With the Winter Olympics not too far off, how about the air staff engage in a curling competition? The morning show can take on the rest of the personalities. The competition can be recorded for the web, you can have heats and a true curling champion crowned, which will put your talent front and center that week.
With seemingly everyone sick with the flu, here’s a fun game to play with listeners called “Ten Seconds to Live”. Put together a short list of diseases no one gets any longer that may be fatal or that people rarely get. Then, cruise WebMD for its symptoms. Give the listener the symptoms and then give them ten seconds to name the disease for a prize.
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.