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ZMR Awards Process and
Rules
These
are the processes and rules that will be used to guide the ZMR Music
Awards. The rules will be strictly enforced and adhered to. There
will be no exceptions.
Nomination
Process
1.
All Broadcasters (Show Hosts) that have reported Top 20
Lists to ZMR during the time period December 2008 thru November 2009
are eligible to participate in both the Nomination and Award Voting
process.
2.
Each Broadcaster (Show Hosts) will be asked to nominate
five (5) selections in as many categories as they feel
comfortable providing
nominations.
3.
Recordings eligible for nomination will be
restricted to recordings that were Top 50 of the ZMR Top 100
chart from December 2008 thru November 2009 (except
for "Album of the Year" which was restricted to recording in the Top
10). A listing of all eligible recordings, by category,
will be available on the ZMR website starting on
Sunday January 17th, 2010
. Only those recordings appearing in this listing will be
eligible. Write in
candidates will not be accepted.
4.
All
voting will be done electronically.
5.
Voters are asked to select up to five (5)
recordings in each category. Nomination voting will being on
Monday January 25th, 2010 and will close on Wednesday February 10th,
2010.
6.
All nominations will by tabulated by ZMR and the top five in
each category will be the finalists. If by chance there is a tie in a category, a
5-point tiebreaker will be used to determine the top 5 finalists
(see Tie Breaker).
7.
Catagory Nominees
will be announced and posted on the ZMR website on Sunday February
14th, 2010 and all finalists will be notified by
email.
Award Voting
Process
1.
The
award-voting panel
will consist of all of the Broadcasters (Show Hosts) who participated
in the initial nomination process, RJ Lannan and
Bill Binkelman (NAR).
2.
Each member of the voting panel will be requested to
electronically select a finalist in as many categories they feel comfortable
voting in.
3.
Voting members may vote for only one winner in each
category.
4.
All Finalist votes will be tabulated by
ZMR.
6.
There will only be one winner in each category. If
by chance there is a tie in a category, a 5-point tiebreaker will be
used to determine the winner (see Tie
Breaker).
7.
Finalist award voting
will begin on Monday February 22nd, 2010 and will close
on Wednesday March 10th, 2010.
8.
Awards will be announced on the ZMR
website on Sunday March 14th, 2010
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