Radioi Promotion
Before I got into station sales and management, I did some pretty cool promotions.
I did the best Cardinal Baseball promotion that a Cardinal radio affiliate ever did for them. I had a contest, where the runners up, got two nights at the Adamsmark Hotel, and Cardinal tickets. The grand prize winner, I flew on USAIR to Montreal, put them up at a five star hotel, and they got tickets to the Cards/Expos game. The announcers that night, made comment of it. Two weeks later, the guys brother was stopped by a Highway Patrolman near Springfield. The Trooper sees the guys name, and that he is from Chaffee. Asks him if he is related to the guy who won the Cardinal trip to Montreal, he said, "it's my brother," and the Trooper let him go.
All that above to get to this point. I always wanted to do a radio promotion where I sent people to exotic locations. They could win a trip to PARIS... Paris, Tennessee. To LONDON.... London, Kentucky. To MOSCOW... Moscow, Idaho, to MEXICO... Mexico, Missouri, COPENHAGEN.... Copenhagen, New York, or, BERLIN....Berlin, Wisconsin. Never got to do it. The group owners found out that I could sell advertising and had a knack for going into a dead radio station, and make it the top performer in the market in less than a year. Never got to go back to promotions, or, being on the air.
As far as my own exotic travel, besides the all expense paid trip that I won to the RVN, I have been to Mexico, Missouri, and Paris, Tennessee.
Oh, yeah, there is a Pittsburg, Illinois, too.