49 ABC News' Watch and Win Contest

Win up to $1,049!

You like to watch KTKA 49 ABC News for sports, weather and local news, right? Now we're giving you another reason to tune in: Money for groceries and maybe more than $1,000 cash.

Watch 49 News at 6 and 10 every day and weekends at 10 for your chance to win a $49 Hy-Vee gift card and be entered to win drawings for a flat panel TV or the grand cash prize, $1,049.

Tune in to 49 News; that's channel 12 on Sunflower Broadband and channel 9 on Cox Cable. Listen for a birthday. And if the date we give matches your birthday, you win. To retrieve your prize, bring two forms of photo ID, with verification of your date of birth, to the TV station within two business days to claim your prize. KTKA 49 News is located at 2121 SW Chelsea Drive in Topeka.

Rules and information

-- The contest runs from April 24 to May 21, 2008.

-- You are eligible to win a prize from KTKA only every 60 days.

-- Employees of KTKA 49 ABC and Free State Communications and their respective parents or subsidiaries are ineligible.

-- Birth dates are randomly selected.

--Entry constitutes your permission, except where prohibited by law, to use your name, city, state, likeness, image and voice for purposes of advertising, promotion and publicity without additional compensation.

-- Read all contest rules (.doc).

You can watch Good Morning Kansas and win too. Check out the info for Wake Up and Win contests here.

Meet our first winner, Kevin Baldwin>/a>.

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