[BC] Another dumb contest

[Ron Castro]

I understand the winner got a remote controlled model...but look on the 
bright side: winning a 'Hummer' could have had a whole different meaning 
than an SUV!

Bill Clinton would have first in line to enter...

Ron Castro
Chief Technical Officer
Results Radio, LLC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ernie Belanger" <armtx at mhcable.com>
To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [BC] Another dumb contest


> PLAY103.9 WIN A HUMMER!!!
> On April 1st (Fool's) we ran a contest...'Win A Hummer'.  Do you know how 
> many people actually participated thinkin' we were gonna give away an 
> actual hummer?  Not on this day!!!
>
>
>
> They even have pics of the "giveaway" winners on their site and are 
> bragging (see above)http://www.play1039.net/hummer.html#
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <WFIFeng at aol.com>
> To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 8:51 AM
> Subject: [BC] Another dumb contest
>
>
>> Here we go again!!
>>
>> http://www.radioink.com/headlineentry.asp?hid=129617&pt=inkheadlines
>>
>>
>> Woman Sues Over Radio Station's Toy Hummer April Fools' Prank
>>
>> A listener is suing a California radio station she said promised her a 
>> new
>> Hummer H2 and instead gave her a remote-controlled model as an April 
>> Fools'
>> Day prank.
>>
>> Shannon Castillo sued KBDS in Taft, CA, after it presented her the toy 
>> car
>> for winning a weeklong "contest" in which listeners were supposed to 
>> track
>> the number of miles two H2s traveled around town.
>>
>> She said she hired a baby sitter for her two children so she could arrive
>> at the station at 6 am on the day of the giveaway, April 1. After she
>> waited for two hours, she said, a deejay pulled up in the back of a truck
>> and handed her and another listener remote-controlled toy cars.
>>
>> "They put us on the radio all week long, just portraying how they 
>> couldn't
>> believe that we believed they were actually giving away real cars," said
>> Castillo. "I just couldn't believe that they would actually humiliate
>> someone like that."
>>
>> Willie...
>>
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