What Year Is It? Channel 95.5 Doesn't Know.

Every morning around 6:30 AM, Channel 95.5 in Detroit has a radio contest called "Time Warp". How the game is played is they give three events that happened in a given year, and also they play a snippet of a song from the same year. Listeners call in with their guess of what year, and the first correct caller wins a prize. The prize today was tickets to Cedar Point, an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio.

Every morning for the last 2 weeks, Robin has gotten up early so as to try to win these tickets. Today was no different. One of the clues given was "James Brown's wife cited diplomatic immunity in court for traffic violations, claiming she was the wife of the ambassador of love". This happened on June 2, 1988. Robin called in to the station, and was told that she was wrong. The other two clues for the day, plus the song snippet were from 1986, which they said was the correct answer. She researched it this morning for verification, and did prove that she was correct. Robin then called the station to tell them about the mistake in their game, and the woman who answered the phone rudely said to her "I'll tell Chad about it." Whatever that means. Not even "sorry".

The "Time Warp" game is a fun game to play, particularly if you like trivia. But if a radio station is going to play a game like this, you would think that accuracy would matter. Obviously, Channel 95.5 does not.