WWAY Viewers Choice Awards: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the WWAY Viewers Choice Awards is, and who runs it

WWAYTV3 runs the WWAY Viewers Choice Awards, a viewers'-choice vote built around the North Carolina broadcast station's own audience rather than a magazine's or newspaper's readership. The ballot itself lives at wwaytv3.com/viewerschoiceawards/, reached through a "Vote Now" link in WWAY's own navigation, listed there alongside other recurring features the station runs, such as Teacher Of The Month and Pet Pals.

Being a television station rather than a print publisher sets WWAYTV3 apart from most of the other North Carolina best-of programs reviewed here. The current page carries the title "2026 Viewers Choice Awards" under WWAYTV3's own copyright, marking the cycle presently posted at that address.

Nothing in what WWAYTV3 publishes ties the Viewers Choice Awards to one city or county; the station's own name, not a place name, is the boundary the page actually sets. A supporter looking for a local angle beyond North Carolina will not find one printed on the ballot page itself.

That distinction shapes what a supporter should expect elsewhere too. A newspaper or magazine ballot in North Carolina typically pairs its vote with a printed results issue; WWAYTV3 keeps the Viewers Choice Awards inside its own site structure instead, with no separate publication described anywhere on the page.

Five editions, real gaps, and what still isn't printed

Five separate years confirm the WWAY Viewers Choice Awards to date, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026, each one landing on the same wwaytv3.com/viewerschoiceawards/ address rather than a page rebuilt from scratch for every cycle. 2022 and 2024 do not appear among those years, so the history reads as a station returning to the same vote periodically, not as an unbroken yearly fixture.

What five editions have not produced is a published category roster, a per-voter limit, or an opening and closing date for the cycle now live; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. WWAYTV3 runs the vote directly rather than through a third-party balloting service, so no separate platform listing fills in those particulars either.

Five confirmed cycles is more history than a first-year program carries, yet the missing years alongside the missing categories and limit make this a case for checking the current page directly rather than assuming last cycle's shape holds. WWAYTV3's own pattern so far is publishing anew each time, not maintaining a fixed template a supporter could rely on in advance.

How a supporter backs a nominee on WWAY's own ballot

The Viewers Choice Awards vote sits at wwaytv3.com/viewerschoiceawards/, one stop inside WWAY's own site alongside its news, weather, and community segments, reached by the "Vote Now" link in the station's navigation. Backing a business or nominee starts there, on WWAYTV3's own address, not on a separate voting app.

A browsable category list is not part of what loads there ahead of time, and neither is a printed rule capping how often one visitor may return across the window. WWAYTV3 has kept both details off the page through all five confirmed editions, so a first-time supporter and a five-time supporter are working from the same amount of printed guidance.

For the current cycle, wwaytv3.com/viewerschoiceawards/ is the only address that matters, and whatever it shows once the vote is fully live outranks any assumption carried over from a prior WWAY cycle or a different North Carolina station's own ballot.

Where WWAY Viewers Choice Awards sits beside North Carolina's other public-vote ballots

WWAYTV3 is not the only North Carolina outlet running a public vote, but it is the only broadcaster among the ballots sitting beside it here; the rest come from newspapers or regional magazines.

None of those six ballots share WWAYTV3's broadcast identity or its five-edition history, and nothing about a strong showing on the Viewers Choice Awards carries over to any of them. Each keeps a separate publisher, a separate schedule, and a separate set of results, so a business or nominee active on more than one is running unrelated campaigns, not one combined effort.

The broadcast format changes what shows up on the page too. Several of the print-run ballots beside it publish a companion results feature once voting ends; WWAYTV3's own page carries no mention of a matching results segment tied to the Viewers Choice Awards specifically.

Geography does not separate this ballot from its neighbours either. wwaytv3.com/viewerschoiceawards/ sets no county or city boundary of its own, leaving WWAYTV3's name as the only marker of coverage the page actually prints.

Building real support for the WWAY Viewers Choice Awards

A five-edition history does not tell a supporter what WWAYTV3 thinks about outside promotional help for the Viewers Choice Awards: nothing on wwaytv3.com/viewerschoiceawards/ states a position on bots, purchased votes, or coordinated pushes, unlike some public-vote programs that spell that rule out directly on the ballot page. Until the station says otherwise, that silence is worth reading as unresolved rather than as an invitation. The more grounded approach for the current cycle is sending real WWAY viewers to the address itself, then following up with them again later in the window rather than relying on a single push close to a deadline that is not yet published anywhere. Contest vote planning covers what outside help typically looks like for a station-run viewers' vote shaped like this one.