Here For Your Favorite K945 Dj Poll: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the K945 DJ Poll is and who runs it

Here For Your Favorite K945 Dj Poll is a fan ballot run by KRUF, a radio station broadcasting in Louisiana under the K945 brand. The program asks the station's audience a single, personal question: which one of the station's incredible DJs have earned your vote? That framing places it in the best-of vertical, where the thing being ranked is not a business or a dish but a personality the audience already hears every day. The ballot is a public-vote program, meaning the audience decides the outcome directly rather than a panel of judges.

The vote is served from the broadcaster's own domain. Unlike many Louisiana reader polls that hand the balloting to an outside contest platform, KRUF keeps this one in house at k945.com. That matters for two practical reasons. First, the rules, the dates and the list of names all come from one place, the station's own page, with no middleman platform publishing separate terms. Second, the ballot's traffic and its promotion live inside the station's own ecosystem, alongside features the site advertises such as the K945 app, the on-air schedule and the Shreveport/Bossier news feed that shares the station's homepage.

The market for the program is the station's home listening area. The broadcaster's site carries a Shreveport/Bossier news section, and the ballot sits inside that local brand rather than a statewide one. For a listener in that market, the poll is a chance to reward the voice heard during the drive-home hours; for anyone outside the signal area, it is a ballot whose meaning depends on knowing the station's lineup.

When the poll has run and what dates are published

This program's confirmed editions ran in 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The pattern is annual in character but not unbroken: 2022 and 2024 sit inside the span without a confirmed edition, so the poll has skipped years rather than running every single one. A reader who assumes the ballot appears each November without fail will be right most of the time, but the gaps are real and worth remembering when planning support for a particular DJ.

The voting period falls in November. That is the month the broadcaster's own ballot materials carry, and it makes the poll a fall fixture in the station's calendar, sitting alongside the on-air promotions the site runs through the year. What KRUF has not printed anywhere on its ballot is the exact calendar days when voting opens and shuts, the list of ballot categories, and any limit on repeat voting by a single listener or on who is eligible; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Two further gaps follow from that. The broadcaster has not published the year the poll first ran, so the 2020 edition is simply the earliest confirmed one rather than a proven starting point. And no round structure, such as a nomination phase before voting, is described on the ballot materials, which present the vote as already open when they were published. A supporter planning a push for a favorite DJ therefore has a firm month and a firm set of past years, and little else on paper. The station's own page, refreshed for each new edition, is the sole spot the missing details have ever appeared.

How a supporter votes on the K945 ballot today

Voting takes little explanation. The ballot page at k945.com poses the question of which of the station's DJs have earned the listener's vote, and announces that the polls are now open. The page then presents the broadcaster's on-air names as the choices. The supporter picks a favorite and submits the selection, and that single act is the whole of the published mechanic. There is no separate nomination form, no bracket and no written criteria on the ballot.

Because the vote form is served from the broadcaster's domain, its behavior is controlled entirely by KRUF rather than by a third-party voting platform. That has one immediate consequence for supporters: the fine-print questions that other polls answer on a platform's help pages are answered here, if at all, on the station's own page. Whether the form wants an email address, whether a sign-in is required, and whether one listener may vote more than once are all details the broadcaster has not explained in writing. The ballot itself, as it stands in any given edition, is the authority.

On timing, the only fixed point is the November period. The exact opening and closing days go unpublished, so anyone voting late in the month should check the ballot page directly rather than assuming the full month is available. The broadcaster's own promotion of the poll, including mentions on air during the schedule it publishes, is the practical signal that voting is live. Anyone organizing group support should build the plan around that page and its posted dates, not around a date remembered from a previous year's edition.

How this ballot sits beside Louisiana's other reader polls

Louisiana has a busy calendar of community choice ballots, and the K945 DJ Poll is unusual among them in two ways. It is served from the broadcaster's own domain rather than a shared contest platform, and the thing being ranked is a person on the station's payroll rather than a local business. Its neighbours in the state mostly take the opposite shape. The Alexandria Community's Choice Awards and the Bayou's Best Community's Choice Awards in Houma are business-facing ballots where shops, restaurants and service firms compete across many categories.

The metro titles work the same way at larger scale. Best of Baton Rouge, Best of SWLA and Best of New Orleans from Gambit each turn their city's readers into a ranking engine for local businesses, and Best of 225 from 225 Magazine does the same for the Baton Rouge area under its own masthead. Those programs answer to publishers with wide category lists; the K945 poll answers to one station with one question.

What separates this ballot for the people voting in it is focus. A business entering a citywide best-of ballot competes against dozens of peers and needs a broad customer base to vote. A fan backing a K945 DJ competes inside a small field of the broadcaster's on-air names, where a devoted listener bloc can carry real weight. The scale is smaller, the electorate is the station's audience, and the November period is fixed by the broadcaster rather than by a statewide publishing cycle, which makes this poll a tighter and more personal contest than its Louisiana neighbours.

Strengthening support for a K945 DJ without crossing the station

Because the ballot's mechanic is a direct pick from a short list of on-air names, effective support looks like audience mobilization: messages that send the station's own listeners to the vote form across the November period. A DJ's most useful asset is airtime, and a supporter close to the program can lean on the broadcaster's schedule features, the app and social posts to remind people the polls are open. KRUF prints nothing about outside voting help on its ballot, which cuts both ways: nothing forbids a push, and nothing tells a supporter where the station's tolerance ends.

That silence is a reason for care, not a permission slip. Organizers that do publish rules routinely delete votes they judge improper, and a ballot whose results feed a station's own branding is one an organizer watches closely. For a fuller treatment of the options and their limits, see our page on buying award votes, and weigh any purchase against the station's own ballot terms before acting.