͢» TEXT Sweeps Comment Syntax
EDITORS PRIME CHOICE: How to assemble the ideal contest notification comment. Preferred “Text to” comment post method is:
CODEWORD ͢» #SMS# hour-of-notification(when relevant)
= =
Source(such as KTLA) link to promotion title - prize description and restrictions such as Age 18+<hr />
Example:
BALLZ ͢» 20357 5:22p
= =
KCBS 93.1 ‘Jack FM’ Big Game, bigger TVs! Listen weekdays to the kickoff of the commercial free 5pm hour for the daily keyword to text in to 20357 for your chance to win a 65" TCL TV!
where the big title of keyword ͢» moment occurs because the next line is exclusively “==”, you may bracket the keyword with two or three asterisks to bullet eye-catch with bold/italic as you see fit although not required. The ‘text to’ symbol is
͢» copy here and paste the html symbol codes or even find a nearby example comment to knick it from.
The SMS number links to
https://phone.fandom.com/wiki/[theSMS#] replace after the last / with contest phone number or Short Messaging System shortcode.
By including the time of announcement it helps greatly to establish a pattern of when to listen, to get a general sense of 20 minutes after, or don’t miss the top of the hour or teased until the end of the announcement period.
Then the ‘==’ on a line by itself forces what is above that to title up.
The host info should link to their general contest page. A PhatWallet template page can be found at https://www.angelfire.com/ca/disneywizard/pw/index.html#table the prize title should link to the host webpage of that specific contest or preferably the the webpage which presents the entry form.(which may be repeated in the description). Then Utilize that URL by adding it at the bottom, two blank lines and that raw URL will be interpreted by FW as an image link, they do all the work for you to combine the most relevant image on the page with a clickthrough for you.
You, as a valued contributor, are certainly encouraged to make that URL the clickthrough shortlink which provides you bonus entries just for spreading your good fortune!
UPDATE: Definition of Media which qualifies as topic source.
In order to mold a mission statement for this thread, I’ve been thinking along these lines:
@disneywizard said in Southern CA Radio, Television, Broadcast and Cable - Promotions, Contests, Sweepstakes, Trivia & Codewords w/ Discussion:
@disneywizard What was the horse and buggy of broadcast media?
Besides statues and graffiti? Why handbills of course! The brochure or pamphlet, manifesto, kiosk or billboard - it doesn’t have to be electronic or even on paper to qualify as broadcast media. National and international qualify for this topic as well so long as Southern California residents may participate. And the result must be genuine free stuff, so raffles don’t qualify because a ticket must be purchased to participate, though I may be so busy as to accidentally overlook CHOCwalk or Special Olympics as worthy fringe.
@ronzilla said in Southern CA Radio, Television, Broadcast and Cable - Promotions, Contests, Sweepstakes, Trivia & Codewords w/ Discussion:
@disneywizard YEP!! Back when a Nickle bought a Beer or Seltzer, and a Dime got a Burger//Sandwich, Many youngsters//Newspaper delivery people, were paid, given a stack of “Bills”, as in “Post no Bills” signs warned, and simply slathered them in Papier-mâché’ wheat paste mixed of water and flour, posted them, about every 40-50’ running & posting as fast as their legs would carry them, for Whatever $$ was the current rate. [by the piece typically paid a few cents for having posted one or two hundred, then run back, collect your fee, and ask for another stack. -wiz]
An order of magnitude increased percentage of the global population have now achieved literacy, even larger increase in multi-lingual folk cross our culture and it just keeps getting better every day, partly due to afordable mobile communications devices. The availability and speed of global travel creates for us today an incredibly small world. 90 minutes to circle the globe - what once was unimaginable is today setting records for longest duration on the ISS. Even less time for a thought - a tweet can spread across China from Hollywood faster the International Space Station can arrive overhead - it’s easy when the dullest mundane thought can travel at the speed of light like Trump on TicToc. That is also the pick your path adventure to problems. Every time you stop your car, begin moving again, turn a corner. climb a hill or even coast down it - you are pushing the Earth exactly one cars worth the other way. It may spare a raindrop here or there or cause one, but that accumulates, High winds, drought, floodwaters, an expedition to equatorial Africa in the Autumn frozen to death - those were the believe it or not Ripley’s of the past seen daily somewhere on the globe nowadays such as increasing ferocity of hurricanes. It’s a small world getting smaller, we are beyond the tipping point and have mortgaged our grandchildren’s future famines for utopia today. Just as any tool is neither evil nor good - that is in how you use it. A five pound rubber mallet can seat a mortise joint blemish free just as easily as blemish the mortal beside you free of his seat. So does air travel fuel commerce and Covid.
I can only pray the selfies of today’s social media become the self-actualized “helpies” - the enlightened of tomorrow - by growing up. Give up shaking it like a baby rattle and utilize it for the greater good as the tool social media is excellent at achieving - improving society. Drop the bragging, positioning, shaming of sophomoric self-aggrandizing. Instead find an excuse like a scrap pile of wood to begin utilizing the true power of the tool social media - “Say, I scored cut lumber discard, meet me at Tillie’s house, Tim and I will load his pickup, John’s got a nail gun, the rest of you bring your hammers, saws and gloves. By Monday she’ll have a much needed wheelchair ramp. K?” Shortspeak and emoticons qualify as multilingual btw. —(o=8> wiz.
https://news.sky.com/video/snow-blankets-sand-in-saharan-desert-12192108
I pray we may better be successful stewards of our spaceship: Earth.