show up at every station apperance no matter what the format is, and who the personality is.Does anybody have any good prize pig stories to share? ;DCan anyone name some of Long Islands famous pigs? :eek:For me it will be Howard Flam and The Scongerella family!Carol Bader coming in third! :-[Crap Thunder
 
When I worked in Mississippi, I *WISH* we had Prize Pigs. Hell, I tried to give away a CD once for over 30 minutes no matter how easy I made it.By the end, I just said "Call me and you'll win"... nothing then even... That would be a sad thought, unless you realized what shape that station is in today...
 
Okay perhaps I was a little out of line. Working in this market we do have those who come to every gig and "glom" everything they can, I see the other side of it now ;D
I dont dislike these folks but I think that when all you have to do is follow radio stations around for t-shirts all weekend, that's kinda sick!


EAT LIGHTING

CRAP THUNDER
 
Prize pigs, are just that...PIGS!! They spend their whole day going up and down the dial trying to win everthing they can from every station they can. They want it all for themselves, regardless of what the prize was. It would be one thing if they just stayed loyal to their favorite station, but they don't. When I was at 'HCN in Hartford we had a professional prize pig who won soooooo much stuff from us it wasn't funny. She would have several phones lines working from her house and she would jam our phone lines. She would also do this with every other station in Hartford. We all knew her...Most stations have a 30 day, or 60 day for big ticket items, win policy. You asked her ( them) if they won in the last 30 days and they always say "No, I've never won anything before" God, I hate it when they lie. Eventually what I would do is when I answered , before I'd tell them that they were the 9th caller, I'd ask their name first. If I recognized it, I would simply hang up or tell them they were the 8th caller, then move on and get the next caller. Most stations don't sweat the small stuff like tickets to a local show, but when they're winning Jet Skiis and a week later they get the vacation to wherever, well that shit ain't right. Sounds like you other two guys weren't wishing for prize pigs, but listeners.
 
I know every present-day PP in Suffolk, but I prefer to call them "regulars".

One funny story from earlier this summer . . . a "monsoon" strikes in the middle of an outdoor appearance. All of a sudden, some of the heaviest rain I have ever seen, paired with damaging winds, thunder and lightning. Co-worker and I are struggling to keep our equipment safe and dry. Each with a hand on our tent to keep it grounded, puddles forming around us, rain flying from all angles. We are both drenched from head to toe, holding umbrellas over our equipment as we quickly load it into our van. All of our promotional materials are packed up and the table is soaked. I assure you the situation was a total mess.

Couple pulls up in the parking lot, rolls down the window and asks if one of us will bring them a pen and entry blank to fill out for an enter to win contest that was being held that day.

So ridiculoous, that I smiled to myself and did just what they asked.

some people . . .
 
Howard Flam,
The Scongerella family!
Carol Bader.
Dara Anthony
and a older couple, who ae the worst, he bearded and thin and older, she just as old, thinner blonde hair and wears those wrap around sunglasses.

another two, older and fat, they show up just to eat they will eat dogfood if its free, we "doctored" up one of the ZITI plates, with hot sauce, that was pretty funny!
 
I decided to have fun with them. Working on the fringe of a major market and being pretty good at trivia, I told callers they could contact me with questions asked on competing stations.

I helped a number of folks win prizes. It was fun!
 
CT , I know the older couple you are talking about, and they are the worst.
Dara Anthony was before my time but I've seen her once I think.

Who is the Scongerella family??
 
The Scongerella s are famous around the WALK WRCN WRIV and WLVG areas, east enders. The guy sits and waits with ten to fifteen radios on at once, it must be nuts, then he calls, and when he wins, gives someone in his familys address, so you could be on WRIV and have a winner in Floral Park, or Brooklyn.

That older couple when I was at a rock station would come down and that station made up prize bags, with the unseen prize inside, a good idea! No one knew what they were getting, except us, heh heh heh, we gave him the Scorpions best of cd, three weeks in a row.

The fat couple......I worked for a station, where one salesmen turned every event into a food event, he would bring down a bbq, drinks and these people would show up and eat MASSIVE amounts of food, ten hot dogs. eight bags of chips, all in one sitting, it was quite gross!

Dara cursed me out one time at an out door van hit, she wanted those tickets and wasnt leaving without them. When I gave them to the winner she went nuts, that was funny.

Another one we missed is Howard Flam, he is a legend! He has some sort of contraption that freezes the lines except for him, so he is caller 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 until whatever. He always wins!

The older couple I heard, won a gift certifiacte from an oldies station for food at a local restaurant and color copied the document and went back for months until the place caught on!!! Now thats bad!


CRAP THUNDER
 
How about the ones who COMPLAIN about the prize(s), i.e. "I don't want the (artist name here) CD, I want a (artist name whose CD we don't have) CD" or "A 6-day Carribean cruise? I can't get that much time off of work"...some people are just happy to get anything free (which is OK) but for Chrissake DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT THE DAMN PRIZES, it's embarrassing to everyone involved! I'm writing this from South Florida (moved down from LI), and I can assure you that this breed of porcine is found all around the USA, 'up and down the dial'...
 
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