Archive for month: August, 2015
Power 106 Cruz Messes Up
One of the great connection attributes a show can communicate is that they’re regular, flawed people. Our audio producer, Edgar Preciado at The Cruz Show, Power 106, Los Angeles, gathered all the verbal miscues from our anchor Cruz. He edited them together to create this really fun series of clips poking fun at the mistakes made. Cruz, as well as the rest of the show, had no idea what to expect to preserve the most honest of reactions. The more you can make fun of yourself, celebrate your flaws, and be self-depracating, the more the audience will laugh and root for you. Here’s the audio to enjoy.
Name/Fame
If you have a fall fair in your town, convince someone from the livestock part of the show to name an animal after each member of the morning show. Rob and Joss, Froggy 92.9, Santa Rosa, CA do this each year and call it “Give Us the Name, We’ll Give You the Fame.” Then check on the person who consents each morning to see how your livestock are doing!
Hot List August 24, 2015
Making a Funeral Director Laugh
Someone attending last month’s Morning Show Bootcamp shared a fun, new idea: making a funeral director laugh. The marriage of these two opposites is intriguing and this might be a fun bit to do at the same time each day for a week where you get on a different funeral director and then someone on the show has thirty seconds to get them to laugh out loud.
KSON John Flint: Water Cop
Great breaks are centered around the most relevant topic choices of the day and done in a way to create and showcase the sense of humor of the hosts. California is suffering through water restrictions with its droughts and fires. Enter then, John Flint: Water Cop! John and Tammy, KSON, San Diego, seizing on the topic and John’s desire to become law enforcement, became a water cop in his neighborhood, noting those who are violating the restrictions. What makes this break terrific include these items: the topic is local, John and the team are storytelling, they have a production value (including a quirky jingle) to signal silliness to the audience, and they have on someone from law enforcement to help them have their fun.
Hot List August 17, 2015
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Donald Trump
Back to School
Straight Outta Compton
NFL Pre-Season
Iowa State Fair
Teen Choice Awards
PGA Championship
Cuba
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John Daly
Obama’s Vacation
Amazon
AT&T
Tim Tebow
Sesame Street
Michael Sam
Jimmy Carter
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WZLX The Number One PD in the Country
How do you celebrate when a co-worker receives an accolade? Normally highlighting the successes of the program director of your radio station could be a very inside conversation. Not for Karlson and McKenzie, WZLX, Boston. When the PD (who they have a good relationship with) is named the number one program director in America, the show whips out their cell to record the conversation to bring us to the moment to have their fun. Then allow things to escalate when the PD calls the studio to defend himself with the grief they’re giving him on the show. All around, this was a relatable conversation and, because he gave the show the business back, the audience is laughing along.
Let It Go
Almost every person you’ll encounter the day you read this has something gnawing at them. An item in life that, if they were to just unload or talk with someone, they’d be free to have a better day. Guess what? You’re that person in a new feature called “Let It Go”. Remember, if you offer frivolous items as suggestions for the feature, that’s what you’ll get on the phones. Thanks to The Big Dave Show, B105, Cincinnati, for this one.
The List, The List
With back to school happening in your market in the next few weeks, and with back to school shopping the big topic, invite mothers to come on to just read you the laundry list of stuff they have to buy their kid to get ready. New backpack? Check! Five subject notebook? Check! Protractor? Huh??? The mothers with the longest list of things the school is asking them to purchase will have some of the odder items, producing your most relatable and fun break.