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TODAY’S TMJ4 Steinhafels Redo that Room Contest
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NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING.

1. Promotion Dates:
“TODAY’S TMJ4 Steinhafels Redo that Room Contest” (“Promotion”) will begin on January 14, 2008 and end on February 15, 2008 at 7:00am CT. The sweepstakes administrator’s computer is the official time keeping device for the Promotion.

2. How to Enter the Contest:
To participate in the Promotion, you may enter online, by mail or in-person as described below:

(a) Photo and Essay Submission: All entries, regardless of method of entry must be accompanied by (i) the room selection for the submission (either “Living Room”, “Dining Room”, “Child’s Bedroom”, or “Master Bedroom”); (ii) a brief essay response answering “why you or someone you know deserves a room re-do?”, and (iii) an original photograph of the room that the entrant would like to have redone. There is a limit of one (1) entry per household regardless of the method of entry. Entries must correspond with the entry periods for the specified room redecorations below. Altered, enhanced, manipulated or computer-edited photographs may not be accepted, and any photograph submission determined by the Station to be altered, enhanced, manipulated or computer-edited may be disqualified in the Station’s sole discretion. All photograph submissions must be clearly discernible to be eligible. Photograph submissions may not include images of individuals. Each photograph submission must be the original creative photographic work and/or property of the entrant and must not contain copyrighted materials or any other materials which may be restricted, prohibited, or outlawed by Federal, state or local laws. All photograph submissions and their content become the property of the Station and will not be returned. The Station, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify and/or destroy any photograph submission if such photograph submission contains illegal, indecent or otherwise offensive material such as aberrational behavior, graphic violence or drug abuse, or if such photograph submission contains material whose content is deemed at the sole discretion of the Station to be unsuitable for public viewing, performance or posting via the internet.

(b) Online Entry: To enter online, visit www.todaystmj4.com and go to the contest page to register to win. Follow the links and instructions to enter and submit your first name and last name, complete address, city, state, zip code, telephone number, date of birth, a valid email address, and their nominee’s name (if different from the entrant) in the online entry form. Internet entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry. The authorized account holder is the natural person who is assigned to the email address by an internet access provider, online service provider or other organization that is responsible by assigning email address or the domain associated with the submitted email address. Multiple entrants are not permitted to share the same email address. All entries submitted become the sole property of the Station and will not be acknowledged or returned. Use of any device to automate entry is prohibited. Proof of submission of an entry shall not be deemed proof of receipt by Station. Only entry per email address is permitted.

(c) Mail Entry: To enter by mail, entrants must legibly hand write their first name and last name, complete address, city, state, zip code, telephone number, date of birth, their nominee’s name (if different from the entrant), a brief essay response and a photograph, as described above, on a plain piece of paper, and mail in a separate envelope with sufficient postage to “TODAY’S TMJ4 Steinhafels Redo that Room Contest”, 720 East Capitol Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53212. Mail-in entries must be RECEIVED by the applicable entry deadlines set forth below. For entries by mail, the Station, Journal Broadcast Group, Journal Communications, and Steinhafels are not responsible for lost, stolen, mangled, misdelivered, illegible, incomplete or late entries.

(d) Store Entry: To enter at a participating Steinhafels store, entrants must legibly hand write their first name and last name, complete address, city, state, zip code, telephone number, date of birth, their nominee’s name (if different from the entrant), and a brief essay response on the nomination entry form/release provided while supplies last and attach a photograph, as described above, and submit both at the following Steinhafels locations. Store entries must be RECEIVED by the applicable entry deadlines set forth below. The Station, Journal Broadcast Group, Journal Communications, and Steinhafels are not responsible for lost, stolen, mangled, misdelivered, illegible, incomplete or late entries.

Waukesha Location and Clearance Center - I-94 & County Hwy F (Exit 295)
W231 N1013 County Hwy F - Waukesha, WI 53186-1502
(262) 436-4500

Milwaukee Location North Side - 84th & Capitol
8401 W. Capitol Drive - Milwaukee, WI 53222
(414) 463-5000

Greenfield Location South Side - 84th & Layton
8400 W. Layton Ave - Milwaukee, WI 53228
(414) 425-5000

Kenosha Location and Clearance Center - Hwy. 50 & I-94
7001 120th Avenue - Kenosha, WI 53142
(262) 857-2100

Menomonee Falls Superstore and Clearance Center - I-45 & County Line Rd (Exit 52)
N93 W16677 Richfield Way - Menomonee Falls, WI 53051-1487
(262) 437-8000

(e) Living Room Entry Period: Nomination submissions to redecorate a living room must be submitted as described above and RECEIVED by January 28, 2008 at 7:00am CT. Entries for this nomination segment will be judged on or around January 29, 2008. One potential winner of the Living Room prize certificate will be selected at this time using the criteria described below.

(f) Dining Room Entry Period: Nomination submissions to redecorate a living room must be submitted as described above and RECEIVED by February 1, 2008 at 7:00am CT. Entries for this nomination segment will be judged on or around February 4, 2008. One potential winner of the Dining Room prize certificate will be selected at this time using the criteria described below.

(g) Children’s Bedroom Entry Period: Nomination submissions to redecorate a children’s bedroom must be submitted as described above and RECEIVED by February 8, 2008 at 7:00am CT. Entries for this nomination segment will be judged on or around February 11, 2008. One potential winner of the Children’s Bedroom prize certificate will be selected at this time using the criteria described below.

(h) Master Bedroom Entry Period: Nomination submissions to redecorate a master bedroom must be submitted as described above and RECEIVED by February 15, 2008 at 7:00am CT. Entries for this nomination segment will be judged on or around February 18, 2008. One potential winner of the Master Bedroom prize certificate will be selected at this time using the criteria described below.

3. Eligibility Restrictions:
(a) The Promotion is open to Wisconsin State residents who are 21 years of age or older and live in the viewing areas of WTMJ-TV. Employees of WTMJ-TV, Journal Broadcast Group, Journal Communications, and Steinhafels, other television and radio stations in the Milwaukee, WI markets, and their corporate parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, their advertising agencies, participating sponsors/promotional partners, and the members of their immediate families (spouse, parents, sibling or children) are ineligible to participate or win.

(b) Viewers are eligible to win a WTMJ-TV contest only once every sixty days. Only one winner per household is permitted in any contest. Viewers are eligible to win a prize valued at $600.00 or more only once every six months.

(c) All entries become the sole property of WTMJ-TV and will not be returned. By entering, entrants agree to abide by these rules, and warrant and represent that their entry is their original work.

(d) Entrants are required to provide truthful information and the Station will reject and delete any entry that it discovers to be false or fraudulent. The Station will disqualify any entry from individuals who do not meet the eligibility requirements, and the Station will also delete any entry knowingly received from persons under the age of 13 in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.

4. Prizes:
(a) Four (4) Prizes: Each Prize is a prize certificate from Steinhafels valid for up to $3,000 in furniture. (Approximate Retail Value: $3,000 per Prize.) Delivery, consultation services/personal shopper services is included.

(b) Each prize certificate will be valid only for furniture for a different room of the redecoration. One prize certificate each will be awarded for redecoration of (i) a living room; (ii) dining room; (iii) child’s bedroom; and (iv) master bedroom.

(c) There is no substitution, transfer, or cash equivalent for prizes, except that the Station may, at its sole discretion, substitute prizes of comparable value or cash. The prizes are expressly limited to the item(s) listed above and do not include taxes, gratuities or any other expenses. Other restrictions may apply.

5. Winner Selection and Notification:
(a) Decisions of Station management with respect to the Promotion are final.

(b) One winner will be selected on each of the following dates by a panel of judges:
January 19, 2008 for the living room redo; February 4, 2008 for the dining room redo; February 11, 2008 for the kids room/spare room redo; February 18, 2008 for the master bedroom redo. “Redo That Room” essays will be judged on overall creativity and thoughtful description of nominees’ need for redecoration of one room in their home. If entrant is nominating someone other than themselves and their entry is picked to be a semi-finalist, a consent form signed by the actual nominee must be obtained to continue in the contest.

(c) Entrants need not be viewing to win. Broadcasts are subject to preemptions and scheduling changes. If such changes occur, they will be posted on the www.todaystmj4.com website.

(d) Winners (whether entrants or their nominees, as applicable) MUST execute and return any required affidavit of eligibility and/or liability/publicity release within ten (10) days of notification attempt or prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner may be chosen by a panel of judges. If a potential winner cannot be contacted, fails to complete, sign and return the required affidavit of eligibility and liability/publicity release within the required time period, or if a prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable, potential winner forfeits prize.

(e) Unless otherwise specified in the prize notification, all prizes or prize certificates may be picked up at the office of the Station at the address below. The winner will forfeit any prize or prize certificate not claimed within thirty (30) days of winning.

6. Conditions:
(a) Payments of all federal, state and local taxes are solely the responsibility of the winners. Winners will be required to complete and submit an IRS Form W-9 with the winner’s full Social Security Number or the equivalent for receipt of any prize valued at $600 or more or for any prizes awarded by the Station in a calendar year with an aggregate value of $600 or more. Failure to submit a complete W-9 or equivalent will result in forfeiture of the prize.

(b) By accepting the prize, each winner grants to Station the right to use the winner's name, voice, picture and/or likeness for purposes of advertising and publicity in any and all media now known or hereafter invented, without further permission or additional compensation (except where prohibited by law).

(c) Prior to awarding any prize or prize certificate, the Station in its sole discretion may require verification of Promotion winner’s identification by a showing of a valid government-issued photo identification. The Station may also require Promotion winners and the person who nominated them, if any to sign a liability release, agreeing to hold Steinhafels, the Station, its corporate licensee, its sponsor(s) and promotional partner(s), their parent, subsidiary and affiliated corporations, and the officers, shareholders, directors, employees, agents and representatives of each of them (collectively, the “Released Parties”) harmless against any and all claims or liability arising directly or indirectly from the prize or participation in the Promotion.

(d) The Station, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any person (and all of their entries) from this Promotion if he or she tampers with the entry process or the operation of the Station’s website or is otherwise in violation of the rules. The Station further reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify, cancel, terminate or suspend the Promotion, or any part of it, if it is not capable of completion as planned or if any fraud, technical failures or any factor beyond the Station’s control, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention or technical failures of any sort, corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Promotion as determined by the Station in is sole discretion. Any attempt by an entrant or any person to deliberately damage any station website or to undermine the legitimate operation of this Promotion may be a violation of criminal and civil laws. Should such an attempt be made, the Station reserves the right to seek full prosecution and/or damages from any such individual to the fullest extent permitted by law. The Station’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of this provision. If due to circumstances beyond the control of the Station, any competition or prize-related event is delayed, rescheduled, postponed or cancelled, the Station reserves the right, but not the obligation, to modify, suspend or cancel the Promotion and shall not be required to award a substitute prize.

(e) The Released Parties are not responsible for (i) typographical or other errors in the printing, the offering or the administration of the Promotion, or in the announcement of a prize; (ii) entries not received due to difficulty accessing the internet, service outage or delays, computer difficulties, malfunctions, disconnections, or other technological failures; or (iii) lost, stolen, mangled, misdelivered, postage due, illegible, incomplete, incorrect, or late entries.

(f) Copies of the Official Rules or for a list of winners following completion of the Promotion (specify which), send a self-addressed, stamped envelope specifying “Official Rules” or “Winner List” to “TODAY’S TMJ4 Steinhafels Redo that Room Contest” Winner List or Official Rules Request, WTMJ-TV, 720 E. Capitol Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53212. A copy of the Official Rules and a list of winners (when complete) are also available during regular business hours at the main studio of WTMJ-TV, 720 E. Capitol Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53212. All such requests must be received within 30 days following completion of the Promotion.

 
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