Rules & Regulations

CONTEST RULES AND REGULATIONS

THE CHML “TALK SHOW IDOL 3” CONTEST

1. THE CONTEST AND THE CONTEST PERIOD

The CHML Talk Show Idol contest (the “Contest”) commences April 14, 2008, and concludes June 13, 2008 (the “Contest Period”).

2. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY

3. ELIGIBILITY

The Contest is open to residents of Ontario, who have attained the age of eighteen (18), but excluding employees and directors of CHML-AM (“CHML”), Corus Entertainment Inc. (“Corus”), any affiliate (as defined in the Canada Business Corporations Act) of CHML or Corus (the “Affiliates”), employees, officers and directors of All Seasons Travel, H Williams Jewelry and Rogers Communications Inc. (the “Sponsors”), as well as family members of any of the foregoing.

4. HOW TO ENTER

(a) Phase I – Submissions, April 14, 2008 – May 16, 2008

Listeners may visit the “Contests” section at www.900chml.com and complete a Contest registration form in full, including a submission explaining why they want to be the next “Talk Show Idol’.

(b) Phase II – Interviews, April 14, 2008 – May 16, 2008

From April 14, 2008 through May 16, 2008, Contest judges will select a minimum of four (4) and a maximum of ten (10) entrants to attend at CHML studios, 875 Main Street West, Hamilton, for an interview. Each week, four (4) entrants will be selected to advance to Phase III (the “Quarter-Finalists”).

All interviewees will be photographed, prior to which they must sign a standard form document acknowledging that CHML and Corus own all rights in the photograph created in connection with the Contest (the “Contest Material”) and that CHML and Corus are therefore entitled to use the Contest Material in any and all manner and media now known and hereafter created throughout the world in perpetuity without limitation, and in particular, on the CHML website.

(c) Phase III – The Competition, April 14, 2008 – June 13, 2008

Each of the four (4) Quarter-Finalists will be required to complete the following three (3) tasks:

1) Join Bob & Shiona at 7:50am live by phone to participate in a “Current Events Quiz”;

2) Prepare and record a 60-second editorial comment for rebroadcast on CHML; and
3) Join Scott Thompson live by phone at 4:50pm for ’60 Seconds of Straight Talk’, during which Scott will give the Quarter-Finalist one (1) word in connection with which he or she will be required to “ad lib” for 60 seconds;

Each Friday beginning on April 14, 2008 until June 13, 2008, the four (4) Semi-Finalists will be invited to return to the CHML studios between 1:00pm and 3:00pm to co-host a live ten (10) minute segment, during which each Semi-Finalist will be asked to prepare and deliver a two- minute editorial and to respond to phone calls. The audio segment and photograph of each Semi-Finalist will be posted on www.900chml.com during Phase III. Listeners will be invited to vote online for their favourite Semi-Finalist. The six (6) Quarter-Finalists who receive the most votes will continue to Phase IV (the “Semi-Finalists”).

(d) Phase IV – The Semi-Finals, Friday June 6

The 6 Semi-Finalists will be required to return to CHML studios (Date & Time, TBD) to host a live ten (10) minute segment, during which each Semi-Finalist will be asked to prepare and deliver a two- minute editorial and to respond to phone calls. The audio segment and photograph of each Semi-Finalist will be posted on www.900chml.com. Listeners may vote online for their favourite Semi-Finalist. The top two (2) Semi-Finalists who receive the most votes will continue to Phase V (the “Finalists”).

(e) Phase V – The Finals, Friday June 13

On a date TBD, the Finalists will be invited to return to the CHML studios to execute a 1 hour talk show LIVE on CHML, including guests, calls, editorial and other on-air tasks as determined by the Contest judges. Listeners may vote online for their favourite Finalist. The Finalist who receives the highest number of votes will win the opportunity to host, co-host or participate in a talk show on CHML (the “Grand Prize”). The Grand Prize winner will be required to attend at the CHML Studios for the live announcement on a date TBD, during the CHML Morning Show between 5:30 a.m. and 8:00 a.m.

5. THE GRAND PRIZE

The Grand Prize will include an opportunity to host, co-host or participate in a talk show on CHML, at a date and with a format to be determined by CHML as well as a trip for two (2) to Las Vegas, Nevada, and a Blackberry 8800. The five Finalists who do not win the Grand Prize will be awarded a gift certificate from H. WILLIAMS JEWELERS redeemable for a man’s or woman’s Citizen watch with a retail value of $295.00.

6. THE GRAND PRIZE VALUE

The approximate retail value of the Grand Prize is $2,000.


7. EDITORIAL CONTENT

All editorial submissions made by Contest entrants must be free from vulgar or sexually explicit language, expletives, suggestion of gratuitous violence and should, at all times, be compliant with the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council’s Code of Ethics (www.cbsc.ca/english/codes/cabethics/ethics.htm). A tape delay will be instituted in cases where Contest entrants have, in CHML and Corus’ sole discretion, violated any principle of the Code of Ethics or in cases where the editorial content is otherwise considered unsuitable for broadcast.

8. LIMITATION ON NUMBER OF ENTRIES PERMITTED

Only one entry per person per household is permitted each week. Multiple entries will be discarded but listeners can enter each week if they desire until they are offered an interview. Entries are subject to verification and will be declared invalid if they are reproduced, falsified, altered or tampered with in any way.

9. CHANCES OF WINNING

Chances of winning depend on the total number of registered Contest entrants.  CHML listeners will be invited to vote for their favourite contestant on a weekly basis on www.900chml.com . The results of listener voting will not be binding. Listener votes will only help Contest judges make their decisions, which will be made in their sole discretion. All decisions made by CHML Contest judges will be final.

10. NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES

Neither CHML nor Corus makes any representation or offers any warranty, express or implied, as to the quality or fitness of the Grand Prize. The Grand Prize winner understands and acknowledges that he or she may not seek reimbursement or pursue any legal or equitable remedy from CHML or Corus should the Grand Prize fail to be fit for its purpose or is in any way unsatisfactory to the Grand Prize winner.

11. DECLARATION AND RELEASE OF GRAND PRIZE WINNER

Before being awarded the Grand Prize, the Grand Prize winner and his or her travel companion, must sign a standard form confirming that by entering the Contest:

? he or she read, understood and accepted these rules and regulations;

? he or she understands that acceptance of the Grand Prize may involve danger and/or exposure to risks and hazards of both man-made and natural origin, whether arising from foreseeable or unforeseeable human error and negligence, and that, as a result, he or she may suffer damage to personal property, serious personal injury, illness or even death;

? he or she nevertheless freely and voluntarily agrees and does hereby assume any and all risks of personal injury, illness, death arising out of or connected with his or her participation in the Contest and winning the Grand Prize; and

? he or she releases CHML, Corus, the Affiliates, and all of their directors, officers, employees, agents as well as their respective advertising and promotional agencies (collectively, the “Releasees”) from any and all liability arising in connection with participation in the Contest and acceptance of the Grand Prize, including, without limitation, any financial, legal or moral responsibility or loss or personal injury including death or damage to or loss of property suffered or incurred or arising from participating in the Contest or accepting the Grand Prize, whether suffered by the Grand Prize winner or his or her guest, or by his or her heirs, administrators, personal representatives or executors, and notwithstanding that such injuries or losses may have been caused solely or partly by any act, omission, negligence or gross negligence of any or all of the Releasees; and

? he or she consents to the use of his or her name, city of residence, photograph, voice, likeness, image or any other aspect of his or her personality for any publicity and programming purposes related to the Contest, commercial or otherwise, in all media used by CHML and Corus and their promoters and their advertising and promotional agencies without any payment or compensation.

12. GRAND PRIZE TO BE ACCEPTED AS AWARDED

The Grand Prize must be accepted as awarded. No portion of the Grand Prize is transferable. The Grand Prize is not redeemable for cash and no substitute for any portion of the Grand Prize is offered. Should the Grand Prize winner be unable to claim the Grand Prize as awarded, his or her entry will be forfeited.

13. SUBSTITUTION OR CHANGE TO THE CONTEST

CHML and Corus and their respective advertising and promotional agencies reserve the right to substitute the Grand Prize or any component thereof, for those of approximately the same value and reserve the right to change the Contest rules or terminate or withdraw the Contest at any time, without prior notice.

14. OWNERSHIP OF ENTRIES

All entries shall become the property of CHML and Corus and their advertising and promotional agencies. The Releasees assume no responsibility for lost, stolen, destroyed or otherwise indecipherable entries due to any failure or technical malfunction of the telephone network, on-line computer systems of equipment, servers, access providers, software, poor reception, technical problems, failure of any email or submission or due to any other reason regardless of cause.

15. CONSENT TO USE OF PERSONALITY

By entering the Contest, each entrant, including the Grand Prize winner, consents to the use of his or her name, city of residence, photograph, voice, likeness, image or any other aspect of his or her personality for any publicity and programming purposes, commercial or otherwise, in all media used by CHML and Corus and their promoters and their advertising and promotional agencies, without any payment or compensation. The Grand Prize winner further agrees that his or her audio reaction may be used for on-air promotional purposes. The entrants understand and acknowledge that CHML may contact him or her on-air without prior knowledge as a result of his or her participation in the Contest.

16. CONSENT TO COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

By entering the Contest and voluntarily providing personal information including, but not limited to, name, address, city, email address, home and office telephone numbers (the “Registrant Information”), each Contest entrant grants permission to CHML and Corus to the collection and use of the Registrant Information for the exclusive purpose of administering the Contest and selecting the Grand Prize winner. No correspondence will take place between CHML, Corus and the entrants except in connection with the Contest and, in the case of the Grand Prize winner, as a result of entering the Contest and winning the Grand Prize.

17. NO DISRUPTION TO CONTEST

All Contest entrants agree to respect the entry process and the operation of the Contest as outlined in these rules and regulations. CHML or Corus may disqualify or ban from future contests any Contest entrant or person who CHML or Corus believes is tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest, to be acting in a disruptive or unsportsmanlike manner, or behaving with the intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any person associated with CHML or Corus. Any attempt to deliberately damage a website or to undermine the legitimate operation of a contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws, and should any such attempt be made by a Contest entrant or other person, CHML and Corus may seek damages or other relief from such Contest entrant or other person to the fullest extent permitted by law.

18. WHERE CONTEST RULES AND REGULATIONS AVAILABLE

These rules and regulations are available online at www.900chml.com.

19. COMPLIANCE WITH CONTEST RULES

All contestants agree to abide by the Contest Rules, which are subject to change at the sole discretion of CHML and Corus.

20. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS

This Contest is void where prohibited by law, and is subject to all federal, provincial, territorial and municipal laws and regulations of Canada and of each province, territory and municipality of Canada, respectively.