The entries:
In 2005 I had an idea to find the worst radio commercial in North America. The idea took off and people from all over responded by sending us dozens of truly bad commercials to compete for the Sow’s Ear Award.
Hundreds of you cast your votes for the worst of the litter and three emerged from the heap as the “winners.”
Click here to listen to the radio commercials voted the worst three in North America in 2005.
The challenge:
We then challenged writers everywhere to turn Sow’s Ears into Silk Purses to win fame, glory and other stuff. And to show the world that even the worst radio commercials can be made into radio that works!
The victors:
For SelloffVacations.com: Sandra Ania wentsailing@rogers.com
Finalists: Big John Small, Gary Donnelly
Hear the production of Sandra’s winning Silk Purse rewrite
For Parrish Furniture: Big John Small fatradioguy@hotmail.com
Finalists: Rose Slaymaker, Sandra Ania
Hear the production of Big John’s winning Silk Purse rewrite
For Hudson River Rafting: Shawn Kohn Shawn@ScriptSkills.com
Finalists: Big John Small, Phil Bernstein
Hear the production of Shawn’s winning Silk Purse rewrite
The Sow’s Ear Award is a creation of the team of radio maniacs at Hedquist Productions, Inc., P. O. Box 1475, Fairfield, IA 52556 http://www.hedquist.com, 641-472-6708