Best Ice Cream Grand Junction (kekbfm): How Voting Works & How to Win

What the KEKB ice cream ballot is and who counts the votes

Best Ice Cream Grand Junction is a food ballot run by 99.9 KEKB, the country station serving Grand Junction, Colorado. The station brands itself Today's Best Country and describes itself as Grand Junction country radio, and the vote lives at kekbfm.com/vote-best-ice-cream-grand-junction/, an address on the station's own domain. Because the ballot is published by the organizer itself, no outside balloting service stands between the supporter and the count: the vote happens where the station's news and lifestyle content already lives.

The page carries the headline Vote Now: Who Has the Best Ice Cream in Grand Junction? and repeats a simple invitation, let us know who has the best ice cream in Grand Junction by voting now. That framing puts the ballot in the best-of vertical: it is not a sweepstakes and not a ticketed event, but a public vote in which local ice cream spots compete for the town's title. The ballot sits inside the station's Lifestyles, Local News and Western Slope News sections, so the audience is the station's regular Western Slope readership rather than a national voting pool.

The station's site around the ballot is a working radio hub. It lists on-air personalities and syndicated programming including The Bobby Bones Show, Workdays With Jess, Taste of Country Nights, Wes Adams, Waylon Jordan and Tara, alongside station features such as Community Beat, Seize the Deal and the KEKB app. The ice cream vote is one piece of that local-engagement mix, and the table underneath gathers the fixed facts about it.

The July window, the confirmed editions and what KEKB leaves off the page

The dated facts for this ballot are short and specific. The station's page text states that voting for the best ice cream in Grand Junction ends on Sunday, July 7th at midnight, which places the live window in July for the cycle that text describes. That close date is the anchor for any supporter's calendar: a push that lands before that Sunday midnight is in the race, and anything after it is not.

The ballot is a recurring one. Confirmed edition years are 2019, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026, a run long enough to mark the ice cream vote as a returning July fixture on kekbfm.com, not a one-off promotion; the next cycle would fall in 2027. The page's Vote Now headline has carried across those years, which is what ties the editions together as the same program.

What the station does not print is just as relevant to a nominated shop. The page gives no opening date for the July window, and it carries no rules text on vote frequency, account requirements or eligibility; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. KEKB also publishes no separate nomination round for this ballot, no prize for the winning shop, and no platform round dates of the kind multi-stage contest services run. A shop that wants to plan around any of those facts has to work from the live page in the cycle it is voting in, because the station has not put them in writing anywhere else.

How a supporter votes for their ice cream spot today

The mechanic is the simplest shape a public vote takes. A supporter opens kekbfm.com/vote-best-ice-cream-grand-junction/, lands on the page headed Vote Now: Who Has the Best Ice Cream in Grand Junction?, and casts a vote for the shop they want to see win. The invitation the station prints, let us know who has the best ice cream in Grand Junction by voting now, is the whole instruction: there is no entry form, no nomination essay and no separate sign-up described on the page.

The page also speaks to the supporter whose shop is missing. The station's text addresses readers who do not see their ice cream spot on the ballot, which tells you the page presents a roster of spots to choose from and expects some Grand Junction favorites to be absent from it. What the station asks those readers to do next is cut off in the text available, so the handling of a missing shop is a live-page matter rather than something settled here.

Because the ballot lives on kekbfm.com itself, the supporter's experience is bounded by what the station's site does. No outside contest service sets round dates, entry limits or verification steps for this vote, and the station publishes no rules text of its own on frequency or eligibility. In practice that means the supporter's job is the vote itself plus the deadline: be on the page, pick the shop, and finish before Sunday, July 7th at midnight in the cycle the page describes. Everything else a supporter might ask, from daily-vote rules to whether a vote registers without an account, is answered only by the live ballot in front of them.

Where this ballot sits among Colorado's best-of votes

Colorado already holds a full slate of best-of votes, and the KEKB ice cream ballot is the Grand Junction entry in it. The state's other confirmed programs on this site are 5280's Top of the Town, the Westword Best of Denver, NOCO Style's Best of NOCO, Best of the Springs, Best of Summit County and Best of the Boat in Steamboat. Each of those answers to a different publisher in a different market, and none of them is a round of the KEKB ballot or shares its count.

What separates the KEKB program from those neighbors is its shape and its home. The Front Range and mountain ballots are broad readers'-choice surveys with many categories across a metro or a county, while the KEKB vote asks a single food question about a single town: who has the best ice cream in Grand Junction. It also runs on kekbfm.com itself instead of a dedicated contest platform, so a supporter reaches it through the radio station's site, alongside Local News and Western Slope News, rather than through a standalone balloting service.

For a nominated ice cream shop, that difference matters in two ways. The audience is the station's country-radio listenership on the Western Slope, a different pool from the Denver, northern Colorado, Springs, Summit County or Steamboat readerships, so support in this ballot has to come from Grand Junction itself. And because the program is a single-question vote with a July close rather than a months-long multi-category survey, the window for gathering that support is shorter, which makes the Sunday, July 7th at midnight deadline the practical center of any campaign here.

Strengthening support before the July close

A shop's position in this ballot rests on Grand Junction customers reaching the station's page and voting before the July 7th midnight close, so the useful work is local and deadline-driven. Put the ballot address where the people who already buy from you will see it: counter signage with the web address, a post on the channels your regulars follow, and a mention at the register during the window. Because the vote is a plain public ballot on kekbfm.com with no published frequency rule, the live page is the sole written authority on what a supporter can do in a day.

KEKB publishes no statement on outside help for this ballot; no organizer rule encouraging or restricting it exists in writing, so what the station enforces is visible only on the live page. If you are weighing paid support alongside organic outreach, read award votes first for how purchased support works in ballots of this kind, and keep the deadline, not the method, as the thing you plan around.