Tony and Kris, WIVK, Knoxville That’s All I Need to Know About You

Tony and Kris, WIVK, Knoxville do a daily feature called That’s All I Need to Know About You.  Each of us make daily, private judgments about people when we see them do something we think is stupid.  The guys are great observationalists and this plays off that strength.  Considering that real life is a treasure trove of terrific content, they offer up some inane thing they saw someone do and then tag on the hook line, “that’s all I need to know about you.”  The show then flips and asks the audience to call in with theirs, highlighting more content from listeners’ everyday lives.  This makes the program more relatable and more fun because listeners can go off on the inanity around them with others tuning in nodding yes and laughing along, heightening our relatable and authenticity images.

Certificate of Manchievment

Guys like to boast about all the manly things they do around the house.  Whether they’re deserved or not.  Here’s a new feature for the show where you give out Certificates of Manchievment to men who like to brag that they did something their wives or girlfriends might have liked.

Sarah and Jessie, MIX 96.5, Houston with Who Sent That Self-Help Book?

Sometimes, little things become big things.  Consider the mystery faced by Sarah and Jessie, MIX 96.5, Houston back in December.  Someone sent Sarah Pepper a self-help book from Amazon.  The only problem?  No one copped to it.  There wasn’t any receipt or note with the delivery acknowledging who sent it.  Small things can become big things.  And those big things can become defining things!  Sarah and Jessie set off to find out who sent the book and who thinks Sarah Pepper needs some help!  A question I often ask in a prep session to talent is:  what do you wonder about this?  Wonderment is a great place to start to come up with something creative.  They wondered if Sarah Frazier, Audacy’s market manager (and someone close personally to Sarah Pepper), sent it.  Ms. Frazier is always money on the air.  So they called her to ask.  Resulting in this tiny thing (getting a book from an unknown person) into a bigger, stickier thing, considering how much fun the conversation was.

It Sucks To Have That Truck

With gas prices off the charts, here’s a fun new game listeners in cars can play along with.  Truck owners call and give you the make and model of their vehicle.  Each person on the show then gets a crack at how much it costs to fill that truck up with gas.  Thanks to Kyle, Bryan, and Sarah, WRAL-FM, Raleigh for this idea.  One guy called and admitted to them it costs $250 to fill up his truck!

March Madness – The Office Pool

No doubt there will be lots of office pools with March Madness kicking off this week.  Each cast member of the show should solicit and join one office pool a listener invites them into.  Then, you can talk with the person coordinating the office pools each Monday through the tournament to see which cast member gets the furthest.

Kyle, Bryan, and Sarah, WRAL-FM, Raleigh We’re Rooting For You

Just coming off two years of Covid, with so many people isolated from the world except for what they had on Zooms, there is a general sense of isolation and loneliness.  Here’s where radio has shined.  Our ability to connect with listeners is unparalleled.  That’s why so many in the audience feel like they know us.  You must have that for this break to happen.  Kyle, Bryan, and Sarah, WRAL-FM, Raleigh have a vibe about their show where they root for people.  That’s who they are in real life, which is why it so easily transfers on-air.  This is a very simple phone topic that gets immensely human and personal.  A listener is starting a diet because she’s tired of how she looks. The show becomes very supportive of her.  That’s when she cries in front of them.  Because she knows they’re rooting for her.  Do you have that kind of relationship with your audience?

Toddler or Tipsy

Here’s a new game, compliments of Tony and Kris, WIVK, Knoxville called Toddler or Tipsy.  Listeners call with a story of something odd that happened to them.  You must guess if the story occurred when they were a toddler or after they had had a few drinks.