Froggy 98 Cory's Fish Fry Face-Off: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Cory's Fish Fry Face-Off and who is behind it?

Froggy 98, the KFGE-FM country station branded "Today's Best Country!", runs the Cory's Fish Fry Face-Off as one of its community promotions. The station is based in Milford, Nebraska, and its signal reaches Lincoln, which is why the ballot celebrates a hyperlocal food tradition rather than a statewide ranking. Technically the program is a nomination-and-voting ballot, the configuration Second Street labels NominationAndVotingBallot: listeners first put forward their favorite local fish fries, and a voting stage then decides the standing of those nominees.

Second Street's own industry write-up describes what the KFGE-FM team built, a ballot that let the audience "first nominate their favorite local fish fries," and credits the design with turning a niche topic into revenue and engagement for the station. The same write-up lists the program among the platform company's award results, crediting Cory's Fish Fry Face-Off to KFGE-FM as a winning entry. That matters for readers weighing legitimacy: this is not an anonymous widget but a documented example in the platform vendor's own material.

Everything runs under the station's control at kfge-fm.secondstreetapp.com, the same address that carries the station's sweepstakes.

Which Face-Off dates are settled, and which are not?

The program appears in 2025 and 2026, both under the station's kfge-fm.secondstreetapp.com address. The 2026 ballot is the tightly dated one: it opened on February 17, 2026, closed on March 16, 2026, and its listing now reads closed. The 2025 cycle is present with its year attached, though that row prints no opening or closing dates of its own.

Taken together, the pair marks the Face-Off as an annual fixture in the station's late-winter stretch, and the natural reading is a 2027 return, but Froggy 98 has posted no announcement to that effect. Within the 2026 window the ballot carried both stages of its type: the nomination pass in which the audience put forward favorite local fish fries, followed by the voting pass that settled the standings.

What the published material leaves open is everything around the edges. The station has never printed who is eligible to take part, what the complete category lineup looks like, or what prize attaches to the winning fish fry; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does a supporter actually cast a Face-Off vote?

When a round is live the ballot sits at https://kfge-fm.secondstreetapp.com/Corys-Fish-Fry-Face-Off-2026, and the shorter path at https://kfge-fm.secondstreetapp.com/Corys-Fish-Fry-Face-Off has also carried the program. The address belongs to the station's own Second Street subdomain, so a browser on a phone opens it exactly as a desktop browser does; neither an app download nor an account creation step appears anywhere in the ballot materials.

The defining rule sits in the vote cadence. The KFGE-FM team set voting to once per day, a choice the platform's write-up credits with encouraging repeat visits and ongoing engagement. In practice, a supporter picks the fish fry they want to stand behind, submits that choice, and returns the following day to submit it again, building a nominee's total across many small daily actions rather than a single push.

Because every returning day counts, the rhythm favors campaigns that remind people consistently instead of once at the outset. Anyone visiting the address outside a live window sees the promotion's status rather than an open form, which is what the 2026 page displays now that its round has ended.

How does this ballot differ from Nebraska's other vote programs?

The Face-Off's closest neighbours here are the state's citywide surveys: Best of Omaha, Best of the Big O, Best of Grand Island, Best of Kearney, Lincoln's Choice Awards and the Lincoln Parade of Homes. Those programs canvass a whole metro or city across many consumer categories, usually through a publishing operation rather than a single radio station.

The Face-Off runs the opposite play: one topic, one organizer, one community of country-radio listeners, and a window measured in weeks instead of a season-long survey. Inside Froggy 98's own Second Street portfolio the contrast is just as sharp. The station's organization mostly hosts sweepstakes, among them ZAC BROWN BAND at Pinnacle Bank Arena, PENTATONIX at Pinnacle Bank Arena, WORKPLACE REWARDS, IMOMSOHARD at The Astro Theater, WHEELER WALKER JR. at Astro Theater, Win ROCA BERRY/SCARY FARM passes! and the 2026 Q4 $15,000 Sweepstakes.

Each of those is a luck draw; the fish fry ballot is the rare property in the lineup where the audience's collective vote, not chance, settles the result. That pairing of a niche subject with a genuine competitive ballot is what sets the program apart in the Nebraska field.

What is the smartest way to build support for a nominated fish fry?

The once-per-day cadence turns support into a habit rather than an event, so the strongest campaigns treat every day of the window as its own small election. A fish fry that ties voting to its regulars' breakfast, lunch or dinner routine will outpace a plea for a lone burst of sharing on day zero. Froggy 98 promotes the round on air and online while it runs, so sharing the ballot link when the station posts it keeps the request timely and familiar.

On outside assistance the picture is simply undocumented: KFGE has not printed a policy on paid vote services or automated tools, so anyone weighing that route should study the ballot's own terms when the next round opens. The site's guide to earning more votes online covers organic tactics that fit a small-community ballot of this shape, and award-ballot support is described separately for readers comparing options.