Now For Who Should Win Buffalos Cutest Couples Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Cutest Couples vote is and who runs it

Buffalo's Cutest Couples Contest is a listener photo vote run by WBLK, the Buffalo urban radio station that broadcasts as Power 93.7 WBLK and calls itself The People's Station. The station is the organizer, the host and the promoter all at once: the ballot lives on wblk.com, a page the broadcaster publishes itself, with no standalone voting platform in between, and the audience it courts is the station's listening base across Western New York.

The program belongs to the photo-contest family, sitting alongside pet and family photo votes that radio stations and community publishers run to drive listener engagement. Its mechanic is a plain public vote: WBLK collects photos of couples from the community, posts them on a single ballot page, and asks listeners to choose the pairing that should win. The name the page carries is Vote Now for Who Should Win Buffalo's Cutest Couples Contest, which signals the ask directly.

Because the broadcaster hosts the vote on a domain it controls, everything a supporter needs to know appears, or fails to appear, in one place. The table below sets out the details WBLK has fixed for the program.

That combination of a single publisher, a single page and a February window is what defines the program. Anyone looking for a separate contest platform, a registration desk or a printed rulebook will not find one behind this ballot.

The dated record for this couples vote

The strongest dated fact on the ballot page is a close time: voting ended at noon on Friday, February 10 in the cycle the page describes. That places the contest entirely inside the first half of February, with the window shutting in the week before mid-month. The same printed text warned that voters face a cooling off period when PollDaddy has received too many votes from an IP address, tying the rule to that specific close date.

The program's own history reaches further back than its recent editions. In 2017, WBLK asked Western New York to submit photos for its Cutest Couples contest, with a chance to win tickets to the In It To Win It tour on February 11. That edition shows the shape the vote has kept: photo submissions from listeners, a public ballot on the station's site, and a prize tied to a station promotion.

The confirmed edition years for the program are 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent cycle logged is 2026, which makes 2027 the next expected window if the station keeps the pattern. What the station has not printed anywhere on the ballot page is the opening day, a category list, an eligibility rule for entering couples or a per-supporter vote limit for the current round; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How a supporter votes on the WBLK ballot

Voting is deliberately simple because the station keeps the whole contest on one page. A supporter opens the Vote Now page on wblk.com, reads through the couples photos that WBLK has collected from Western New York listeners, and marks the pairing they want to see win. There is no separate nomination round to find, no bracket to follow and no account to create as far as the page describes. The ask printed in the page title, vote now for who should win, is the entire instruction.

The one rule the page spells out is a technical one. Voters are subject to a cooling off period, occurring when PollDaddy has received too many votes from an IP address. In practical terms, a household or office network that votes heavily in a short span may see the ballot stop accepting clicks until the pause lifts. The page offers no appeal process and no exception, so spreading votes out rather than stacking them is the only behavior the printed text supports.

Because the contest runs in February and the printed close falls at noon on a Friday, February 10, timing matters more than volume. A vote cast after the cutoff earns nothing, and the page gives no indication that late votes are counted toward a future edition. Anyone supporting a couple should plan around the early-February window rather than assuming the ballot stays open through the month.

How this ballot sits beside other New York contests

Buffalo's Cutest Couples Contest occupies a narrow lane in New York's contest landscape: it is a couples photo vote run by a radio station for its own listeners. Neighboring programs in the state take different angles on the same idea of community photo voting. The Buffalo CARES Animal Rescue Calendar Contest turns pet photos into a rescue calendar, and the Chautauqua County Humane Society Hot Dogs Cool Cats Photo Contest does the same for animals in western New York's southern counties. Both are run by animal organizations rather than a broadcaster, and both sit in the same pet-photo family as the WBLK vote.

The other neighbors are reader's-choice surveys rather than photo votes. Best of Brooklyn, Best of Queens, The City's Best and Best of Hudson Valley let readers vote for businesses across whole boroughs or regions, with far larger category lists than a single couples ballot carries.

What makes the WBLK program different is concentration. One station, one market, one page and one short February window. There is no platform round system, no multi-week schedule and no promotion directory behind it, which means a supporter's entire opportunity lives inside a couple of weeks in early February on a single ballot page.

Strengthening support inside a short February window

A ballot that closes at noon in early February punishes late starts. The station's own mechanics reward steady support: the cooling off rule tied to PollDaddy blocks bursts of votes from one IP address, so a handful of votes from many different people on different networks beats a pile of clicks from a single household. Friends and family who want a couple to win should vote early in the window, from their own devices, and return on separate days rather than concentrating on deadline night.

Because WBLK has printed no eligibility rule or outside-help policy on the contest page, the honest position is that the station has said nothing on the subject, and nobody should assume a free pass. Tactics that work on public ballots generally are covered in our votes guide, which explains outreach that does not depend on any one contest's rules.

The last point is arithmetic. With a window that shuts in the first half of February, every day of delay is a meaningful share of the whole contest. Supporters who wait for the final weekend have already lost most of the runway the ballot gives them.