Archive for category: Free Idea

The Countdown Clock

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.

Boats, Bikinis, Beer, or Bikes

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.

I’m Broke As a Joke

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.

Father’s Day 911

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.

Fathers Getting Respect on Father’s Day

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.

The Triple Crown of Trivia

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.

What Was Your GPA

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.

Your Graduation Speech

With all of the country entering high school graduation season, time to test the show’s ability to deliver a short, highly inspirational, fun commencement speech.  Each cast member writes a 60-second speech for graduating seniors.  Take a break or two to read them to the audience.  Then place them all online for the audience to vote who did the best job with those results the very next day on the show.

Who Was That Voicemail For?

Character development is always critical for a show.  The audience getting to know those parts of you they can relate to makes you real and human.  On occasion, play a saved voicemail from the phone of a cast member.  Bleep out the cast member’s name in the message (if there) and play it for the audience, who has to guess who it was left for.

Mock Your Mom

The topic of Mother’s Day is as viable the day after as it is the day before.  Invite kids to come on the show and ask them to do their imitation of their mother when she’s angry.  If you start with your kids, you’ll do some character development to launch the idea before opening the phones.

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