.."Sorry but you are TOO OLD to win..."

[mleach]

Someone had posted on dcrtv.com about a Denver radio station who was giving away tickets on the air to a hip hop concert only to get a winner who was in his early 40's. The jock tells the "winner" that he was too old to win as he was the past the cut-off age of 35 so they took another caller and gave that listner the tickets since he was in the "legal range"..age 27.

Now I know many radio stations have rules in place in regards to children winning but adults? This is the first time I can remember a station or anybody else for that matter having a cut off age for adults...OK "American Idol" ;D

The poster on dcrtv asked if this practice was even legal but since DCRTV is so wrapped up in "Don & Mike", "WJFK' and more "Don & Mike"..well nobody bothered to answer the question that was asked. A friend of mine tried to explain to me that since hip hop music targets those under 30 or so ( true ) for the most part the concerts themselves don't allow anyone above 30 or so to enter so this could "explain" why that station had a cut-off age. For some reason I find that very very hard to believe.

 

[quadraphonic]

It was probably a setup. I wouldn't think it would be legal unless it was clearly established, or that the station would want to make a grown listener p.o.'ed like that. Not that it would be worth it to sue for the value of the tickets or whatever anyway.

 

[MarcB]

That is ridiculous. Most of the time my radio dial is set to HOT 93.7 (CBS's Hip-hop station in Hartford). Some of times the winner is older and they tell the DJ "My daughter is gonna be so happy that I won these tickets for her!"

 

[Silkie]

It's better than making up winners based on look-alikes and other assigned identities.  I know of a station that does that. Matter of fact they flaunt it and dare anyone to try to do anything about it. There's a story about "you are only one person, and there is nothing you can do about it.".

 

[mleach]

It was probably a setup. I wouldn't think it would be legal unless it was clearly established, or that the station would want to make a grown listener p.o.'ed like that. Not that it would be worth it to sue for the value of the tickets or whatever anyway.

You may very well be right..it could be a setup but then again the many of times I had visited Denver I have heard stories over the years about how some of their bars and nightclubs tend to deny certain people from entering based on their target group. Maybe that was the case here. A nightclub for the younger crowd was the venue for this concert. But then again using bars as an example may be a poor one since there are many of such places who even in this day and age still discrimate like the number of West Virginia country & western bars that I remember who would not allow blacks and hispanics to enter. No they don't advertise that "policy" out in the open but they do pull that old "we are a private club...do you have your membership card?" thing to blacks and others who they simply don't want to enter their club. Of course if you are white and "acceptable" to them..well they wont ask you that question since there really isn't such a thing as "membership cards" in the first place. Just an excuse to keep certain people out.

Yes the practice is wrong and shameful and it is illegal and despite the fact that there has been some violence and lawsuits involved with the practice..some of those bars are still doing it today. It does make one wonder exactly what year we are living in.

 

[quadraphonic]

It was probably a setup. I wouldn't think it would be legal unless it was clearly established, or that the station would want to make a grown listener p.o.'ed like that. Not that it would be worth it to sue for the value of the tickets or whatever anyway.

You may very well be right..it could be a setup but then again the many of times I had visited Denver I have heard stories over the years about how some of their bars and nightclubs tend to deny certain people from entering based on their target group. Maybe that was the case here. A nightclub for the younger crowd was the venue for this concert. But then again using bars as an example may be a poor one since there are many of such places who even in this day and age still discrimate like the number of West Virginia country & western bars that I remember who would not allow blacks and hispanics to enter. No they don't advertise that "policy" out in the open but they do pull that old "we are a private club...do you have your membership card?" thing to blacks and others who they simply don't want to enter their club. Of course if you are white and "acceptable" to them..well they wont ask you that question since there really isn't such a thing as "membership cards" in the first place. Just an excuse to keep certain people out.

Yes the practice is wrong and shameful and it is illegal and despite the fact that there has been some violence and lawsuits involved with the practice..some of those bars are still doing it today. It does make one wonder exactly what year we are living in.

Yeah, I'm not thinking the radio station would openly advertise that policy like they did, if it was a real policy, like the racist/classist kinds of bars and clubs that are out there hide their policies until they want to put it into effect.

It's not like a radio station giving away tickets can hide behind "members only" policies, or anything really. The bars and clubs doing it can only make the people who show up mad, you'd think the radio station would make more people mad than a bar would if they stated that policy out loud like that, or at least fear they might hit earshot of a bored attorney at the wrong time of the day.

That's what makes it smell like 'setup,' because it would be kind of brazen to do it out in the open. Not that no station would, but it just seems like most every station would rather "toe the line" than get sued. It would be way too easy to just hang up on that person and pick up the next caller 35 and under and pretend like that "old" person never called and you never talked to them and play the right age person's "winning" call. And DJ's ain't usually into doing more work than they have to.

Nor are they interested in anyone driving up to the station and getting their tickets or something of equal value. Besides, if someone had to look up the studio address, then googlemap how to get there, then drive there, imagine how fired up they'd be about them tickets the dj gave them, then stole away from them, with all that extra work involved.