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Re: Contest swipe
- Subject: Re: Contest swipe
- From: "Bill O'Neill" <billo@erols.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:19:32 -0400
>WFNX has run a contest called "Hide the Salami" twice over the past
two-three
>months. The name is intentionally risque; but the tie-in is that the
station
>hides an actual salami with a big prize attached to it.
<snip>
>This morning, Mix 98.5 ran the *exact same* contest- verbatim- to give away
>Barenaked Ladies/Hootie & the Blowfish tickets.
>
>Now, I know that stations often lift ideas from other stations, but I don't
>think I've ever seen anything this blatant.
>
>-TC
You'd think 'Breast of Chicken' but they didn't ask, right?
Bill O'Neill
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