WGBS Miami 1962 contest letter help

[maggiegrigs]

Anyone know what the entry for this contest might have been? (My picture won't post, so here's a link New item by Margaret Grigsby)

My boyfriend's grandad passed and we were going through his things to find this.

Sidebar: I am a former promotions manager (South Central Radio Group Knoxville, TN 2003-2009 and Mainline Broadcasting in Dayton, OH 2009-2010) and enjoyed reading about Ken Malden's career.

In my time, we lovingly referred to frequent winners as "prize pigs." Grandad here was a prize pig from way back! Entered EVERY contest and won quite a bit. He usually just filled out slips. I'm curious what he did to earn a win here.

 

[strangelove]

Cool! I wish I had some insight for you, but that's a pretty cool little piece of Miami radio history. The last I heard about Ken Malden was when he was doing sports updates at WQAM before he passed.

 

[Mike Sheridan]

Reading the letter it sounds like he submitted a picture of an unusual looking radio and won a transistor radio.

Flash forward to 1978 Y-100, 96X and WQAM are giving away $50, $100 and $1,000 bills to lucky callers. Meanwhle WGBS is giving away transistor radios to callers who say the artist they like best! Hmm, did they really think that would work??? Musicradio 7000 the NEW WGBS!