Here’s a fun street/game idea compliments of XYZ with Erik Zachary (syndicated, Skyview Networks) where they quiz people at bars while out Friday and Saturday nights. Trivia works all the time as it’s vicarious. When you add people who are tipsy, it gets even better. They call it Drink and Think!
With this being the last week of the Winter Olympics, get on YouTube and download cheesy versions of national anthems. It could be a fun game where you play a version and the audience has to identify the country as athletes win gold.
You can do this with two cast members who have significant others or two listeners. Find someone musically inclined and, getting to know the significant others (of the cast or two listeners), have them write and record a custom love song as a Valentine’s Day gift. The two songs get performed on the Friday show in front of the significant others and then the audience decides which one is better.
A big Hot Topic this week is the Super Bowl. It might be fun to do your parody of this by using…Uber! Lots of people have Uber Eats on their phones. Why doesn’t every cast member of the show order the same thing from Uber Eats at the same time during the show? Then, track to see whose delivery comes first. That person is the winner of your Uber Bowl. Plus you’ll have drivers to talk to on-the-air and get some stories from them of deliveries made that went sideways.
Have you ever seen those YouTube videos where kids are listening to Led Zeppelin or the Carpenters for the first time? You get to see their physical reactions and the comments sometimes are very funny. With him performing at the Super Bowl halftime show, why don’t you get to an assisted living facility and do that with Bad Bunny’s music? Great audio for the show and video for social media.
The Super Bowl is less than one month away. If you’re looking for a week-long, big thing to do around the topic, do the Super Bowl Showdown. Each cast member must learn how to kick a 10-yard field goal at a high school stadium. Find local coaches as mentors for each cast member. Then on Thursday of that week, go do it. Post your videos on social and let the audience vote for who did it best, with the results on the Friday show.
An easy way to broaden contributors to your show is to ask the audience to call and tell you what they’re an expert in. Compile the list and gather their contact information. Then if a news story appears where one of your experts can add to the content or you find an especially quirky person you can build a feature around, you have more people adding to your show.
January means resolutions which means many listeners are waking up early to go to the gym. Find a few and be their 6am phone call to make sure they’re up and on the road to work out! It’ll be very funny if they stop answering or you get their voicemail!
Can you find a bunch of local musicians (or a band) and bring them in at some point this week to perform a few Christmas songs? Bill them as the Trans (Your State) Orchestra? The Trans Siberian Orchestra seems to be everywhere each Christmas and this might be a fun play on that.
If there’s one thing most people can’t do its properly gift wrap a present. Which is why you’ll assemble folks for The Great Gift Wrap Challenge. Bring in those people at the mall who professionally gift wrap presents to judge a competition amongst the most fun people at the station. See who wraps it best. You’ll have a great video for social media and audio for your show to entice people to go see it.