Game show in store: Needs contestants, prizes, questions

Christine Lee, Senior News Editor

February 11, 2014

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This Valentine’s Day, WCLH’s 2Dudes1 Broadcast will offer listeners a different kind of dating game. In fact, you could probably say this romance show is almost like a game.

On Valentine’s Day, hosts Tom Bedford and Kris Carter will have three boys and one girl on-air to play a version of “The Dating Game.” The show will consist of the hosts asking the boys “random” questions with the girl being able to hear the boys’ responses through headphones. Based on the boys’ responses, the girl will pick a “date.”

“It’s just for fun, we’re not going to bash anybody; we’re just going to have a good time,” Carter said.

The only qualification to appear on the show is participants have to actually be single. They will even use questions the girl comes up with along with their own made-up questions. They intend for participants to have fun and not take the game too seriously.

“It’s going to be for fun, everyone’s going to love it,” Carter said. “It’s not like people are going to find true love on Wilkes radio.”

There will even be free movie tickets added to the game. Carter and Bedford are hoping the show will generate more listeners to their broadcast, which plays up-and-coming artists of a variety of genres.

“We’re hoping the people who appear on air we’re hoping they get the word out to their friends and then people will listen to that show and then hopefully tune in for the shows week in and week out,” Carter said.

They said they are still looking for a girl and one more boy to make the game work, adding that there are no formal qualifications other than being single to appear on-air.

“There’s basically no rules; you just need to get out there,” Carter said.

Anyone interested in participating can contact Bedford and Carter at [email protected] and [email protected] The show will air from 1:15 to 3:15p.m. on Valentine’s Day.

About the Contributor

Christine Lee, Life Editor

Senior News Editor Christine Lee is a senior communication studies major with concentrations in journalism, broadcast media and rhetoric and minors in history and political science. She brings three and a half years of experience writing for The Beacon, having served as Life Editor from January 2011 (spring semester of her freshman year) to April 2012 (her sophomore year) and a staff writer from September-December 2010 (fall of her freshman year). She became news editor in fall 2012 and as a graduating senior, she serves as a writer and mentor to incoming Beacon staff. Christine carries a passion for all things news and current events and looks forward to covering major events on campus. She fully believes in respect for each person being interviewed, as she believes they have a story to tell her and she is recording it in print or on-air. A Dean's List student, she hails from the small town of Bloomsbury, N.J., and in addition to her role as News editor, she is an on-air reporter for "Wilkes Now," the student-produced television program filmed on campus, sings with the University Chorus and a local church choir, is an E-mentor for first-year students and is involved in a number of other little activities on campus. She is a student member of the Society of Professional Journalists-Wilkes Chapter.