For The Best Dad Advice In Our Fathers Day Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Fun 107 dad advice contest is and who runs it

The For The Best Dad Advice In Our Fathers Day Contest is a seasonal public vote published by WFHN, a Massachusetts radio station that broadcasts under the Fun 107 brand on fun107.com. Instead of ranking restaurants, doctors or businesses the way most reader-choice ballots do, this one asks the audience to weigh in on dad wisdom itself. WFHN asked listeners to share the sayings their fathers handed down, the so-called Dad-isms, then picked its twelve favorites and printed them as the entries a supporter chooses among.

The reward side of the ballot is unusually concrete for a station contest. WFHN states that the winning piece of dad advice earns a gift basket and a certificate from the Charred Oak Tavern, a restaurant the station names on the vote page itself. That pairs the sentimental pull of the Father's Day theme with a tangible local prize, which gives supporters a specific outcome to rally around instead of a title alone.

The program at a glance

Everything on the ballot comes from the station's own publishing, so WFHN is both the organizer and the host, with no intermediate voting platform between the supporter and the contest page.

Which editions of the dad advice contest are confirmed

Two editions of this contest are confirmed: one in 2025 and one in 2026. Both cycles appear on the same fun107.com address, and the page for 2026 carries the vote for that year's Father's Day season. Because the two confirmed years sit back to back, the contest reads as a recurring seasonal fixture for WFHN rather than a one-off promotion, and a 2027 round is the natural next expectation if the station keeps the series going.

What the station has not published matters as much for planning. WFHN prints no opening or closing date for the current round on the ballot page, so nothing in the contest text tells a supporter how long a round stays open. The page also carries no published rule on how many ballots one person may cast, and no eligibility text describing who may take part. Those omissions are worth knowing before anyone plans a week-long push: the contest's own page is the only place the station has committed its terms, and any schedule a supporter builds has to rest on what is printed there.

For the dates of the next round and any rule text the station adds, the live page is the authority. WFHN's contest listing on fun107.com is where a new season would appear first, since the station keeps the ballot on its own fun107.com domain and posts its promotions there.

How a supporter votes in the Father's Day contest today

Voting is a single action on the station's site. A supporter opens the contest page WFHN publishes at fun107.com, reads the twelve finalist sayings the station assembled from listener submissions, and chooses the one that deserves the gift basket and certificate from the Charred Oak Tavern. The station's own instruction is to vote for the dad advice you believe deserves to win, which makes the choice a judgment about the sayings themselves rather than about businesses or people.

Because the ballot lives on WFHN's domain, the supporter never leaves the station's environment. There is no outside balloting platform to register with and no separate service account tied to this contest. The station presents the vote as an open public ballot for its listeners, and its contest text names no login requirement, so the practical experience is arriving at the page, picking a saying and submitting the choice.

What the page does not specify is frequency. WFHN has published no rule on whether a supporter can come back and cast more, so anyone planning repeat participation should let the live page settle that question. The same applies to the round's close: the contest is tied to Father's Day, but the station prints no fixed end date, so the reliable habit is to vote when the round is announced and check the page afterward for results.

How this ballot sits beside the other Massachusetts votes

Massachusetts has a crowded field of community choice programs, and this contest occupies a distinct corner of it. The station's ballot, run by WFHN on fun107.com, is a themed single-subject vote about paternal sayings, while the neighbouring programs are broad reader-choice contests. Best of Boston and Best of Boston (Boston Magazine) rank businesses across whole cities, Best of Cape Cod covers the Cape, Central Mass Community Choice Awards serves the center of the state, BOSS - Best of South Shore covers the South Shore, and Boston.com Readers Say is the metro daily's own ballot.

Three differences follow from that. First, a vote here supports a saying and a memory rather than a merchant, so the persuasion a supporter does is personal rather than commercial. Second, the prize is a named local sponsor's gift basket and certificate from the Charred Oak Tavern, not a badge or a marketing title. Third, the organizer is a single radio station publishing on its own domain, so the contest's terms, its schedule and its results all live in one place under WFHN's control, unlike the multi-category platforms the region's larger programs run.

For readers comparing Massachusetts public votes, each of these programs answers to its own publisher and sets its own calendar, so a rule from one says nothing about the others.

Strengthening support for a saying on this ballot

Support in this contest works differently from a business ballot, because what wins is a line of paternal advice, not a storefront. The most effective outreach names the exact saying: a supporter who shares the specific Dad-ism, explains why it stuck, and asks people to pick it gives the vote a story. WFHN's own audience, Fun 107 listeners, is the pool the contest draws from, so reminders timed to the station's morning and afternoon shows reach the people most likely to vote.

On outside help, the station has published no rule for this contest about solicited or purchased votes, and no per-person limit appears on the ballot page. Anyone weighing a purchased boost can read the mechanics on our award votes page, and the legal and fairness questions are covered in our legality guide. What no outside help can supply is the emotional case for a saying, which is why the station's twelve finalists reward supporters who campaign on the words themselves. Since the round's close date is not printed, early and steady outreach beats a late push that risks landing after voting has ended.