Here’s a fun new trivia-based game called Beat Your Boss. A worker convinces their boss to take them on in a trivia contest. If the boss wins, you give them a prize. If the worker wins, the boss has to give the worker a day off with pay!
While they have yet to set a date, that doesn’t mean you can’t do content around Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s wedding. This one is the Travis and Taylor Wedding War. Find two wedding planners in town and tell them to put together a wedding for the couple. Tell them that, because the two are super rich, there is no budget so they can spend whatever they want. Check in with each wedding planner through the week. They both come back to share the details. Listeners then vote online which wedding is better for the celebrity couple.
With schools back in session, time for The Radar Run. Partner up with your local police department. Camp outside an elementary school one morning and have them clock how fast cars fly by, all in an effort to remind people to slow down around schools. John and Tammy, KSON, San Diego do this big. Here’s a social media video of all they put into it.
Is there an electronic billboard somewhere in town where they will let you run it for a morning? As kids head back to school, take calls from moms talking about what school their kid is enrolled in. Then, give her, the kid, and the school props on the billboard for five minutes before you switch it out.
You know what might be cool? Get into the Labor Day Weekend talking with women who are expecting to have babies in the next few weeks. It could be a cool phone topic then maybe aggregate that entire list and, for those who actually give birth at local hospitals over the holiday weekend, read the entire list on your Tuesday show when back from the break
Do some research online of some old time diseases that no longer exist. Grab the symptoms, then share them with the audience. First to identify the now eradicated disease wins your prize.
Looking for a substantive early show break to engage the audience and create an appointment? Fresh Out of Bed Head to Head is a trivia game pitting two listeners against each other in a vicarious break to create tune in. Rod Ryan, 94.5 The Buzz, Houston does this each morning with great success – thanks for the idea.
It’s the middle of summer. We’re living for air conditioning. And there are listeners who’s HVAC units aren’t working. Never more than now, they need the HVAC guy to show at the house to fix it. Get that emotion on your show by talking to those folks. Then, connect with an HVAC guy – they have a ton of great stories to tell, given they go to people’s homes! Call it I Know an HVAC Guy.
What might be fun is to choose a cast member and send them on a weekend Phone Fast. This is where they go old school – they give up their phone for an entire weekend to see what it’s like. Choose the cast member on your Friday show and ask a couple of listeners to do it with them, too. Then all gather Monday on the show to talk about what it was like to have a weekend without technology.
If you have a nice heatwave come across your market, do Hey Can I Do a Belly Flop? Ask listeners who have pools to let one cast member come to their house during the show. The cast member does a belly flop into the pool during the show to cool off. It’s great audio for the show, super local, and will provide terrific visuals for a bunch of videos you can push out on your socials. Thanks to Kyle, Bryan, and Sarah, WRAL-FM, Raleigh for the idea!