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Why advertise on 1450 The Source?
• The Source offers cost effective advertising.
• The Source offers one of the highest percentages of exclusive weekly listeners in Frederick, MD.
• The Source provides our listeners with a powerful implied endorsement of our advertisers.
• The Source reaches a family and community oriented audience.

Facts about Radio You Should Know!

Radio reaches virtually every US consumer - and they are staying tuned in... 95% of Adults 18 and older listen to the radio for more than 3 hours every weekday and over 5 hours every weekend!

Radio listeners are listening in their cars - Radio travels with potential customers better than any other medium. In the car, radio reaches 81% of adults 18 and over every week.

Radio reaches customers everywhere...

Wherever your customers go, Radio goes with them. Among persons 12 and older Radio listening takes place in the following locations:

37% at home
42% in their car
21% at work & other places

Your customers spend more time with Radio - Every week, Adults 18 and older spend 22 hours and 30 minutes listening to Radio. That is over 1,170 hours per year!

Listeners get involved with Radio - Listeners choose to listen to stations that meet their unique lifestyle. No other medium allows you to establish an immediate, intimate relationship with consumers.

Radio is the #1 medium close to point of purchase - Radio reaches 63% of adults 25-54 within 1 hour of making their largest purchase of the day.

Radio is flexible and convenient - Copy changes can be made at a moments notice. New commercials can be produced quickly and efficiently. Radio offers the quickest turnaround time of any other medium.

Radio is cost-effective - Radio targets and motivates the specific customers you select... and does it more cost-efficiently than any other medium. Minimum production time and expense make it the most cost-efficient advertising medium in America today.

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The Source is currently looking for Volunteers to help board op for sporting events, and other talk programs.

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Contest Rules

1450 The Source Contest Rules

From time to time this station will conduct contests. The following rules, and specific contest rules, are available Monday through Friday during normal business hours at 1450 The Source, WTHU, 10 Radio Lane, Thurmont, MD 21788.

Winner must comply with all of the rules of the Contest, including, but not limited to, any restrictions on age and/or residency, and have not committed any fraud or deception in entering the Contest or claiming the Prize. The winner must further affirm and represent that he/she is not an employee or agent of the Station or any sponsor of the Contest and am not a member of the same household of any such employee or agent.

In consideration of the receipt of the Prize, the winner agrees to be solely responsible for any and all taxes and/or other fees, including, but not limited to, any federal state or local income taxes, that are or may become payable as a result of my participation in the Contest and/or receipt of the Prize. The winner further agrees to allow the Station and/or its designees the right to use my name, likeness, portrait, recorded voice and/or biographical material for an unlimited period of time in order to advertise, promote or publicize the Station and/or the products and services of any of its designees.

The Station is not the manufacturer or distributor of the Prize. With respect to any claims that I may now have, or that he/she may subsequently acquire, as a result of the possession and/or use of the Prize, he/she acknowledges and agrees that they shall look solely to others in the chain of production and distribution of the Prize to the exclusion of the Station and any sponsors of the Contest. The winner must acknowledge and agree that the station has not made any warranties of any kind with respect to the prize, including, but not limited to, any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Station hereby expressly disclaims any and all such warranties.

The winner must expressly release the station, and any sponsors of the contest, and their respective officers, directors, agents, parent companies, subsidiaries and employees, from any and all claims, demands and/or causes of action of any nature or kind whatsoever, whether presently known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen, that he/she may have, or that I subsequently acquire, as a result of my participation in the contest and/or receipt of the prize.

No Purchase Necessary - Void where prohibited. Employees of The Source, their affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, vendors and their immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of each are not eligible. The station is not responsible for telephone system failure or other inability of entrants to reach telephone entry line. This station is not responsible for lost, late or misdirected mail or for printing errors. No mechanically reproduced or completed entries will be accepted. Listeners are only eligible to win every 30 days. All federal, state and local taxes apply and are the sole responsibility of the winner.

We would be happy to hear from you.

10 Radio Lane, Thurmont, MD 21788 Directions

Phone: 301-271-2188 Fax: 301-271-2158

General Manager: Mike Betteridge Email Mike