Now Your Top 10 Favorite Jersey Shore Love Stories: How Voting Works & How to Win

A radio audience picks its favorite Shore love story

Now Your Top 10 Favorite Jersey Shore Love Stories is a best-of public-vote feature run by WJLK-FM, the commercial radio station licensed to Asbury Park, New Jersey, and heard across the Jersey Shore on 94.3 FM under The Point branding. The ballot sits on 943thepoint.com, the station's own domain, not on an outside contest platform, which means the vote lives alongside the station's regular coverage rather than on a separate balloting service.

The format is a listener ranking. The station selected 25 of its favorite Jersey Shore love stories to compete, and the audience reads each story on the ballot page and votes for a favorite. The round now live is the top 10 stage, the point at which the field has been cut down and every remaining story is a finalist. The prize at stake is a $10k Custom Creation from Earth Treasures Fine Jewelers in Eatontown, a jeweler in the station's own market area.

What makes this ballot different from a typical best-of business poll is the subject matter. Instead of ranking restaurants or shops, listeners are ranking stories about couples and relationships tied to the Shore, which gives the vote a personal, community feel. The people voting are the station's own audience, and the stories come from that same community.

The December record and what the ballot does not print

The ballot has confirmed editions spanning 2020 through 2026, seven consecutive years, which places it firmly on the station's December calendar. The current cycle's voting closes on Sunday, December 20th at midnight, the one dated fact printed on the live page. The page frames the moment as the final stage, noting that the 25 competing stories were selected the week before.

Several facts sit outside that printed page. The exact day voting opened in this cycle is not shown, only the close. The full rules on repeat voting, whether one supporter's second visit counts, and who is eligible to claim the prize are not printed in advance; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The same applies to the nomination side: the page describes the 25 stories as already selected by the station, so any earlier submission round and its dates sit outside what the ballot itself shows.

For anyone following this ballot, the practical takeaway is straightforward. The close date is fixed and printed. Everything else about the window, the rules and the earlier rounds lives on the ballot page for the current year, and the station has not published those details anywhere in advance of the vote itself.

How a supporter votes on the ballot today

The steps are short. A supporter opens the voting page at 943thepoint.com, where the headline reads VOTE NOW: Your Top 10 Favorite Jersey Shore Love Stories. The page presents the finalist stories in full, and the station's instruction is explicit: read each Jersey Shore love story below and vote for your favorite. There is no separate platform, no third-party login and no nomination form at this stage; the vote happens right there on the ballot page.

Because the stories are personal rather than commercial, the reading step matters more than in a typical best-of poll. A vote cast without reading the story is a vote the station explicitly asks supporters not to make, since the ranking is meant to reflect which story resonates with the audience. The ballot closes on Sunday, December 20th at midnight, so the window is finite and the top 10 result follows directly from the votes cast before that point.

What the page does not state is any per-person limit. Whether a supporter may return and vote again, and how the station handles repeat submissions, is not printed on the ballot. A supporter who wants to help a story climb should treat the printed close time as the firm deadline and the page's own instructions as the full rule set for this round.

Where this ballot sits among New Jersey reader votes

The Jersey Shore market runs several public votes, and this one is unusual in two ways. First, it lives on 943thepoint.com, inside the station's regular site, rather than on a dedicated contest platform. Second, it ranks love stories rather than businesses, which puts it closer to a community feature than a commercial best-of guide.

Its neighbours in the state are mostly business rankings. The Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice covers the same Shore audience through a newspaper's reader poll, while the Best of Jersey Shore Contest ranks Shore businesses directly. Further afield, the Best of Bergen Community's Choice Awards and Bergen & Morris Top Dentists serve the northern part of the state, and the Best of New Jersey ballot takes a statewide view. The Jersey Bites Monmouth County Readers' Choice is the closest geographically, since Monmouth County holds both Asbury Park and Eatontown.

For a supporter, the difference matters: a vote here supports a couple's story and a prize from Earth Treasures Fine Jewelers, not a business category, and the voting window is a December sprint rather than a months-long season.

Strengthening support for a story on this ballot

Because this is a listener vote on personal stories, effective support looks like audience-building, not volume. The story that reaches the top 10 is the one the station's audience actually reads and connects with, so sharing the ballot link with people who know the couple, and asking them to read the story before voting, matches exactly what the station asks for. The ballot closes Sunday, December 20th at midnight, which makes timing the share more useful than repeating it.

On outside help, the station has not published any policy covering purchased votes or voting software on the ballot page, so there is no written rule to point to for this round. That silence cuts both ways: nothing authorizes it, and nothing forbids it in writing. Anyone considering it should read the live page first and weigh the station's ability to moderate its own ballot. The general background on how support services work in public votes, and what they can and cannot promise, is covered in our guide to getting more votes online.