For Wiggles Top Dog Of The Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What Wiggle 100's Top Dog of the Week actually is

WHGL-FM, the Pennsylvania country station that broadcasts as Wiggle 100 under the banner "Today's Best Country and Your All Time Favorites," hands out For Wiggles Top Dog Of The Week as a public-vote award repeated every week of the season. Despite the dog in the name, the ballot does not judge pets. The station uses the Top Dog frame to spotlight the area's top high school athletes during the fall sports season, with the Troy Veterinary Clinic signing on as the program's sponsor.

The mechanic is simple and local. Each week the station announces the top four athletes, chosen from the schools its signal covers, and posts them as the week's nominees. Listeners then pick a favorite on the station's own website, at the Top Dog of the Week page. No outside balloting service sits in the middle: wiggle100.com runs the vote itself, which means the station's pages are the only place the rules and the nominee list appear.

Nominee announcements happen on air during the Wiggle Wake Up Show, the station's morning program, so a supporter who wants the earliest possible start on a Monday vote can hear the field named before the Noon voting window opens. For anyone building support for a nominee, the practical takeaway is that this is a radio-driven ballot: air coverage, a sponsor, a weekly four-person field, and a short online window.

Key facts at a glance

The dated record, editions and what the station has not printed

Two editions of the program are confirmed, in 2025 and 2026, which makes Top Dog of the Week a recurring fall fixture on the Wiggle 100 schedule year after year rather than a single-season experiment. The weekly cycle sits inside a season that runs between September and November, tracking the fall sports calendar the station covers. Within each season the program restarts every week: four new nominees, a fresh Monday Noon opening, and a Wednesday 11:59pm close.

The weekly rhythm is fixed and printed. Voting is open Mondays starting at Noon through Wednesdays at 11:59pm, and the station's page states a supporter can vote once per day during that window. Those two facts, the window and the daily limit, are the entire published rule set a supporter can act on today.

Beyond that, the station's ballot page is thin on printed detail. It does not publish the selection criteria it uses to name each week's top four, it does not print an eligibility policy for nominees, and the list of ballot categories is not laid out anywhere on the page a fan sees, so a supporter who needs that level of detail should confirm on the live ballot each cycle. It also does not state how weekly winners are tallied into any season-end recognition. None of those gaps are unusual for a small-market radio promotion, but they matter to anyone planning a serious support push: the only enforceable rules are the ones the station has actually written down, and everything else rests on the station's weekly judgment on air.

How a supporter votes for a Top Dog nominee this week

The literal sequence takes under five minutes and repeats across three days. Open the Top Dog of the Week page on wiggle100.com any time from Monday at Noon onward. The page lists the four athletes the station announced that week on the Wiggle Wake Up Show. Mark your choice among those four names and press the submit control on the page itself. Since wiggle100.com runs the vote directly, there is no separate platform login, no email verification loop printed on the page, and no form beyond the vote itself.

The once-per-day rule is where a determined supporter base earns its edge. A fan who votes Monday, returns Tuesday, and votes again before Wednesday at 11:59pm has tripled a single vote within the station's own printed limit. That is the cleanest lever a nominee's community has, and it favors organized reminders over a single social media post: a short message on Monday at Noon, a nudge Tuesday morning, and a last-call message Wednesday evening line up exactly with how the window actually behaves.

Timing discipline matters more here than in a month-long poll. The window is closed Thursday through Sunday morning, and votes outside it do not carry over, because each week brings a new field of four. Supporters of an athlete who wins one week cannot bank that effort; if the same nominee reappears in a later week's four, the support campaign starts again from zero on the next Monday at Noon.

How this weekly ballot sits beside Pennsylvania's other public votes

Pennsylvania's public-vote landscape on this site is dominated by annual readers' choice polls that run for weeks and cover whole regions. Best of Philly from Philadelphia Magazine, Best of the 'Burgh, and Best of the Lehigh Valley from Lehigh Valley Style each ask readers to pick favorites across a long category list. This program shares none of that shape. It is a radio-station award with a four-nominee field, a three-day window, and a fresh start every week of the fall season.

The closest neighbor in spirit is the Dachshund Rescue of Bucks County and NJ Cutie Pie Calendar Contest, which like Top Dog sits in the pet-flavored vertical even though both programs use the framing for broader community purposes. Regionally, the Best of Berks poll and the Bucks County and Chester County Readers' Choice round out the state's annual best-of slate.

What that comparison means in practice: a support strategy built for a long readers' poll does not transfer cleanly. There is no month to accumulate votes here, and the nominee field rotates weekly, so the only plan that fits is a tight, repeatable Monday-to-Wednesday push built on the once-per-day return the station allows.