The Morning Show Honor Wall

What would it be like if you made a commitment to elevate and celebrate people in your community who make a difference?  Volunteers, excellent teachers, emergency workers who always show up, those who run charities.  Profile them on your show to counter all the negativity in the world.  Then get a picture of them.  Clear off a wall in the studio and put the picture on the wall, adding to it as you profile these folks.  Call it the Morning Show Honor Wall.  That visual can be updated on social media as you add to it and you’ll garner an image of supporting your community.

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Remember when we were kids and went back to school and the teacher made us write an essay called How I Spent My Summer Vacation?  Well, let’s do that as content with schools going back in session in the next month,  Get your most entertaining co-workers to write and record that essay for your show.  Then, once kids go back to school, spend a week airing them!

The Great Elementary School Speed Trap

It’s been done before but always a hit.  With schools heading back in the next few weeks everywhere, partner with your local police department to set up a clandestine radar trap at an elementary school in a hot zip code.  Have the officer (or someone from the show who’s there), share speeds of cars passing through.  All in an effort to remind people to go the speed limit around schools when they’re in session.

The Name Game

A challenge for almost everyone is remembering the names of people you just met.  So, how about doing The Name Game with each cast member?  Take three calls from listeners who’ll give a cast member their name and an interesting fact about themselves.  The cast member must remember the names for 24 hours.  The next day at the same time, have back on all three listeners who offered up the interesting fact to see if the cast member remembers their name.  You can do this multiple times with everyone on the show to see who remembers names best.  Hear audio of this idea here.

Tales from the TSA

With summer vacation travel about to kick into high gear, airports will be quite busy.  Let’s lean into a group of people who have stories.  Tales from the TSA is where you get great travel stories from current and former TSA workers in your market.  Solicit for them offline then record a bunch you can air through the month as everyone will be at the airport, looking to head out of town for some time off.

The Citizenship Test – Who Knows America Best?

Who’s the most American of the people you work with?  Test them all with questions immigrants are asked to become citizens.  You can crown Most Patriotic of all you work with.

You’re Speaking My Language

With the FIFA World Cup the biggest story in America for the next few weeks, choose a premiere match up every few days and learn how to say simple things in those languages on the show by inviting in someone fluent who can teach them to you.

Dad Jokes on the Tens

Father’s Day is June 21.  Gather dad jokes from listeners this week – set up a phone line where they can leave their name, city, and dad joke.  Then, on your show this Friday, feature a listener with a dad joke every ten minutes.  If you wanna cover 6:00-9:00am, you’ll need eighteen (with no recycling).  Make it a theme this week to get them for a relevant Friday show.

Ten Dates in Ten Weeks

With ten weeks to go before Labor Day (the traditional end of the summer), how about re-kindling romance with Ten Dates in Ten Weeks.  Profile a different cool date locals could enjoy in your market.  This one is sponsorable so, share the idea with the sales folks so they can win, too.

250 on America’s 250

America’s 250th birthday will be a big topic in one month.  To tap in, can you get 250 kids to read the Pledge of Allegiance or get 250 people to meet you at a public location to sing the National Anthem?