What did you give up for Lent? Diet Coke? Chocolate? Cursing? Lent ends this week. Find three listeners who gave up something small, yet consequential to them (like the items listed), bring them in, and let them break Lent on your show. Can you imagine drinking the Diet Coke you love or eating chocolate for the first time in 40 days on the program? Could be fun to listen to, especially if you choose the right people and the right items.
Easter is not too far off. If you have some prizes to give out, have kids call in to do Easter tongue twisters. It’ll sound cute, even funny, as the kids botch them in an effort to win something. Of course be the good guys and give them the prizes anyway. Some Easter tongue twisters can be found here.
With The Sequestration in full-on mode and it occupying news space, here’s an idea, as done by Sean Henry at Lite Rock B103, Rockford, IL, that’ll be quite relatable to parents and kids. Call your spouse and children on the air to propose that all allowances in the household get cut by 1.7% (the sequestration cut) until it ends in Washington, DC. See how your kids and spouse react to that proposal!
The Pope resigns and people speculate what happened. Kim Kardashian gets pregnant and the rumors begin. Jack Nicholson approaches Jennifer Lawrence to proposition her at the Oscars and everyone guesses as to what’s up. All stuff ripe for gossip. As Americans we like to make stuff up when we don’t know the full story. Which leads to a new feature called, “What Aren’t They Telling Us?” You throw out the juicy pop culture or news item and listeners make up components of the story to begin the rumor mill!
Know what would be oddly entertaining? For each member of the show to record themselves knocking on the bathroom door while a family member is in there and say, “What are you doing in there?” Record the answers as the other person shouts back at you and play them on the show.
A friend mentioned how he went to get his car serviced one Saturday morning and they offered to detail it for $10 off. He did it, and then while riding down the highway after it was done, his antenna ripped off in the wind. So he went to the dealer and bought a new antenna. The price? $10! He then said, “That’s how life mocks me.” So, here’s a new feature called “That’s How Life Mocks Me” where listeners tell you stories about how they got a good deal, only for it to be negated by what happened to them just after.
With Fashion Week going on in New York City, grab a list of fashion designers and some names of people you’re personally friends with on Facebook for a game called “Fashionista or Facebook Friend”. It’s a fun, character building game you can play where, once you share the name, the listener guesses and you say things like, “He actually designs $1000 handbags,” or “I was buddies with her in fifth grade.” Thanks to Ty Bentli, from Ty Loves New York, NOW 92.3, New York City for this one.
With Alicia Keys now joining the long list of people who’ve sung the National Anthem at a Super Bowl, you can do “And the Home of the Brave” to celebrate. You will find at this link the list of artists who’ve done the Anthem at previous Super Bowls (Anita Bryant, Super Bowl 3!!). Find the audio of three artists on You Tube. Each of the three sing two words of the last line of the song. Edit them together. The first listener to correctly identify all three artists wins.
With Katie Couric’s interview of Manti Te’o last week, it’s now common knowledge that his “girlfriend” was really just a guy talking like a woman. Why not open the phones and get guy listeners to talk like a lady?
If you target women, you can never go wrong talking about relationships with kids. Either as a promotion or irregular feature, do “Daddy Dude Time”, highlighting the fun things fathers do with their young sons to bond with them on the weekend. It won’t be your standard thing…it’ll more be taking the kid to the WWE which will interest your female base to listen to.