For Our Final 250 James Avery Christmas Stories: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the James Avery Christmas Stories vote is and who runs it

For Our Final 250 James Avery Christmas Stories is a holiday promotion run by KVKI-FM, a radio station serving the Shreveport, Louisiana market. Most best-of ballots in the state are staged by magazines or community groups across dozens of business categories; this one is a single station feature built around Christmas storytelling. The ballot page states the premise plainly: it is time to pick a favorite James Avery Christmas Story of the week and award the final $250 James Avery gift.

No outside balloting platform is involved; the vote runs on 965kvki.com, the website the broadcaster operates itself. The ballot sits at 965kvki.com/vote-for-our-final-250-james-avery-christmas-stories-winner/, and the same domain carries the station's Shreveport/Bossier Area News plus promotions such as Bruno by the Bay, Hall Pass Cash, Seize the Deal and the Kidd Kraddick Morning Show. The station lists its studios on Westport Avenue in Shreveport, which anchors the promotion firmly in that market.

Facts at a glance

When the contest runs and which editions are confirmed

The promotion is a December fixture. Confirmed editions ran in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026, a run of six documented years that places the ballot among the longer-lived holiday votes on Louisiana radio. The earliest trace of the James Avery feature at KVKI goes back further: a related station page states that a James Avery contest ran from Monday, November 27, 2017 through Friday, December 22, 2017, so 2017 is the first year the promotion can be tied to the station.

The ballot documented for the 2018 edition carried a December 21, 2018 publication date, which fits the pattern of a story vote running through the second half of the month. Beyond that, the calendar is thin. KVKI has not printed the precise daily open and closing dates for the December window, a cap on repeat picks, or who may take part; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

What that leaves a supporter with is simple: look for the feature in December, treat the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas as the likely span, and read the dates off the station's page when the round goes live rather than assuming the schedule carries over from the previous year.

How a supporter casts a vote in the story poll

The mechanic is a straightforward public pick. The ballot page instructs visitors to choose their favorite James Avery Christmas Story of the week, meaning the stories arrive in weekly batches and the supporter selects among the entries currently posted. A related KVKI page describes the shape of the feature in more detail: all five stories are put to a vote, and the winner receives an additional $250 James Avery Artisan Jewelry gift, which matches the final award the ballot page announces.

Because the vote runs story by story, a supporter's action is not a single annual submission. Each week of the holiday feature produces its own choice, and the station's page frames the December ballot as the closing round of that sequence, the one that decides which story takes the final $250 gift. The supporter opens the page on the station's own domain, reviews the entries, makes a selection and submits it through the same form.

No login requirement, no fee and no residency step appear anywhere on the published page. The only instruction the station gives is the pick itself, which keeps the barrier to participating about as low as a radio promotion can set it.

How this ballot sits beside other Louisiana vote programs

Louisiana's public votes cluster around two shapes. The large annual readers' choice ballots, each run by its own separate publisher, include Alexandria Community's Choice Awards, Bayou's Best Community's Choice Awards in Houma, Best of Baton Rouge, Best of SWLA, Best of New Orleans and Best of 225. Those programs open many categories at once, nominate businesses and hand out broad market recognition.

The KVKI promotion answers a different question. It names a single story winner rather than a roster of businesses, it is attached to a radio feature rather than a publication's annual survey, and it pays out one $250 James Avery gift instead of category prizes. A supporter who lands here from a statewide best-of ballot should expect a far smaller, more personal vote: five weekly stories, one holiday window, one award.

The practical difference for organizers and supporters alike is scale. Shreveport's station audience is the whole electorate, the December calendar compresses the whole feature into weeks, and momentum depends on listeners returning each time a new story goes up rather than on a business rallying customers across a months-long season.

Strengthening support for a story in the KVKI poll

Support in this ballot is won on timing. Because the stories compete week by week through December, the useful move for anyone backing an entry is to share the ballot link while that story's round is live, on the channels where the station's listeners already gather, and to remind people before the final pick closes. The station publishes no policy on outside assistance and no repeat voting rule, so nothing beyond the ballot's own instructions constrains how a supporter rallies friends.

Anyone weighing purchased support should start from what the organizer actually publishes, which here is only the weekly pick and the $250 James Avery gift, and read the service pages on this site, such as buying award votes, with the understanding that nothing published anywhere promises a result in a poll this small and this personal.