Unlike its successor, the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, the show was less of a televised live event, and more of a pre-produced program.
The in-studio hosts for the show were Matt Nespole, Rebecca Schwager, and Mark Shanahan.
[2] Ballots for the show's awards were cast via mail, and then the winners would tape a thank you video that was shown during the program.
These videos were introduced, and broken up by "link" segments, featuring the Rated K cast.
While The Big Ballot was seen as a success, producers Alan Goodman, Albie Hecht, and Fred Seibert were brought in to rebrand and re-launch the award show the following year, modeling future KCA's after MTV's Video Music Awards, which was under the same banner network umbrella now that Nickelodeon had been purchased by Viacom.