The Backstage Insider
Official Rules

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.  A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING.  VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

1. HOW TO ENTER

a. The Backstage Insider contest (“Contest”) will begin on April 2, 2007 at 8am Eastern Time (ET) and end on September 30, 2007 at approximately 7pm ET (“Contest Dates”).  WYCD located at 26555 Evergreen, Suite 675, Southfield, MI 48076 is the contest administrator (“ADMINISTRATOR”). Chevrolet Motor Division, General Motors Corporation located at 387 Shuman Boulevard, 150E  Naperville, IL 60563 is the contest sponsor (“SPONSOR”).

b. To participate in the contest, you may enter via one of the following two methods:

(1) Attend one of the “Backstage Insider” casting calls and record a one minute audition video.  There are two ways to attend a casting call:

(A) Starting on April 2, 2007 at 8am ET and ending on April 13th, 2007 at 6pm ET or while Golden Ticket supplies last, visit any participating Detroit area Chevy Dealer (see complete list at the end of these Official Rules) Monday-Friday to pick up a Golden Ticket available in the dealer showroom.  Bring your Golden Ticket to a special two-day casting call on Friday, April 13 and/or Saturday, April 14, 2007 from 10am-6pm ET at locations to be announced on WYCD and posted on www.WYCD.com.  Golden Ticket holders who are not selected for an audition on April 13 may try again on April 14 2007.  Contestants must arrive at the casting call location no later than the specified time.   Late arrivals will not be eligible.  Contestants will line up at the casting call location in the order of arrival and asked to complete a casting call application form.  On the application, enter your first name and last name, complete address, city, state, zip code, home telephone number, age and a valid email address.  No mechanically reproduced tickets will be accepted for auditions conducted on April 13 and/or April 14, 2007.  Holding a Golden Ticket does not guarantee an audition.  Auditions will take place on a first-come, first-served basis, and will end promptly at 6pm. ADMINISTRATOR will no longer accept contestant applications approximately 20 minutes prior to the end of each of the two-day casting calls. 

(B) Starting on April 17, 2007 at 7am ET and ending on April 30, 2007 at 9pm ET, ADMINISTRATOR will hold open casting calls.  Complete information on the open casting calls will be announced on WYCD and posted on www.WYCD.com on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at approximately 7am.  Casting Call locations will take place on Tuesday, April 24th Lawrence Technological University Buell Building Atrium 21000 W. 10 Mile, Southfield, MI  48075,  Thursday, April 26th at Coyote Joe’s 49440 Ryan, Shelby Township, MI from 9pm-10pm, Friday, April 27th at Diamondback Saloon 49345 I-94 Service Drive, Belleville, MI,  Saturday, April 28th at Macomb Mall 32233 Gratiot, Roseville, MI from 10am-3pm, Monday, April 30th at Belle Tire 15555 Eureka, Southgate, MI 48195 from 5pm-7pm.  Contestants must arrive at the casting call location no later than the specified time.   Late arrivals will not be eligible.  Contestants will line up at the casting call location in the order of arrival and asked to complete a casting call application form.  On the application, enter your first name and last name, complete address, city, state, zip code, home telephone number, age and a valid email address. Attending a casting call does not guarantee an audition.  Auditions will take place on a first-come, first-served basis, and will end promptly at the announced closing time. ADMINISTRATOR will no longer accept contestant applications approximately 20 minutes prior to the end of each of the open casting calls.

    or

(2)  Submit a one-minute on-line audition video.  On-line audio videos may be uploaded to the WYCD website (www.WYCD.com) beginning April 17, 2007 at 8:00am ET and ending April 30, 2007 at 11:59pm ET.   Enter your first name and last name, complete address, city, state, zip code, home telephone number, age and a valid email address with your on-line submission.  Do not include (either visually or audibly) any personally identifiable information other than your name and where you are from as part of your on-line audition.  Any on-line audition disclosing improper personally identifiable information will be disqualified. 

c. ADMINISTRATOR is not responsible for entries not received due to difficulty accessing the internet, service outage or delays, computer difficulties or other technological glitches.  ADMINSTRATOR is also not responsible for lost, stolen, mangled, misdelivered, illegible, incomplete or late entries.  All entries become the property of ADMINISTRATOR and contestants give ADMINISTRATOR permission to use entries and recorded auditions for promotional purposes.  Contestant entries will not be returned.

d.  Contestants may submit only one audition video (either through a casting call or on-line). 
 
2. ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS

a. The contest is open to all WYCD listeners who are 21 years of age or older as of April 1, 2007 and who reside in the State of Michigan.  Employees of ADMINISTRATOR, its licensee, its corporate parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, its advertising agencies, participating sponsors/promotional partners, other radio stations in the Detroit metropolitan area and the members of their immediate families and/or households are ineligible to participate or win.

b. Listeners are eligible to win a WYCD contest only once every thirty (30) days.  Listeners are eligible to win a prize valued at $600.00 or more only once every six (6) months. Only one winner per household is permitted in any Station contest.

c. All casting call contestants must sign a release form and show a valid government-issued Michigan photo identification card in order to participate.    All on-line audition contestants must electronically sign a release at the time of entry, and all on-line audition contestants named a semi-finalist must show ADMINISTRATOR a valid government-issued Michigan photo identification card verifying eligibility in order to continue participation.

d. Contestants are required to provide truthful information and the ADMINISTRATOR will reject and delete any entry that it discovers to be false or fraudulent.  ADMINISTRATOR will disqualify any entry from individuals who do not meet the eligibility requirements, and ADMINISTRATOR will also delete any on-line entry received from persons under the age of 13 in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. 

3. WINNER SELECTION AND NOTIFICATION
 
a. Decisions of ADMINISTRATOR with respect to the contest are final.

b. SEMI-FINALIST AND FINALIST SELECTION.  Each “Backstage Insider” casting call and on-line audition participant will be asked to answer the same three (3) questions prior to their one-minute audition:  their name, where they are from, and why they want to be The Backstage Insider.  Participants will have one minute to respond to the questions, and any portion of the response that exceeds one minute will be ignored for judging purposes.  All responses must be recorded.  On May 1, 2007, a team of judges selected by ADMINISTRATOR will review each audition video and will select the twenty-five (25) semi-finalists whose auditions are deemed the best based on originality, creativity, likeability and showmanship.   Semi-finalists will be notified via telephone on May 24, 2007.  The audition videos of the twenty-five (25) semi-finalists will then be posted on www.WYCD.com from May 10, 2007 at 7am ET through May 21, 2007 at 11:59pm ET for online voting purposes (the “Voting Period”).  Website visitors will be able to vote for their favorite semi-finalist during the Voting Period.  Each semi-finalist will be awarded points based on the number of online votes they received.  The semi-finalist with the most votes will receive 25 points, the semi-finalist with the second highest number of votes will receive 24 points, and so on, until the semi-finalist with the fewest number of votes receives 1 point.  Points will also be awarded based on the ranking of the semi-finalists by the ADMINISTRATOR’S panel of judges using the same criteria used to select the 25 semi-finalists.  The semi-finalist ranked first by the judges will receive 25 points, the semi-finalist ranked second by the judges will receive 24 points, and so on, until the semi-finalist ranked last by the judges receives 1 point.  The five (5) semi-finalists with the highest combined number of points based on online voting and panel ranking will be named a finalist.  In the event of a tie between two or more semi-finalists, the semi-finalist with the higher number of points based on online voting will prevail.  A coin toss will break any remaining ties.  The five (5) finalists will be notified via phone on Friday, May 25, 2007  between 8am and 5pm ET.  Finalists who cannot be reached by Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 5:30pm ET or who cannot participate in the finals portion of this contest for any reason, will be disqualified and replaced by the semi-finalist who received the next highest number of votes.  Each of the five (5) finalists will be given one (1) concert to work backstage.   Concerts will be assigned to each finalist by random selection.  Any finalist unable to work his or her assigned concert for the entire day, or who shows up late for whatever reason will be disqualified.  Each concert will take place at one of the following venues -- DTE Energy Music Theater, The Palace of Auburn Hills or Meadowbrook Music Theatre -- between May -September 2007, with the exact locations and dates to be announced on WYCD and posted on www.WYCD.com.  Finalists will be videotaped as they work their selected concert, and will be assigned duties such as, but not necessarily limited to, obtaining items for artist dressing room, working production backstage, making transportation arrangements for artists, and assisting with artist soundcheck. 

c. GRAND PRIZE WINNER SELECTION.  After each finalist has worked their concert, video footage of their work will be posted on www.WYCD.com for final voting from September 4, 2007 at 7am ET to September 16, 2007 at 11:59pm ET (the “Final Voting Period”).   The video footage will be approximately five minutes in length, and will show the finalists performing  their backstage tasks at the concert.  ADMINISTRATOR will select the five minutes of video footage for each finalist and edit the footage for website posting as it deems appropriate in its sole discretion.  Website visitors will vote during the Final Voting Period on which finalist they believe did the best job working backstage at their concert.   Each finalist will be awarded points based on the number of online votes they received.  The finalist with the most votes will receive 5 points, the finalist with the second highest number of votes will receive 4 points, and so on, until the finalist with the fewest number of votes receives 1 point.  Points will also be awarded based on the ranking of the finalists by the ADMINISTRATOR’S panel of judges based on originality, creativity, likeability and showmanship. The finalist ranked first by the judges will receive 5 points, the finalist ranked second by the judges will receive 4 points, and so on, until the finalist ranked last by the judges receives 1 point.  The finalist with the highest combined number of points based on online voting and panel ranking will be the grand prize winner.  In the event of a tie between two or more finalists, the finalist with the higher number of points based on online voting will prevail.  A coin toss will break any remaining ties. 

d. The grand prize winner will be announced at the Season Finale party at a location and date (held during the week of September 17, 2007) to be announced on WYCD and posted on www.WYCD.com.   If the grand prize winner does not attend the Season Finale party for whatever reason, the winner will forfeit the grand prize and the finalist with the second highest number of points will be deemed the grand prize winner. 

e. ADMINISTRATOR is not responsible for difficulty accessing the internet, service outage or delays, computer difficulties or other technological glitches that may affect access to audition videos, finalist videos or on-line voting.

f. Winner must execute and return any required Affidavit of Eligibility/Release of Liability Prize Acceptance Form within (10) days of notification or prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner may be chosen by Judges from WYCD. 

4.  PRIZES

a. One (1) Grand Prize will be awarded.  Grand Prize consists of:

• $10,000 in the form of a check
• Season pass for two (2) people for all country music concerts held at The Palace of Auburn Hills (4 Championship Drive, Auburn Hills, MI), The DTE Energy Music Theater (7774 Sashabaw Road, Clarkston, MI 48348), and Meadowbrook Music Theater (3554 Walton Blvd, Rochester Hills, MI  48309) during the 2008 (ARV:  $4000) .  Winner will receive lawn seats to the Meadowbrook and DTE shows and upper level seats to The Palace shows.

Total ARV of Grand Prize:  $14,000

b. All prizes or prize certificates may be picked up at the office of the ADMINISTRATOR at the address below.  The winner will forfeit any prize or prize certificate not claimed within forty-five (45) days of winning.  In the event that a prize or prize certificate is mailed to the winner, it will be with the prior written consent of the winner and therefore, winner assumes the risk of its loss.  ADMINISTRATOR is not responsible for the safe arrival of a prize or prize certificate.  

c. There is no substitution, transfer, or cash equivalent for prizes, except that ADMINISTRATOR may, at its sole discretion, substitute prizes of comparable value or cash.  The prizes are expressly limited to the item(s) listed above and do not include taxes, gratuities or any other expenses.  Other restrictions may apply.

5.  CONDITIONS

a.  Payments of all income, federal, state and local taxes are solely the responsibility of the winner.  Winner may be required to sign an IRS Form W-9 or the equivalent.

b.  By participating in the contest, contestants agree to have their name, voice, and likeness used in any advertising or broadcasting material relating to this contest without additional financial or other compensation, and, where legal, to sign a publicity release confirming such consent prior to acceptance of the prize.

c.   Prior to awarding any prize or prize certificate, the ADMINISTRATOR in its sole discretion may require contest winners to sign a liability release, agreeing to hold the ADMINISTRATOR, its corporate licensee, its parent, subsidiary and affiliated corporations, and the officers, shareholders, directors, employees, agents and representatives of each of them harmless against any and all claims or liability arising directly or indirectly from the prize or participation in the contest.

d.  The ADMINISTRATOR reserves the right to make changes in the rules of the contest including the substitution of a prize or equivalent value, which will become effective upon announcement.  If due to circumstances beyond the control of the ADMINISTRATOR, any competition or prize-related event is delayed, rescheduled, postponed, cancelled, or has a change of venue, the ADMINISTRATOR reserves the right, but not the obligation, to cancel or modify the contest and shall not be required to award a substitute prize.

e.  The ADMINISTRATOR, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any person tampering with the entry process, the operation of the ADMINISTRATOR website or who is otherwise in violation of the rules.  The ADMINISTRATOR further reserves the right to cancel, terminate or modify the contest if it is not capable of completion as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention or technical failures of any sort.

f.   Failure to comply with the contest rules may result in a contestant’s disqualification solely at the discretion of the ADMINISTRATOR. 

g. ADMINISTRATOR is not responsible for typographical or other errors in the printing, the offering or the administration of the contest, or in the announcement of a prize.

h.  Copies of the written contest rules and list of winners (when complete) are available during regular business hours at the main studio of WYCD(FM), 26555 Evergreen Ste. 675, Southfield, MI  48076.

6.  INTERNET SWEEPSTAKES PRIVACY POLICY  By use of this website and by entering the contest, you agree to the WYCD Web Site Terms of Use Agreement and to the use of your personally information as described in the Privacy Policy located at www.WYCD.com.
PARTICIPATING CHEVY DEALERSHIPS

• Dick Genthe Chevrolet Inc. 15600 Eureka Rd. Southgate MI 48195
• Rodgers Chevrolet Inc., 23755 Allen Rd. Woodhaven, MI 48183
• Taylor Chevrolet Inc., 13801 S. Telegraph Rd. Taylor MI 48180
• Gordon Chevrolet Inc., 31850 Ford Rd. Garden City MI 48135
• Lou Larichie Chevrolet Inc., 40875 Plymouth Rd. Plymouth MI 48135
• Mark Chevrolet Inc., 332000 Michigan Ave Wayne MI 48184
• Tennyson Chevrolet Inc., 32570 Plymouth Rd. Livonia MI 48150
• George Matick Chevrolet Inc., 14001 Telegraph Rd. Redford Twp. MI 48239
• Les Stanford Chevrolet Inc., 21711 Michigan Ave. Dearborn MI 48124
• Wink Chevrolet Inc., 10700 Ford Rd. Dearborn MI 48126
• Bill Crispin Chevrolet Inc., 7112 E. Michigan Ave Saline, MI 48176
• Carnahan Chevrolet Inc., 770 James L Hart Pkwy Ypslanti MI 48197
• Suburban Chevrolet 3515 Jackson Rd. Ann Arbor MI 48103
• Faist-Diesing Buick 1500 S. Main St. Chelsea MI 48118
• Lafontaine Chevrolet 7120 Dexter-Ann Arbor Rd. Dexter MI 48130
• Randy Wise Chevrolet 1250 Dexter St. Milan MI 48103
• Champion Chevrolet Inc. 5000 E Grand River Howell MI 48843
• Waldecker Chevrolet 880 S. Grand Fowlerville MI 48836
• Holiday Center Inc. 30250 Grand River Farmington Hills MI 48836
• Jack Cauley Chevrolet Inc. 7020 Orchard Lake Rd. West Bloomfield MI 48322
• Joe Panian Chevrolet Inc. 28111 Telegraph Rd. Southfield MI 48034
• Marty Feldman Chevrolet Inc. 42355 Grand River Novi MI 48375
• Bill Fox Chevrolet Inc., 725 S. Rochester Rochester Hills MI 48307
• Matthews-Hargreaves Chevrolet 2000 E. 12 mile Rd. Royal Oak MI 48067
• Mike Savoie Chevrolet Inc. 1900 W. Maple Rd. Troy MI 48084
• Hamilton Chevrolet Inc. 5800 E. 14 mile Warren MI 48092
• John Bowman Chevrolet Inc., 6750 Dixie Hwy. Clarkston MI 48346
• Moran Chevrolet Inc., 35500 S. Gratiot Ave Clinton Twp MI 48035
• Buff Whelan Chevrolet Inc., 40445 Van Dyke Ave Sterling Heights MI 48313
• Ed Rinke Chevrolet Co. 26125 M-53 Center Line MI 48015
• Merollis Chevrolet 21800 Gratiot Ave Eastpointe MI 48021
• Dick Morris Chevrolet 2199 Haggerty Rd Walled Lake MI 48390
• Jay Chevrolet Inc., 3372 W Highland Rd Highland MI 48357
• Liberty Chevrolet 30400 Lyon Center Drive East New Hudson MI 48165
• Lunghamer GMC 5825 Highland Rd Waterford MI 48327
• Heidebreicht Chevrolet 64200 Van Dyke Washington MI 48095
• Simms Chevrolet Motors 110 Ortonville Rd Ortonville MI 48462
• St. Clair Buick 1250 Carney Dr. St. Clair MI 48079
• Michael Chevrolet 29425 23 Mile Rd Chesterfield MI 48047
• Milnes Chevrolet, Pontiac Inc., 1900 S. Cedar St. Imlay City MI 48444
• Vanover Chevrolet Inc. 4281 24th Ave Fort Gratiot MI 48059
• James Martin Buick 6250 Woodward Ave Detroit MI 48202
• Jefferson Chevrolet Co. 2130 E. Jefferson Detroit MI 48207
• Wally Edgar Buick 3805 Lapeer Rd. (M24) Lake Orion MI 48360