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March 28, 2017 5:03 pm  #1


Radio Veteran Reveals How His Station Cheated During On Air Contests

This is from Australia and I doubt the CRTC or the FCC in the U.S. would ever allow this kind of thing to go on here. But in this article from a local newspaper, an anonymous broadcaster explains how his station cheated at contests in such an elaborate way, it's hard to believe management would condone it. Yet he insists they were the ones behind the whole thing.

An interesting and eye-opening peek behind the curtain from Down Under.

And by the way, "shonky" means of low or dubious quality. Just in case you were wondering. 

Radio insider reveals the industry’s shonky secrets

You can watch the TV segment with the radio audio here.

 

March 28, 2017 5:44 pm  #2


Re: Radio Veteran Reveals How His Station Cheated During On Air Contests

Steer clear of shonky secrets by playing Kinsmen Super Bingo on CHEX Peterborough each Saturday afternoon

 

March 28, 2017 5:55 pm  #3


Re: Radio Veteran Reveals How His Station Cheated During On Air Contests

Shonky is also using a video switcher to billboard your radio story.


Madness takes its toll.  Please have exact change.
 
 

March 28, 2017 6:10 pm  #4


Re: Radio Veteran Reveals How His Station Cheated During On Air Contests

Wasn't Shonky a character voiced by Eddie Murphy in the Australian version of Shrek?

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March 28, 2017 6:19 pm  #5


Re: Radio Veteran Reveals How His Station Cheated During On Air Contests

I never cheated in a radio contest, but I felt cheated after being part of one.
 
A number of years ago, we were giving away tickets to a preview of a hot new movie and I remember that a TTC bus driver was the lucky caller and won the pair that I gave away. I was told to fill out a prize sheet, put the tickets into an envelope and leave them in the receptionist’s desk at the front of the station, so when the guy came in, they’d be right there. We only had so many and I think these may have been the final two ducats.   
 
This was at night, so I put them where they were supposed to be after the show was over and went home. The next day the winner came in to claim his prize. But when the woman at the front looked for them, she found the prize sheet – but discovered to her horror that someone (probably from inside the station but we never did find out) had stolen them. We had no replacements. So they offered the guy some alternate prize of a larger value, which he accepted with the station's abject apologies. 
 
This was a few years ago. Today I would imagine a lawsuit and a complaint to the CRTC would follow.

I never trusted anyone in that place after that and I always wondered who did it.
 
I just hope they hated the film. 

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March 28, 2017 6:34 pm  #6


Re: Radio Veteran Reveals How His Station Cheated During On Air Contests

that kind of thing never happens w. Kinsmen Bingo