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The Fresh Drive, Hellopeter and some very sad listeners
I absolutely love listening to DJ Fresh and his team on the afternoon drive on 5fm. I heard about the following complaint against the Fresh Drive on 5fm and I had to head over to Hellopeter and get the full story:
I always listen to 5fm when getting ready. On Wednesday 7 January 2009 I heard an advert to call in NOW to win tickets to Mafikizolo performing at Emperors Palace. I LOVE the group so called in immediately. I got through and spoke to the morning show (Koula and team) they said no- I should call the fresh drive it is their promotion.That's what I did and I actually got through again. Spoke to Fresh and said i'm calling regarding the Mafikizolo tickets. They commented that it was yesterday's promotion. I told them my whole story and said it is false advertising. (which it is)Fresh was very nice and said I should hold the line they will get me tickets. I spoke to Catherine- she took my details and said she'll call me back. She did on the day and said she can't get hold of the promoter but will call me the following day.I never received a phone call from them again.I was really looking forward to my first highlight for 2009 and I'm really dissapointed in the Fresh drive. It seems they only want to sound cool on air and don't follow up on on air promises.
The user on Hellopeter is alidek, she (I think) is a very sorry case. If all you have to do in your day is bitch and moan about calling in a day late for a FREE giveaway, receive personal contact from the on air DJ and members of his team and then still moan after they try and can't help repair your tardy entry to a competition then I am sorry but you need to catch a bloody wake up.Apparently Fresh was notified of the "problem". What this lovely lady decided to omit from her complaint was that Katherine - part of the Fresh Drive team - promised to send the lady CDs to make up for her disappointment. When Fresh found out about this woman's pettiness, he decided to revoke her CD pleasantries from the team and publicly told her off. Good on you Fresh.
Win with 5FM And Zoopy
5FM has just launched a new show hosted by Poppy on Saturdays. It's called the KFC Global Express and they have just started to get involved with the online market.Zoopy is the very first website to feature on the show with Poppy.What we need from you is to head on over to Zoopy, register and upload content tagging it with "5fm". It will then be pulled through to the Zoopy 5fm page where you'll be able to see the uploads and share them around.So head over to Zoopy now, listen to 5FM via streaming media and get registered and uploading!
Gareth Cliff reads this blog...
I am sure of it. I was listening to his show this morning on 5FM and what is he talking about? No, not this blog, but it may as well have been.He was talking about Chris Crocker, Britney and Seth Green, in just about the same order as I blogged about it a few days ago.I mean honestly, I hate it when "big media" comes on to a blog, likes the content and reproduces it without any linklove. Seriously who hasn't heard of linklove?OK, I am probably way off mark here, but Gareth, if you are reading this blog please leave a comment and tell me. And in future, reference your source!
5FM Goes Web 2.0 On Us
I am extremely impressed with 5fm. I have just signed up to Young Blood 5 (not not Colin Daniels' online moniker). The site, a social network, seems to be dedicated to promoting various causes that readers and users might have.I signed myself up as supporting the cause of "Changing Western Views Of Africa". I think it's a good cause to support cause we, as Africans, are going to do some seriously great things in the near future and immediate present.The site is sleek, flowing, easy to use and well designed.Have a look: