KQTV Fans Choice: How Voting Works & How to Win

KQTV Fans Choice, piece by piece: organizer, platform, and the confirmed 2025 window

Fans Choice runs on Second Street, the ballot platform whose kq2.secondstreetapp.com address belongs to KQTV, a Missouri television station reachable at kq2.com. The 2025 cycle opened August 29 and closed November 14, 2025, marking the program's second confirmed year after an earlier cycle in 2024 at the same web address. Second Street classifies the promotion type as a combined nomination-and-voting ballot, the format the station uses specifically for Fans Choice rather than for its other online promotions.

Treat the last two rows plainly: confirm on the live ballot each cycle, since neither a full list of ballot categories nor a per-supporter voting ceiling has ever been published for Fans Choice, across either of its two confirmed years.

Not the same as KQTV's sweepstakes and photo galleries

KQTV runs several other promotions on the same Second Street address, and none of them work like Fans Choice. Out of the Ballpark is a sweepstakes entry, open from March 2023 through June 2027, with no ballot and no voting involved at all. The station's quarterly $5,000 sweepstakes drawings, its Holiday Cash Giveaway, its ZZ Top and Dwight Yoakam ticket giveaway, and the Senior Greetings photo gallery sponsored by Highland Community College are all built the same simple way: enter once, wait for a draw or a gallery post, done.

Fans Choice is the one KQTV promotion built as a ballot, meaning supporters actually vote rather than simply enter. Second Street's own listing keeps this promotion type separate from every sweepstakes and gallery on the same kq2.secondstreetapp.com address, so anyone clicking a stray KQTV link this fall could just as easily end up inside one of those giveaways instead of the Fans Choice ballot itself. Reading the exact address, not just the KQTV name attached to it, is what actually tells the two apart.

Missouri runs several separate best-of and fan-vote ballots; Fans Choice is just one

Missouri hosts more than one readers'-choice or fan-vote program, and none of them share a judging panel, a login, or a results page with Fans Choice. A-List St. Louis Magazine and Feast Magazine FEAST 50 both answer to St. Louis-area magazine publishers rather than to a television station. Best of KC covers a different Missouri market under its own separate masthead, and Best of Southwest Missouri serves a different region of the state entirely.

Columbia Missourian Reader's Choice Awards and Columbia MO CommunityVotes both run out of Columbia, on their own separate platforms, with their own separate rules. A strong showing in Fans Choice carries no weight in any of these five other programs, and a win in one of them says nothing about how KQTV's own ballot will run. Each of those five programs keeps its own nomination and voting calendar, so watching one of them for a cue about when Fans Choice opens next is watching the wrong clock entirely. A supporter chasing more than one of these programs at once is running separate campaigns, not a single push that happens to touch several outlets.

Building support for the next Fans Choice cycle

Second Street's own listing points to two Fans Choice cycles so far, 2024 and 2025, with the next one expected in 2026 once KQTV opens a new nomination window. Nothing published yet fixes that 2026 date, so treat any specific opening day as unconfirmed until it actually appears on kq2.secondstreetapp.com; confirm on the live ballot each cycle before making a promise to any customer or reader.

Whatever the exact 2026 window ends up being, the same practical rule applies every year: contact real supporters directly, follow up with them again a few days later, and don't save that first ask for whatever final stretch a future window ends up having, the way the 2025 cycle ran all the way to November 14. Real requests to real people remain the safer route regardless of what a category list or vote cap eventually turns out to be, since Fans Choice has not published either one this far into its run.

Getting nominated onto a Fans Choice ballot is one step; winning is a separate outcome only KQTV and Second Street get to decide once a cycle closes. Is buying votes legal lays out where a legitimate push ends and a risky one begins, useful reading before committing real budget to a 2026 campaign. Getting more votes online walks through outreach built around real people rather than around rules Fans Choice simply hasn't posted, and award-ballot campaign planning is built around exactly the nominate-then-vote shape Fans Choice follows.