We're about a month into our new birthday prize giveaway, and there's a little bit of -- expected -- confusion.The fine folks at E-Z Party Kits are offering a stuffed balloon to one person each week, out of all of those that get their birthday or anniversary announced on the segment which airs weekdays at 6:50 a.m., and Saturdays (and Sundays) at 7:50 a.m.
We gather the names as they're called in each day, then select a winner randomly on the Saturday show.
The problem is, that a lot of times, the person who's having their birthday called in to the station is either not aware of this, or just don't happen to be listening when we announce the winner.
Since we have no real smooth way of getting contact information for each call that comes in -- which, while practical, would make for some really boring radio if we had to interrupt each call with gather phone numbers off-air, etc. -- it really ends up being the responsibility of those that made the initial call to get word to the winner that they have a prize waiting for them at E-Z Party Kits.
That's just the way it'll have to work, for now at least.
I'll do my best to announce the winner each week more frequently, as hopefully that will also help alert the winners of their prize.
We send E-Z Party Kits the winner's name each weekend as well, so if you want to call them to see if you are the winner for whatever week we're dealing with, you can call them at 815-828-5557.
By the way, our most recent winners have been Macy Rogers, Nicholas Mathias, Nicole Bennett, and Connor Shaw.
