The thing to remember for the dj, is that not everyone calling even knows that a contest is occurring.

They need to get the correctly numbered caller due to contest related laws, from what I know. Generally at a major commercial station, the person handling the calls can whip through that many very quickly.

There are also people referred to in the biz as “prize hogs.” These are people who extremely regularly call in to win the prizes. Usually stations will implement rules to prevent any specific person from winning too often, as it ruins other people’s chances. There are people who seem to do nothing but spend time working to win radio prizes. And there are people who listen all the time and know lots about people who work at the station from all the casual comments that they make on the air over the years. It’s an interesting world.

If you are not the 96th caller, I’d wonder what you expect anyway. If they give you a nice long greeting and explanation of what happened, there may not be 96 callers by the time they get through them. They don’t exactly have 96 phone lines. Does what you hear sound rude? Yes. Should you expect more? That’s up to you. I wouldn’t expect anything, nor would I expect to win.

Allen probably knows all about that since he used to work at a radio station.

This has got to be the funniest comment in the history of ifitfeelsgooddoit.com. I’m glad you actually use your name now. Those anonymous comments didn’t follow the same quality standards.