Re: Oldies, contest?

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 18:38:45 -0500 "Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net> writes:
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, other radio stations in the 
> metropolitan
> > >areas of the participating stations and members of their 
> immediate
> > families...
>snip<
> 
> > Is that legal?  On what grounds?
> 
> You're asking the wrong question.  A better question is: Why 
> wouldn't it be
> legal?  A private company can make any rules that they would like 
> for a
> contest, unless there is a law that limits their ability to make 
> such rules.
> I can't think of any law that would prohibit a company from keeping 
> their
> competitors from participating in a contest.  It seems like a pretty
> reasonable restriction to me.
> 
> -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine
> 

I remember an old timer in radio when I first got into he business
telling me his old war stories, one of them was the station he worked for
 used to give out the answers to competing radio station's contests so
their listeners could win without having to tune away, they actually
picked up listeners because word got out that they were giving out the
answers.
df