For Apple Jam (mega993online): How Voting Works & How to Win

What the For Apple Jam vote is and who runs it

For Apple Jam is the public vote that KMGW, a Yakima-market radio station, runs on its own site at mega993online.com ahead of the Apple Jam Battle of the Bands. The ballot asks listeners to vote for their favorite bands to play at Apple Jam on the Fourth of July. The event itself is held on July 4 at State Fair Park in Yakima, Washington, and the vote decides which acts share that stage.

The page sits inside the station's music and events coverage, filed under categories that include Concerts, Events, Featured, Holidays and Music News. The format is a plain listener poll: people pick a band, the station tallies the results, and the winning acts perform at the holiday show. This page treats the ballot as a best-of style contest in the business and events vertical, because what is being ranked is a roster of performers rather than a single merchant.

KMGW keeps the vote on its own web property, so the ballot, the rules and the results all live at mega993online.com rather than on an outside balloting platform. That matters for supporters: the address to bookmark is the station's own vote page, and any change to the format, the deadline or the band list will appear there before it appears anywhere else.

The dated record: editions, the voting close and what is unpublished

The station's vote page carries a 2019 address, and the ballot has run in 2019, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, which makes it an annual fixture in the station's calendar. The next cycle would be expected in 2027 if the pattern holds. The clearest dated fact on the ballot page is the close of voting: voting ends at midnight Wednesday, June 12, in the cycle the page covers. The event the vote feeds is fixed on the calendar side, since the Apple Jam Battle of the Bands is held July 4 at State Fair Park in Yakima.

Beyond those anchors, KMGW has not published an opening date for the current round, and no rules text covering repeat voting or eligibility travels with the ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The page also names no prize package for the winning bands and no round structure beyond the voting phase itself.

Readers who need the live cycle's opening and closing days should treat the station's own vote page as the authority. The station updates that page directly, the holiday event date stays constant, and the voting window shifts around it from cycle to cycle, so a date copied from an earlier edition is not a safe guide to the current one.

How a supporter votes today

Voting happens on the station's own site, so the sequence is short. A supporter opens the vote page at mega993online.com, reads the list of bands in the running for the Apple Jam stage, selects a favorite and submits the choice. The page is written as a direct ask, vote for your favorite bands to play at Apple Jam this Fourth of July, with no indication of an account requirement and no nomination round in front of the voting phase.

What the page does not spell out is any limit on how often the same person may vote, and no published daily return rule exists on that page. Anyone hoping to cast several votes should read whatever instructions the live ballot carries at the time rather than assume a pattern from other radio station polls.

Because the form sits on the station's own web property, there is no third-party platform login between the supporter and the submit button, and the station controls the form directly. If the format changes for a later cycle, whether the form moves, the deadline shifts or the band list is replaced, the vote page is where the change will show up first, so checking it before casting a vote is the reliable habit.

How this ballot sits beside Washington's other reader votes

For Apple Jam is a music ballot, which sets it apart from the general-interest readers choice contests that dominate the Washington best-of field. The state's larger programs, such as Best of Western Washington from KING 5 and Best of Snohomish County from the Everett Herald, ask readers to rank businesses across many categories. Cascade's Best, Best of 425 covering Bellevue and the Eastside, Best of Clark County from The Columbian, and the Seattle Medium's Best of the Best Northwest Readers' Choice all follow that same broad shape: many categories, many businesses, a long voting season.

For Apple Jam narrows the question to a single stage and a single night, the July 4 Battle of the Bands at State Fair Park in Yakima. That makes the electorate different too: the voters are radio listeners with an opinion on local music rather than shoppers ranking a dentist or a plumber. For a band, the competition is the rest of the lineup; for a supporter, the choice is simpler and the emotional stake is often higher, because a favorite local act either makes the bill or does not.

Links to the neighboring Washington programs are listed at the foot of this page for readers who want to compare ballots across the state.

Strengthening support for a band on this ballot

Support in this ballot comes down to turning out a band's own audience before the posted cutoff. Because the vote runs on the station's site with a simple pick-and-submit form, the practical moves are familiar: the band shares the vote link directly, asks fans at gigs, and posts reminders while the window is open.

KMGW prints no guidance on outside help alongside the ballot, so a band planning anything beyond asking its own fans should read the live page and any rules the station attaches to the current edition. The June 12 close in the covered cycle shows how tight the window can be, which rewards bands that start early rather than saving every push for the final hours.

Because the electorate is radio listeners in the Yakima market rather than a statewide readership, local channels carry unusual weight here: mentions at shows, posts in Yakima music groups, and word of mouth among people who already plan to attend the July 4 event at State Fair Park. Broader tactics that apply to public-vote ballots of every kind, from timing reminders to recruiting supporters beyond the immediate fan base, are laid out in our votes guide.