Archive for month: February, 2017

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to own an Academy Award?  Is it heavy?  Does everyone want to hold and touch it?  Are there rules and regulations from the Academy to ownership?  The answer to all three is yes.  John and Tammy, KSON, San Diego were curious about all these questions (curiosity is so critical to be a successful radio personality) and then they found out that Chris Turner, the longtime (and excellent) promotions director at the radio station, has an Oscar, and not for the reason you’d think.  So they put him on to tell his story and get answers to all the questions they wondered about.  Bringing people inside a topic, from any angle, is always good radio if it leads to a fascinating story with humor.  This is a timely and topical break given we’re in the season for awards shows, specifically the Oscars.

Every show does trivia in some form or another.  Any great game show on TV (past or present) uses trivia as a foundation to entertain.  It’s how you do the trivia that engages the audience.  The manner in which it’s framed and presented is what resonates (which is why Jeopardy is different from NBC’s The Wall).  The Big Dave Show, B105, Cincinnati, has a daily feature called Chelsie’s “Not As Naughty As It Sounds” trivia question.  It’s the pro forma “this percentage of people do this” question yet the frame makes you think it’s dirty (it’s not).  Then the cast takes a guess to remove two very obvious answers before they take calls.  Go do trivia – it’s quite engaging and forces the audience to get vicarious to the show.  But spend more time on how you do it so it cuts through.