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.
Kids are gearing up to get back to school over the next couple of weeks. Now’s a good time to find the most matronly sounding woman in the office who can act as your “teacher” on the air once a morning who’ll quiz kids, asking them questions about things they learned in the grade they were in last year to see what they forgot over the summer. Let’s see who gets detention!
Hard to believe that back-to school is upon us in the next few weeks. Jimmy Fallon slow jams the news. How about you getting all the elements in place to slow jam the school lunch menus?
July is the month for vacations. For those who’ve yet to take their summer break, they are mentally in countdown mode, ticking off the days until they don’t have to work. Open the phones to find those people to catch that vibe on the air. Then create a personalized countdown clock online for each person. You can put them on your website. Then check with those people on occasion until their vacation to let them know how many days/hours/minutes/seconds they have to keep it alive in on-air breaks.
Summer brings a much different lifestyle for the audience than the other three seasons. The next two months signal vacations, grilling, and hanging out with friends. Through the run of the summer, put in a phone topic each week called “Boats, Bikinis, Beer, or Bikes” where listeners must call you with a story that contains at least one of those words.
Seems like everyone is money stretched beyond repair. With payment for summer camps for kids, vacations, new beachwear, and other expenses, most everyone you know has no money. In a new feature that helps position you as just like the audience do “I’m Broke As a Joke” to convey your money woes to the audience, then allow them to do the same for you.
Lots of listeners celebrated Father’s Day this weekend. But a handful committed a major sin. They forgot to call their father. Here’s where Father’s Day 911 comes in. Find one or two, conference call their dad on the other line, and facilitate the apology on-the-air.
With Father’s Day just around the corner, time to convince your mayor (or another fun elected official) to come on the show to sign and read a proclamation pronouncing that in your town, fathers must be paid the same attention as mothers are on Mother’s Day. And that ties and cologne as gifts are now illegal.
With American Pharaoh winning the Triple Crown over the weekend, an appropriate game to play with the audience this week is the Triple Crown of Trivia. Gather several dozen intriguing trivia questions. Then open the phones. The first listener to answer three correctly in a row wins. Miss one and they’re done.
With high school graduations just wrapping up, find your transcripts and share them with the audience, revealing your graduating GPA. Then ask the audience to call with theirs and match it against what they ended up doing for a living. Are all the 4.0’s the people who have the best jobs? Here’s the test.