If you live in a market with a sports team, see if one of the cheerleaders will help with a prom promotion. No doubt there’s a guy who can’t find a date for his prom. Guys put their bid in for The Perfect Prom, which is a date with one of the cheerleaders. Narrow the list down to three guys who each vie for the G-rated company of a cheerleader from the team.
There are two options if you have something to give out. Take caller ten (boring) or play a game listeners in their cars can play along with (fun). Always choose option number two. Here’s a new one: Backwards Then Forwards. Play the hook of a song in your format backwards. The first listener to identify the artist and song title wins. Then play the song forwards.
Easter is Sunday, April 20 this year. A fun thing to do is grab some Easter-related tongue twisters and challenge kids to do them (one site to find them is here). You’ll want visit a school or get kids you know in the neighborhood to do these so you have the audio all that week (instead of doing this over the phone where you don’t know what you’ll get).
With spring break here for most college students, here are a couple ideas that might work for you: conference call parents in with their college kid so they can tell them they’re also going on spring break at the same time and staying at the same hotel. See how they react! Also, ask students heading out on spring break to leave you a voicemail each night detailing everything they did that day while out having fun. Play the best parts of the emails you get to the audience on that day’s show.
If you want to bolster your Twitter followers, encourage listeners to follow you, then tell them that at 11:30 that morning, you’ll Tweet a restaurant location where you will be noon. First twenty (or however many people you can accommodate) listeners to show up get a free lunch with you guys. They can only get the location if they’re following you on Twitter!
With Lent being last week, round up a few people observing it, finding listeners who gave up things like coffee, Diet Coke, cursing, McDonalds, and cigarettes (and the like). Check on them throughout Lent to see how they’re doing. Then, the day Lent ends, bring them in for their first imbibing with the item they gave up to get their reaction live on the show.
A fun, new story-based and vicarious feature for the show is called “Did You Press Charges?” Listeners call with something that once happened to them. They tell you the story, then as a team, you try to guess if the listener pressed charges. If the show gets it wrong, the listener wins a prize. Thanks to The Pablo Show, WPGC, Washington, DC for this idea.
A show I work with was recently mentioning on the air the lack of pens to write with in the studio. So, a listener sent them a pen from her workplace. A quirky, odd idea might be called “Pen of the Day”. Encourage listeners to send you a pen from work; preferably one with their company information on it. Each day for a few weeks, with a fun production value, highlight the office by reading the information on the pen to the audience.
With this the final week of the Sochi Games, do “The Winter Sex Olympics” all week. Once or twice each morning, open the phones, taking calls from people who had sex the night before. Get the nationality of each person who admits to it, accumulating totals throughout the week. Then next Monday (after you do a final tally of sex through the weekend), raise the flag and play the National Anthem of the “winning” country, who wins gold!
The winter has been especially brutal in many parts of the country. When you have as much rain and snow as some markets have had, cars get really dirty very quickly. A fun morning show idea would be to ask some Chippendale’s Dancers, personal trainers, firemen, or male models to come wash cars with you one upcoming Saturday morning. Listeners can donate a small amount which you can give to a local charity. Call it “Good Looking Guys Cleaning Really Ugly Cars”. Make sure to send out press releases so TV cameras show up.