Listen to Star 99.7 on Weekdays for the Sizzling Summer Keyword
& Text it to (843) 972-9999 to Enter to Win Weekly Prizes,
Plus a Grand Prize Weeklong Stay in Pawley’s Island
This summer, you’ve got the opportunity to win your share of more than $10,000 in prizes.
Celebrate our Sizzling Summer with Hyundai of Charleston, Hyundai of North Charleston and Genesis of Charleston. Every Monday through Thursday all summer long, listen for winning words to text to (843) 972-9999 to enter one of our weekly prizes. Each Friday, all summer, you might win a Yeti Cooler and concert tickets, a unique Halls Chophouse Nexton dining experience for four, or a Hooray Grill.
Plus, every time you enter, you’re automatically in the running to win a weeklong stay in a condo on Pawley’s Island that’s available for up to 8 people.
Listen, text, and win all summer long! Plus, visit Hyundai of Charleston in West Ashley, Hyundai of North Charleston and Genesis of Charleston in North Charleston and scan a QR code to be entered to win.
Whether you’re grilling out, chilling by the beach, or spending time on the boat, our Sizzling Summer is your ultimate summer escape!
Brought to you by Hyundai of Charleston,
Hyundai of North Charleston & Genesis of Charleston:
Contest Rules:
These are the rules governing the “Sizzling Summer” contest aired on WMXZ-FM/Mix 95.9FM, 101.7 Chuck-FM/WAVF-FM, and Star 99.7, WXST-FM, radio and on the mix959.com, 1017chuckfm.com, and star997.com websites, unless otherwise specified. Plus, the dealerships Hyundai of North Charleston, 8485 Rivers Ave, North Charleston, SC 29406, Hyundai of Charleston, 2492 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29414 and Genesis of Charleston, 8485 Rivers Ave, North Charleston, SC 29406. Listeners can participate, and win, by listening to any of the three (3) Charleston Media Solutions stations, or by visiting any or all of the Hyundai/Genesis locations:
- No purchase is necessary to enter any 101.7 Chuck-FM, Star 99.7 or Mix 95.9 contest.
- You must be at least 18 years of age, a legal resident of South Carolina and have a valid South Carolina driver’s license to enter and win. To win the grand prize, an individual must be 25 years of age.
- Beginning Monday, June 9, 2025, at 6:00AM and continuing each Monday through Thursday through, August 28, 2025 at 11:59PM, individuals will be able to listen to either of these Charleston Media Solutions radio stations –WXST-FM, Star 99.7, WMXZ-FM, Mix 95.9 and/or WAVF-FM 101.7 Chuck-FM – to win.
- Listeners will be competing with other listeners from all three (3) of these Charleston Media Solutions stations and entrants from Hyundai of Charleston, Hyundai of North Charleston and Genesis of Charleston for the same prize.
- Individuals that are employees or affiliates of Hyundai of North Charleston, Hyundai of Charleston or Genesis of Charleston are not eligible to enter and/or win.
- Each Monday through Thursday during the contest period, at varying times between 6AM and 11:59PM, each station will announce a winning keyword. Listeners can text that word to the individual radio station text number as many times as they wish to one or all participating stations, to be entered to win a weekly prize.
- Standard text and data charges may be applied.
- The text number for the individual radio stations are:
WXST-FM, Star 99.7 – (843) 972-9999
WAVF-FM, 101.7 Chuck-FM – (854) 220-1017
WMXZ-FM, Mix 95.9 – (843) 375-0959
- Individuals may also enter to win during the contesting period by visiting Hyundai of North Charleston, 8485 Rivers Ave, North Charleston, SC 29406, Hyundai of Charleston, 2492 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29414 or Genesis of Charleston, 8485 Rivers Ave, North Charleston, SC 29406 and scanning a QR code at the dealership during regular business hours, Monday through Friday 9AM until 8PM and Saturday 9AM until 7PM. There is a limit of one (1) QR code entry per household per dealership location per day.
- Each entry provides an individual an opportunity to win that week’s individual prize, plus the “Sizzling Summer” grand prize.
- One (1) winner from all eligible entries submitted that week will be randomly selected at approximately 9AM each Friday.
- Because the 4th of July falls on Friday, the winner for week # 4 of the contest, with texts from Monday, June 30, 2025, through Thursday, July 3, 2025, will be selected on Monday, July 7, 2025, at approximately 9AM.
- At least three (3) attempts will be made to contact the winner by phone and or text within three (3) hours of being selected.
- The winner will have 72 hours to respond. If the winner does not respond, a new winner will be selected in a random drawing all of remaining eligible entries at approximately 9AM on the following Monday.
- The “Sizzling Summer” weekly prizes are:
- Friday, 6/13/25, a Yeti Cooler, valued at $450 and the choice of either two (2) tickets to the Saturday, June 21,2025 Dave Matthews Band concert at Credit One Stadium, 161 Seven Farms Dr, Charleston, SC 29492. Each ticket is valued at $85.00 OR two (2) tickets to the Saturday, August 30, 2025, Lowcountry Jazz Festival Night One at the Charleston Gaillard Center, 95 Calhoun St, Charleston, SC 29401. Each ticket is valued at $161.46.
- Friday, 6/20/25, an Exquisite Food Tasting Events for four (4) adults at Halls Chophouse. 300 Nexton Square Parkway, Summerville, SC 29486, valued at $1,000.
- Friday, 6/27/25, a 30″ Lodge Series Santa Maria Hooray Grill valued at $2,500.
- Friday, 7/04/25, A Summer Ticket Package including 4 admission passes to the SC Aquarium, 100 Aquarium Wharf, Charleston, SC 29401, each ticket valued at $33.50. Four (4) admission passes Whirling Waters Adventure Park, 8888 University Blvd, North Charleston, SC 29406, each pass valued at $24.99 and four (4) ticket vouchers for the Charleston RiverDogs, Joe Riley Ball Park, 360 Fishburne St, Charleston, SC 29403, each voucher is valued at $12.00
- Friday, 7/11/2025, a Yeti Cooler, valued at $450 and either two (2) tickets to the Friday, July 18 ,2025 Luke Bryan concert at Credit One Stadium, 161 Seven Farms Dr, Charleston, SC 29492. Each ticket is valued at $75.00. Or, two (2) tickets to the November 8, 2025 Blues Is Alright Concert at the North Charleston Coliseum, 5001 Coliseum Drive, North Charleston, SC 29418. Each ticket is valued at $75.00.
- Friday, 7/18/25, a TailGater Charcoal Grill Hooray Grill valued at $1,250.
- Friday, 7/25/25, A Summer Ticket Package including 4 admission passes to the SC Aquarium, 100 Aquarium Wharf, Charleston, SC 29401, each ticket valued at $33.50. Four (4) admission passes Whirling Waters Adventure Park, 8888 University Blvd, North Charleston, SC 29406, each pass valued at $24.99 and four (4) ticket vouchers for the Charleston RiverDogs, Joe Riley Ball Park, 360 Fishburne St, Charleston, SC 29403, each voucher is valued at $12.00
- Friday, 8/01/2025, a Yeti Cooler, valued at $450 and either two (2) tickets to the Wednesday, August 6 ,2025 Collective Soul concert at Credit One Stadium, 161 Seven Farms Dr, Charleston, SC 29492. Each ticket is valued at $75.00. Or, two (2) tickets to the Friday, October 10, 2025, Legends of Laughter Concert at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center, 5001 Coliseum Drive, North Charleston, SC 29418. Each ticket is valued at $82.40.
- Friday, 8/08/25, an Exquisite Food Tasting Events for four (4) adults at Halls Chophouse, 300 Nexton Square Parkway, Summerville, SC 29486, valued at $1,000.
- Friday, 8/15/25, a Painted Hurtado SmokeBoxes Hooray Grill valued at $2,700.
- Friday, 8/22/25, a Yeti Cooler, valued at $450 and either two (2) tickets to the Friday, September 26, 2025 The Lumineers concert at Credit One Stadium, 161 Seven Farms Dr, Charleston, SC 29492. Each ticket is valued at $90.00. OR, two (2) tickets to the Saturday, November 8, 2025, Blues Is Alright concert at the North Charleston Coliseum, 5001 Coliseum Drive, North Charleston, SC 29418. Each ticket is valued at $80.00.
- Friday, 8/29/25, the “Sizzling Summer” grand prize, a Saturday to Saturday rental of a 3 bedroom/2 bath condo at Litchfield Retreat, 423 Parker Dr, Pawleys Island, SC 29585. The condo can accommodate up to eight (8) people, no smoking and no pets. The use of this condo is subject to availability, valued at $2500.
- An individual may one win one (1) weekly prize during the Sizzling Summer contest. All individuals, including weekly winners, are eligible to win the Sizzling Summer grand prize.
- The Sizzling Summer grand prize winner will be provided contact information to reserve the condo stay. The condo stay must be taken within one (1) year of winning this prize.
- Charleston RiverDogs ticket vouchers will be emailed to each winner to a valid email address the winner provides within 10 business days of winning.
- The winner will be provided contact information to redeem the Exquisite Food Tasting Events for four (4) adults at Halls Signature Events. Event to be scheduled at the winner’s day/time preference, based on availability. The dinner must be scheduled prior to Tuesday, December 31, 2025.
- All other prizes including the Yeti Cooler, Hooray Grills and event tickets may be claimed at one (1) of the three (3) participating car dealerships. Charleston Media Solutions will facilitate the winner contacting the individual dealerships to arrange pick-up during business hours at the dealership. These prizes must be claimed within fourteen (14) business days of being contacted.
- Each winner will need to fill out a 1099 tax form provided by Hyundai of Charleston or Hyundai of North Charleston.
- To be eligible to win any prize on Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, you must not have won anything on Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, in the past 30 days or any prize valued at $600 or more in the past 6 months. Only one winner per household is permitted within 30 days after a household has a winner. Any prize awarded to an ineligible listener will be deemed null and void, and an alternate eligible winner may be named.
- Anytime you call the Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, studios you assume that your call will be broadcast or recorded, and you grant us permission to broadcast the call or record it for later broadcast.
- As a winner of a Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, contest your voice, name and/or picture may be used for promotional, broadcast, or internet purposes without any compensation to you.
- Prizes awarded are not redeemable for cash. No prize is transferable. No substitution for a prize will be made at the request of a winner. Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, reserves the right to substitute a prize of similar value.
- All winners of all contests are responsible for all federal, state and local taxes n prize(s) awarded. All winners of a prize valued at $600 or more will be required to complete the appropriate tax forms at the Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, studios prior to claiming prize. All winners will be sent a 1099 MISC federal tax form if in one calendar year the prize value of all prizes won exceeds $600.
- In the event the winner is subject to or the subject of any order or legal process issued by any governmental agency having jurisdiction over the affairs of the winner (i.e. garnishment, child support order, judgment, lien, and the like), Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9,’s delivery of the prize to the official representative of the governmental entity claiming a right to the prize shall be thus deemed as (Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9,) awarding the prize to the winner. Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, shall be entitled to rely in good faith, upon any documents presented by the representative seeking to collect the prize in lieu of the winner. Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, Hyundai of Charleston, Hyundai of North Charleston and Gensis of Charleston shall not be liable for any claim by any winner for damages incidental thereto.
- All Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, contests are open to all eligible residents 18 or over (unless otherwise specified) living within 75 miles of station transmitter(s) and must not have won anything on Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, in the past 30 days or any prize valued at $600 or more in the past 6 months. Only one winner per household is permitted within 30 days after a household has a winner. Any prize awarded to an ineligible listener will be deemed null and void, and an alternate eligible winner may be named. Contestants must possess a valid form of identification bearing the picture of the contestant acceptable to Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, that will be presented to Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, and accepted before the prize is awarded. Employees of Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9,, the Charleston Radio Group, and its ultimate parent company, Saga Communications, Inc., their advertising agencies, affiliates, contest sponsors, employees and immediate families of each, and employees of all media of mass communication within a one-hundred mile radius of the Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9 main studio are not eligible to win any contest. Immediate family includes the spouse, great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of the employee and his/her spouse. This also includes individuals for whom the employee is current legal guardian.
- Where the prize(s) consists of electronic (digital) concert or event tickets, the winner will receive an email from Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9,y with a hyperlink to an electronic waiver form that the winner must sign and return to Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, before the prize will be transferred to the winner. The tickets will be transferred to the winner by Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, or, in some cases, by a third party (for example, Ticketmaster, LiveNation, etc.) and the winner must check his or her email account for an email or cellular mobile number for a text message from the ticket provider in order to download the tickets. In some cases, the winner will be directed to go to a specified address and retrieve the tickets (“will-call tickets”), and winner agrees to pick up tickets as directed. In the event the winner does not have an email account or mobile phone, upon being notified by the winner, Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, will download the tickets for pickup by the winner at 2294 Clements Ferry Road, Charleston, SC 29492.
- All federal, state, and local laws and regulations apply. Contest is void where prohibited.
- Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM, Mix 95.9 or Hyundai of Charleston, Hyundai of North Charleston and/or Genesis of Charleston reserves the right to disqualify any entrant if any contest rules are violated in any way.
- Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM, Mix 95.9 or Hyundai of Charleston, Hyundai of North Charleston assumes no liability for situations, repairs, or incidents arising from any aspect of any prize awarded in any contest. Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM, Mix 95.9 or Hyundai of Charleston, Hyundai of North Charleston, Genesis of Charleston, its advertising agencies, affiliates, contest sponsors, employees, and immediate families of each are absolved and shall be held harmless from any action or liability arising from any contest or prize awarded in any contest.
- As a licensee of the FCC and a trustee of the public airwaves, Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, reserves the right to interrupt and/or discontinue any contest or promotion (and not award the offered prize(s)) at the discretion of Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, management if world events, the national mood, or public safety so warrant.
- Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM, Mix 95.9 or Hyundai of Charleston, Hyundai of North Charleston or Genesis of Charleston reserves the right to amend the rules to any contest at any time. Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9,’s decision is always final. In the event any one of the general contest rules which govern all Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, contests contradict with any specific contest term, the specific contest term will control.
- Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM, Mix 95.9 or Hyundai of Charleston, Hyundai of North Charleston or Genesis of Charleston shall have no responsibility for contestant’s inability or failure to participate, failure to win or claim any prize based on malfunction or difficulties with telephone, cell phone, texting, email, or internet access, or any other circumstances in any contest beyond Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9,’s control.
- For any contest involving on-line voting: If an entrant receives irregular votes, including but not limited to, votes generated by a robotic, programmed, script, macro, or other automated means, Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, reserves the right to disqualify the entrant in its sole discretion and/or use another means to determine the winner(s), ex. – random selection or appointing a panel of judges.
- For any contests involving tickets to live performances or events, winners will need to follow all COVID guidelines and protocols put in place by the concert organizer.
- Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM, Mix 95.9 or Hyundai of Charleston, Hyundai of North Charleston or Genesis of Charleston is not responsible for Internet crashes or slowdowns caused by network congestion, viruses, sabotage, satellite failures, phone line failures, electrical outages, natural disasters or act of man or God, lost, late, misdirected, postage-due, unintelligible, returned, undelivered entries or email, or lost, interrupted or unavailable satellite, network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), website, or other connections availability, accessibility or traffic congestion, miscommunications, failed computer, network, telephone, satellite or cable hardware or software or lines, or technical failure, or jumbled, scrambled, delayed or misdirected transmissions, computer hardware or software malfunctions, failures or difficulties, or other errors of any kind whether human, mechanical, electronic, or network. Persons who tamper with or abuse any aspect of this contest or website, or act in violation of the official service, as solely determined by the station, will be disqualified. Neither sponsor nor promotion parties are responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information whether caused by website users, tampering, hacking, or by any of the programming or equipment associated with or used in this contest, and assumes no responsibility for any errors, omissions, deletion, interruption or delay in operation or transmission or communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized website access. 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM, Mix 95.9 or Hyundai of Charleston, Hyundai of North Charleston, is not responsible for injury or damage to participant’s or any other person’s computer or property related to or resulting from participating in this contest. Should any portion of contest be, in Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9’s sole opinion, compromised by virus, worms, bugs, unauthorized human intervention or other causes which, in the sole opinion of the station, corrupt or impair administration, security, fairness or proper play of this contest, or contest plays, Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM, Mix 95.9 or Hyundai of Charleston, Hyundai of North Charleston, reserves the right at its sole discretion to suspend, modify or terminate the contest.
- Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9, has not made nor is in any manner responsible or liable for any warranty, representation, or guarantee, express or implied, in fact or in law, relative to any prize, including but not limited to its quality, mechanical condition or fitness for a particular purpose. Any and all warranties and/or guarantees on prize (if any) are provided only by the manufacturer, and winners agree to look solely to such manufacturers for any such warranty and/or guarantee.
42. A copy of these rules is available during business hours at the Star 99.7, 101.7 Chuck-FM or Mix 95.9 studios 2294 Clements Ferry Rd. Charleston, SC 29492 or online at www.star997.com/contests, www.mix959.com/contests and www.1017chuckfm.com as well as at Hyundai of North Charleston, 8485 Rivers Ave, North Charleston, SC 29406, Hyundai of Charleston, 2492 Savannah Highway, Charleston, SC 29414 or and Genesis of Charleston, 8485 Rivers Ave, North Charleston, SC 29406.