Yeah thats funny shit.
Heres an article....
City DJ a great Canadian: listeners
Fans stack voting for CBC-TV program
Tue Oct 19 2004
By Brad Oswald
DR. Norman Bethune. Louis Riel. Hal Anderson?
Nestled right near the middle of the Top 50 list on Sunday's premiere of CBC-TV's The Greatest Canadian -- at No. 34 -- was Winnipeg morning DJ Hal Anderson, thanks to a very successful on-air campaign by local radio station Power 97 FM.
Last spring, the producers of The Greatest Canadian invited CBC viewers and listeners to offer up their choices for the "greatest-ever" list that was unveiled in Sunday's show. More than 140,000 votes were cast, and more than 10,000 different names were submitted.
According to Julie Dossett, the series' manager of communications and voting, more than half the votes cast were for the names on the Top 10 list that includes Tommy Douglas, Wayne Gretzky, Terry Fox, Dr. Frederick Banting, Lester B. Pearson, Alexander Graham Bell, Pierre Trudeau, David Suzuki, Sir John A. Macdonald and Don Cherry.
Some of the lesser nominees received only a single vote; others, like Anderson, received enough (several hundred, according to Dossett) to earn them a place in the Top 50.
"We weren't surprised," said Dossett. "Back in the spring, we were really just trying to get people to nominate whomever they think is the greatest Canadian, knowing full well that some people were going to try to have some fun with it. And that's great. We think it's a riot."
Power 97 program director Lochlin Cross acknowledged that Anderson's presence on the list is the result of a well-executed prank. "We had it up on our (Power 97) website and got more than 400,000 hits for him," Cross said yesterday.
"It was a stunt, but regardless of whether people went out and created new domain names to vote multiple times, it speaks well to the fan support for Power 97."
Heres an article....
City DJ a great Canadian: listeners
Fans stack voting for CBC-TV program
Tue Oct 19 2004
By Brad Oswald
DR. Norman Bethune. Louis Riel. Hal Anderson?
Nestled right near the middle of the Top 50 list on Sunday's premiere of CBC-TV's The Greatest Canadian -- at No. 34 -- was Winnipeg morning DJ Hal Anderson, thanks to a very successful on-air campaign by local radio station Power 97 FM.
Last spring, the producers of The Greatest Canadian invited CBC viewers and listeners to offer up their choices for the "greatest-ever" list that was unveiled in Sunday's show. More than 140,000 votes were cast, and more than 10,000 different names were submitted.
According to Julie Dossett, the series' manager of communications and voting, more than half the votes cast were for the names on the Top 10 list that includes Tommy Douglas, Wayne Gretzky, Terry Fox, Dr. Frederick Banting, Lester B. Pearson, Alexander Graham Bell, Pierre Trudeau, David Suzuki, Sir John A. Macdonald and Don Cherry.
Some of the lesser nominees received only a single vote; others, like Anderson, received enough (several hundred, according to Dossett) to earn them a place in the Top 50.
"We weren't surprised," said Dossett. "Back in the spring, we were really just trying to get people to nominate whomever they think is the greatest Canadian, knowing full well that some people were going to try to have some fun with it. And that's great. We think it's a riot."
Power 97 program director Lochlin Cross acknowledged that Anderson's presence on the list is the result of a well-executed prank. "We had it up on our (Power 97) website and got more than 400,000 hits for him," Cross said yesterday.
"It was a stunt, but regardless of whether people went out and created new domain names to vote multiple times, it speaks well to the fan support for Power 97."
cancowboy2001 said:It's an imperfect popularity contest.
#34 Hal Anderson is a Winnipeg DJ that got enough listeners to vote for him
