Gyms are packed the first few weeks of January with people working on their resolution to lose weight. Send someone from the show to a very busy gym in town to reward people leaving with doughnuts just to hear their reaction.
Gyms are packed the first few weeks of January with people working on their resolution to lose weight. Send someone from the show to a very busy gym in town to reward people leaving with doughnuts just to hear their reaction.
A very big thing happening, especially while you’re on-the-air, is that a healthy contingent of people will be heading to the gym right at the stroke of sunrise to get in shape as a resolution. Your job is to do something interesting with it. Which is why you’ll become the “support network” for some of them by calling a few early in the 6:00 hour (or even earlier if you’re on) to make sure they’re either up getting ready to head to the gym or on the way!
The yearly bit of the morning show gifting each other and then opening those gifts on their last show before Christmas has no listener benefit because the gifts are serious and listeners are not getting them. How about doing Secret Santa each day in this last week before the break with a few fun station employees? The change is that anything you buy for the person you choose cannot exceed $1 in value and must be purchased at the Dollar Store. Buy things you know will make that person laugh or have an emotional reaction as they unwrap it on the air. The listeners will get the best gift of all, laughter.
Ryno and Tracy, KYGO, Denver came up with a fun game called “Trust Me, I’m a Radio Host”. Each gives a quirky trivia fact to a listener. Only one is true. Which of the two hosts can be trusted? Get three of five right and you win. Games work when they have a “play along” element to them for people in the car and are based around content (in this case quirky trivia) that’s fun to hear.
The morning show at Wired 97.5, Philadelphia did something fun I’d never heard before. They put a bleep over a word in a song that, effectively, turned the line (and song) naughty. They put a series of them together and were quite fun to listen to. You can call this The Censored Song.
With the new Xbox One and PlayStation 4 now out, many female listeners will lose their guy to video games. Time for you to come to the rescue. Offer to these women a group date with the metrosexual on your show. Take them out Christmas shopping, for a holiday drink, or a lunch to show them love and affection from the guy on your program who doesn’t care about video games!
Dave Ryan on KDWB, Minneapolis played a fun story-based game with listeners the other week. It’s called “The TMI Game”. Listeners call you with a story that, at some point, has too much information (they tell you something you’d wish you hadn’t heard). Best story gets a prize.
With Thanksgiving a few weeks away, many listeners will be hosting their families. That means tension, arguing, and wishing they’d leave early. Go grab two nights at the cheapest local motel. Give them out to a listener who can predict they’ll get tired of their family two days into the Thanksgiving holiday.
For us, as kids, it was always the home of the Axelrods, five doors down. For Halloween, they gave out those small bags of potato chips you get with sandwiches at restaurants. Not too far from them, a dentist gave us floss. We were ten-years old and we wanted…candy. The Crappy Candy House allows you reminisce about the home in your neighborhood that gave out the non-Halloween treats. Bonus points if kids talk about the home in their neighborhood that will give out bad treats Thursday night and you have some sort of intervention to fix that for them.