Contest Rules

1. HOW TO ENTER: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. To enter online sweepstakes and contests, listeners register online at WONC.org.  If entries are permitted by other means (e.g., by telephone, mail or text message), the other permitted forms of entry will be indicated on our website and may periodically be included in on-air promotions on WONC 89.1FM. To enter on-air sweepstakes contests, listeners can enter as explained by the on-air talent (i.e., caller #10, etc.) on WONC 89.1FM. To enter Facebook sweepstakes and contests, visit our page at facebook.com/WONC891 to find and complete the entry form, which includes your name, email address, daytime telephone number. The Station Facebook contests and sweepstakes are not sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Facebook. By entering, you are providing the information to the Station, and not Facebook. To enter Twitter sweepstakes and contests, visit the WONC Twitter page at twitter.com/requestWONC. Limit one (1) entry per person per contest. The Station Twitter contests and sweepstakes are not sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Twitter. By entering, you are providing the information to the Station, and not Twitter. To enter text message sweepstakes and contests, listeners will be asked to use a text-messaging enabled wireless device to text a specified “keyword” to a specified phone number. You may be charged for each text message sent or received from your handset according to the terms and conditions of your Service Agreement with your wireless carrier. Your standard text and data rates may apply.  Each wireless carrier’s rate plan may vary, and entrants should contact their wireless carrier for information on text messaging rate plans and charges relating to your participation in the sweepstakes or contest.  Any text message form of entry into a sweepstakes or contest will be deemed made by the named account holder whose mobile phone number is assigned at the time of entry to the text-messaging enabled wireless device used to text the entry.  Each text message sent to or received by a service subscriber of any wireless carrier may incur a standard text messaging charge in accordance with that carrier’s (Terms and Conditions) applicable to such subscriber’s particular voice/data rate plan. Contact your wireless carrier for text messaging plan details. Deadlines for entering will typically be stated on the station website or announced by our on-air talent and may periodically be included in on-air promotions. Unless otherwise indicated on our website or as explained by our on-air talent or in our on-air promotions, there is a limit of one entry per contest per person; any person submitting more than one entry per contest may be disqualified. Station is not responsible for problems accessing the Station website or Facebook page, for problems sending a text, technical or atmospheric conditions that disrupt the completion of a website or text entry, or any other problems which may or may not result from station sweepstakes and contests. Note that online streams and mobile app streams of WONC’s programming are typically on a delayed basis, which may affect a webcast listener’s ability to participate in any contest or sweepstakes.  Station will not accept collect calls. Station is not responsible for telephone line unavailability, busy signals on the sweepstakes or contest line, operator interference, technical or atmospheric conditions that disrupt the completion of the phone call, telephone system malfunctions, or any other telephone problems or human error which may or may not result from any sweepstakes or contest.
2.  HOW WINNERS ARE CHOSEN AND NOTIFIED:  The criteria and process for selecting winners will typically be stated on WONC’s website, Facebook page, Twitter page, or periodically in on-air promotions.  Unless otherwise stated, winners will be notified by e-mail, text and/or phone call.  WONC 89.1FM, is not responsible if the winner is unable to be notified via the e-mail address or phone number submitted to enter the sweepstakes or contest.
3.  PRIZES:  The number of winners, the specific prizes to be awarded, and the values of prizes will typically be stated on WONC’s website and may be periodically included in on-air promotions.  Odds of winning will typically be dependent upon the number of eligible entries received.  The winner is responsible for all income taxes due as a result of his or her accepting a prize valued over $500, and an IRS Form 1099 may be submitted to applicable taxing authorities.
4. CLAIMING A PRIZE:  Unless otherwise stated on the station’s website, the General Manager, or by the station’s on-air talent, each winner must claim his/her prize in person. The prize must be claimed at WONC 89.1FM studios, 232 East Chicago Avenue, Naperville, IL 60540, by appointment with the General Manager, within thirty (30) days after the day he or she wins, unless otherwise instructed.  This is to verify that the prize is being given to the qualified winner.  Failure to comply with this deadline shall be deemed to be the winner’s forfeiture of his or her right to claim a prize.  Each winner must prove he or she is a qualified winner by presenting identification acceptable to WONC 89.1FM (e.g., state drivers’ license; state issued identification card; valid passport with address verification; or birth certificate with social security card and photo identification and address verification).  If a winner cannot prove he or she is a qualified winner, the prize will not be awarded.  All unclaimed prizes remain the property of Station.
5.  ELIGIBILITY: Individuals must be 18 years or older and legal residents of The United States to be eligible to participate and win prizes from WONC 89.1FM, on-line contests and promotions unless otherwise specified by the station for a specific sweepstakes or contest.  You are not eligible to enter our on-line contests if you or a member of your immediate family works for WONC 89.1FM, or any contest sponsor. PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING RESTRICTIONS:  In order to be eligible to win a prize in any station contest or sweepstakes, winners may win one minor prize within a 30-day period from WONC 89.1FM. All sweepstakes and contests are void where prohibited or otherwise restricted by law.
6.  CONTEST DEADLINES:  Contest deadlines will typically be stated on the station website and may be periodically included in on-air promotions. WONC 89.1FM is not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, undeliverable, incomplete or illegible entries.
7.  RELEASE; CONSENT TO USE LIKENESS, VOICE AND ADDRESS:  By participating in an on-line contest or on-air contest, you: (a) agree to release and indemnify WONC89.1FM and North Central College and any contest or sweepstakes sponsor(s) or prize providers (including their officers, directors, employees, subsidiaries, affiliates, and parent or related companies) from and against any and all liability, claims, damages and actions arising directly or indirectly out of or sustained in connection with the conduct of the promotion or contest, and the awarding, acceptance or use of any prize(s); and (b) consent to the use by WONC89.1FM, for promotional purposes only, of your on-line entry, your likeness, your voice, and/or your address (city and state) without any additional compensation.
8.  WINNER LIST:  Upon request, the station will provide you a list of winner(s) (name(s) only) from each of its contests.  In order to request such a list, please send a separate self-addressed, stamped envelope before the last day of the calendar month in which the prize is awarded, to Winners List (specify which sweepstakes or contest by name), WONC 89.1FM, 232 East Chicago Avenue, Naperville, IL 60540.  Requests for different sweepstakes or contests must be submitted separately.  Each request must identify the specific the sweepstakes or contest about which the inquiry relates; inquiries not containing this information will not receive a response.
9.  MISCELLANEOUS:  Decisions of WONC 89.1FM concerning any and all matters with respect to station sweepstakes or contest shall be final. WONC 89.1FM  reserves the right to change its contest rules, including these standard terms and conditions, without notice.  These standard terms and conditions may be changed or supplemented by contest-specific rules.  If there’s a discrepancy between these standard terms and conditions and any contest-specific rules that we may develop, the contest-specific rules shall control. WONC 89.1FM reserves the right to change the prize values at any time, or to substitute prizes of comparable value. Prizes are not transferable or exchangeable, and must be taken in their entirety. WONC 891.FM is not responsible for printing errors in the sweepstakes or contest materials, these rules, or any contest-specific rules that we may implement.  By entering our sweepstakes or contests, each contestant agrees to be bound by, and comply with, all official rules governing the sweepstakes or contest, including these standards terms and conditions or any contest-specific rules we may implement.  Some sweepstakes or contest prizes may be shared by the winner, or allow someone to accompany or share in the prize with the winner.  A pair of concert tickets would be an example of this.  For such prizes, by accompanying a winner or sharing in the prize with a winner, any winner’s guest(s) or accompanying party(ies) agree(s) to be bound by all official rules governing the sweepstakes or contest, including these standards terms and conditions or any sweepstakes-specific or contest-specific rules we may implement.

WONC 89.1FM is not responsible for event, performance or concert cancellations or re-scheduling. In the event a promoter and/or artist cancels a show/concert for any reason, WONC will not be held responsible nor will there be a substitution of prize. In the event a promoter and/or artist re-schedules a show/concert for any reason to a later date, winner’s tickets will be valid for new show date, and winner will not be able to substitute prize won for a different prize.