Now For Owensboros Cathy Mullins In Nashville Predators Anthem Contest Video: How Voting Works & How to Win

A hometown radio appeal behind a local anthem finalist

The program now on the ballot is Vote for Owensboro's Cathy Mullins in Predators Anthem Contest, a public-vote music contest published by WBKR, a country radio station serving Owensboro, Kentucky. The vertical is a community shout-out rather than a business ranking: the station is rallying its audience behind one local resident, Cathy Mullins, an Owensboro music teacher the post introduces by name and hometown.

The stakes are unusually concrete for a station poll. WBKR's post states that Cathy Mullins is one of four finalists to sing the National Anthem at a Nashville Predators game next season. Four names, one anthem slot, and a listener vote deciding which finalist gets the microphone. The station closes the pitch with a direct appeal: "And you can vote for her now!"

WBKR runs the ballot inside its own website, and no third-party contest platform is named anywhere in the story. The live page sits at wbkr.com/vote-now-for-owensboros-cathy-mullins-in-nashville-predators-anthem-contest-video/, and the story is filed under Cathy Mullins' name in WBKR's tags so readers can find it from the station's site navigation while the round is open.

Facts at a glance

Which editions are confirmed and when this round ends

This is a repeating WBKR feature, not a single season's promotion. The station has published versions of the anthem vote in 2019 and 2021, then in each of 2022, 2023 and 2024, followed by 2025 and 2026, and the station's own follow-up story about Cathy Mullins traces her Predators contest history back to 2017. The run skips some years, so near-annual is the honest description rather than unbroken yearly staging.

The one firm date on the current page is the deadline: voting closes at 5pm CST on Thursday, October 5th, and the month named around it is October. WBKR's article does not state the day this round opened, and that opening date, like the dates of every future round, is something to confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The post also names no preliminary nomination stage and no later voting rounds, so the page as published reads as a single open vote toward the final deadline.

Three things the station leaves off the page deserve plain mention. The article prints no list of contest categories beyond the anthem slot itself. It sets out no limit on return visits by a single supporter and no eligibility terms for who may take part. And it names no dates for any preliminary or tie-break rounds. Each of those details lives, if anywhere, on the ballot WBKR publishes for the cycle in progress, which is why reading the live page before voting matters more here than on a longer, multi-stage contest.

How a supporter votes for Cathy Mullins right now

Voting here is a short, direct action. A supporter opens WBKR's post on wbkr.com, reads the introduction of Cathy Mullins of Owensboro as one of four finalists for the Predators anthem slot, and follows the VOTE HERE link the article places in its closing lines. That link is the doorway to the ballot itself, and the vote is cast directly on WBKR's domain, with no outside contest platform sitting in the middle.

Nothing on the page suggests a login, a fee, a registration form or an email confirmation is required. The pitch is a click and a name: find Cathy Mullins among the finalists and vote for her before the clock runs out. The station's own framing, "help her win", tells you the intended supporter action in five words.

What the page does not specify is how often one person may return. Some radio polls allow daily returns, others cap a supporter at one vote, and WBKR's article states neither. That makes the live ballot the only authority: if the station prints a daily-return instruction for the current cycle, follow it; if it prints nothing, the safe assumption is that the ballot itself will stop or flag repeat clicks on its side.

The clock matters as much as the click. The posted close is 5pm CST on Thursday, October 5th, which is a Central Time cutoff even though Owensboro sits in Kentucky. Anyone sharing the link should convert that deadline for supporters in the Eastern Time half of the state so no last-hour vote is lost to the clock.

Where this anthem vote sits among Kentucky public ballots

Kentucky's public-vote landscape is crowded with best-of rankings, and the WBKR anthem vote stands apart from every one of them. The state's big annual ballots include Best in Kentucky, Best of Lexington KY, Best of Bowling Green, Chevy Chaser Best of Lex, Best Places to Work in Kentucky and the BroadwayWorld Louisville Awards. Every one of those is a category contest: businesses, workplaces or productions compete across many fields at once.

The WBKR anthem vote inverts that shape. There is a single slot, a single performance, and a short list of four named finalists, one of whom is Cathy Mullins of Owensboro. The supporter is not browsing categories; the supporter is choosing a person. That concentrates the entire campaign into one push for one name before the 5pm CST Thursday, October 5th close, which is why the station's post reads as a rally rather than a directory.

The market difference matters too. The best-of ballots above spread across Louisville, Lexington and Bowling Green, while this vote is anchored in Owensboro and rides on the pride of one city's music teacher reaching a Nashville Predators game. The audience a finalist needs is a hometown audience, and the station that can deliver it is the one publishing the ballot.

For a reader comparing where an Owensboro supporter's effort goes furthest, this contest is the most concentrated target on the Kentucky list: four finalists, one deadline, and a vote that decides a real anthem performance next season.

Strengthening support for Cathy Mullins before the cutoff

Because this ballot is one name against three others on a single deadline, the campaigns that work are the ones that reach Owensboro quickly. The most natural move is sharing the WBKR post itself: the station's story already carries the hometown framing, the four-finalist stakes and the VOTE HERE link, so every share hands a new supporter everything needed to vote for Cathy Mullins in one click.

Local networks do the rest. A music teacher's students, their families, and the school community around Owensboro are exactly the audience WBKR's post is written for, and a personal request from someone who knows her converts far better than a repost from a stranger. Reminders matter because the vote closes at 5pm CST on Thursday, October 5th, and supporters who mean to vote later often miss a single afternoon cutoff.

On outside help: the ballot page states no special rules about organized voting support, so the organizer's own instructions govern whatever approach a supporter weighs. The station's ballot terms for the cycle in progress are the boundary, and reading them first is the only safe sequence. If you want a grounded look at what support options exist for small public votes generally, the votes guide covers the mechanics without promising outcomes this particular poll cannot promise.

No vote service can guarantee a win in a four-finalist radio poll; the result is decided by whoever reaches the most real supporters before the deadline.