Michiana's A-List: How Voting Works & How to Win

Michiana's A-List: one confirmed window, September 7 through October 14, 2026, listed as upcoming

Second Street's own listing for Michiana's A-List names a single confirmed stretch: a combined nomination-and-voting page running September 7 through October 14, 2026, currently marked upcoming rather than already open. WBYT-FM, on air as B100 out of Elkhart, organizes the listing, with its broadcast reach extending to South Bend; Federated Media's other stations for the market, WRBR and 95.3 MNC, point supporters to that same page instead of hosting a separate ballot.

Past that single window, the listing stays quiet. No category breakdown appears anywhere on it, no per-voter limit is printed, and nothing states whether a second Michiana's A-List follows this one. A business weighing whether to submit a name here is weighing a program with exactly one confirmed season, not an established yearly pattern.

This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle rather than treating the September window as a settled annual date.

One shared ballot, where South Bend and Elkhart already run their own separate pages

South Bend and Elkhart each already carry a dedicated readers'-choice program of their own, and Michiana's A-List sits apart from both, a single WBYT-FM listing rather than either city's existing ballot.

A nomination entered on b100.secondstreetapp.com settles nothing toward YourChoiceAwards South Bend Best Of or Best of Elkhart County's own counts, and neither of those two programs feeds back into Michiana's A-List either; each keeps its own separate rules.

Why the exact web address matters here

With only one confirmed season behind it, Michiana's A-List has not built the kind of search recognition that an older program collects over time. Going straight to b100.secondstreetapp.com, or to WRBR or 95.3 MNC, is steadier than trusting whatever a general search for a South Bend or Elkhart "best of" ballot happens to surface first.

Elkhart, South Bend, and one shared broadcast market

Elkhart sits in Elkhart County, Indiana, and WBYT-FM's own broadcast reach carries the B100 signal to South Bend as well, which is why Michiana's A-List names both cities rather than just the one where the station is licensed. Federated Media's sister stations for the market, WRBR and 95.3 MNC, share that same reach and the same listing.

Nothing published narrows nomination eligibility to a specific radius inside or around either city's own limits. The live listing itself, not a boundary assumed from ordinary geography, is what would show any such limit if WBYT-FM actually applies one; confirm on the live ballot each cycle rather than guessing.

Supporting a first-edition ballot honestly, before October 14

With one confirmed window, September 7 through October 14, 2026, currently listed as upcoming, the practical move is lining up real South Bend and Elkhart-area supporters ahead of that date rather than assuming rules this program has not yet published. This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

None of that makes early outreach wasted effort. Asking real South Bend and Elkhart-area people to vote, again and again while the page stays open, is what actually moves a ballot this new, whether a future season ends up capped, uncapped, or never broken into categories at all. A program still on its first confirmed season has far less cushion to absorb a fraud flag than one with a decade of prior seasons already settled, which is one more reason to keep any outreach genuine from the start.

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