Fort Wayne A-List: How Voting Works & How to Win

Fort Wayne A-List: one confirmed window, September 3 through October 14, 2026

Second Street's own listing settles the entire confirmed history of Fort Wayne A-List in a single stretch: the ballot opened September 3, 2026, and stays open through October 14, run as a combined nomination-and-voting page rather than two separate stages. WBYR-FM, on air as 98.9 The Bear, organizes the listing, and Federated Media's other Fort Wayne signals, WOWO, WMEE and K105, all point supporters to that same page rather than hosting a competing ballot of their own.

Outside that single window, what Second Street actually publishes goes quiet. No category roster sits anywhere on the listing, no per-voter limit is printed, and nothing states whether a second Fort Wayne A-List follows this one. A business weighing whether to submit a name is weighing a program with exactly one confirmed season behind it, not a decade of past winners to study.

This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle rather than treating the September-through-October window as a fixed yearly date.

Same Federated Media network, a different Fort Wayne ballot than CommunityVotes runs

Fort Wayne carries a second readers'-choice ballot besides this one, so it matters that Fort Wayne A-List answers only to Federated Media's own station cluster, never to the CommunityVotes network, which runs its own separate Fort Wayne program under a name that sounds similar at first glance.

A nomination submitted on 989thebear.secondstreetapp.com carries no weight toward CommunityVotes Fort Wayne Best Of's own results, and the reverse holds too; each keeps a separate ballot, a separate count, and its own rules.

Why the exact station address matters for a Fort Wayne submission

Because this ballot is only one confirmed season deep, no search habit has settled around it the way older programs sometimes attract. Typing 989thebear.secondstreetapp.com directly, or reaching it through WOWO, WMEE or K105, is a steadier route than trusting whichever "Fort Wayne best of" result a search engine happens to rank first.

One ballot among hundreds of listings on the same host

WBYR-FM's Second Street account carries 418 total promotions filed under the same organization, and the large majority of them are unrelated sweepstakes and giveaways rather than anything tied to Fort Wayne A-List. A supporter browsing the host directly, instead of following the exact link, could easily land on one of those other listings first.

Exactly one of those 418 entries is Fort Wayne A-List itself, running its single confirmed window from September 3 through October 14, 2026. None of the others carry any tie to Fort Wayne A-List's own results, whatever prize or drawing each one is separately running.

That volume is part of why going straight to 989thebear.secondstreetapp.com/Fort-Wayne-A-List-2026, or reaching it through WOWO, WMEE or K105, beats a general search or a link saved from a different promotion sharing the same host.

Working inside a first-edition window, not a settled yearly pattern

With one confirmed window, September 3 through October 14, 2026, the realistic plan is reaching real Fort Wayne-area supporters before that date rather than building around a history this program has not yet earned. This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

That limitation does not make outreach pointless. Asking actual Fort Wayne-area people to vote, repeatedly and directly, right up against October 14, is what actually moves a ballot this new, whatever shape a second season eventually takes. Second Street applies the same anti-fraud screening across every ballot it hosts, and a program still on its first confirmed season has far less cushion to absorb a fraud flag than one with ten prior seasons of settled results to fall back on.

A nomination reaching Fort Wayne A-List's ballot only opens the count; WBYR-FM alone certifies who wins once voting closes. Is buying votes legal sets out where an everyday support push ends and a riskier one begins, and award-vote campaign planning breaks down what that kind of push looks like for a ballot built the way Fort Wayne A-List is, first-edition caveat and all.