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The Hallow Queen

Two ideas this week:

Here’s Halloween again.  This one’s only good for the day of the holiday.  Find a fun gay guy who’ll be your queen.  He takes calls from listeners who have no idea what to go as for Halloween night.  Using his sense of humor, he offers up the least appropriate, over-the-top suggestions to the listeners calling.  He’ll be known as your Hallow-Queen!

What does every kid do when they get home after trick or treating Halloween night?  They segregate their candy into two piles – the candy they want and the candy that’s crap.  Tuesday morning of this week (the first show after Halloween), put on kids who’ll tell you about the candy they got the previous evening which was horrible, then trade them.  Have candy they want and swap it out.  It’ll sound cute and play into a memory every listener has!

Colonel Gaddafi Spelling Bee

With the death of Colonel Moammar Gaddafi, it’s time for another thrilling round of the “Colonel Gaddafi Spelling Bee”.  This one’s quite easily and exceptionally silly.  Tell six listeners you have a prize for them with a mystery question about the Colonel.  Load up the phones, and once on the air, tell them to spell Gaddafi.  Here’s the fun part, no matter how they spell it (as long as there are a zillion consonants said), they win.  Set them up in the phone screening to be in on the joke!

Siri, The Talking Assistant

With the new iPhones 4s out to very good reviews, the most talked about feature about the phone will be Siri.  No doubt everyone who has one, throughout the weekend, has been playing with this talking assistant.  In fact, Apple seems to have a sense of humor.  If you ask Siri to do something obscene, it’s likely she’ll offer back a shocked response.  Time to get an iPhone 4s and play with Siri on your program.  If you cannot locate one, head to an Apple store to record it and/or remember that YouTube (click here to get there) probably has lots of videos posted by now where you can download the audio.

The Great Ball Drop

Dave Ryan at KDWB, Minneapolis and Karson & Kennedy at MIX 104.1, Boston just did a very fun thing to give out a unique prize.  It’s the “The Great Ball Drop”.  They “gave” some listeners a golf ball (assigning each a number).  Dave dropped the balls down a stairwell, Karson and Kennedy dropped theirs off a roof.  The number on the first ball call caught by the intern below won the prize.  It sounded awesome on the air in both cases.  Click here to see Dave’s video, click here to see Karson and Kennedy’s!

Your Grammar School Crush

How about finding the grammar school crushes of all the members of the morning show?  Wouldn’t it be interesting to introduce them to the audience and find out what they’re doing now?

The Candy/Pumpkin Procrastinators

Halloween is less than one month away.  Plan now on a city-wide broadcast that morning (it’s on a Monday this year) where the rest of the air staff is on the show live from major intersections in town where they’re handing out pumpkins and/or candy the morning of the holiday to people driving to work who forgot to buy either (both).  You’ll sound like you own the town and will get people on the air having fun while driving into work!

Let Me Meet Your In-Laws!

“Let Me Meet Your In-Laws” is a new feature we’ve added to Karlson & McKenzie, WZLX, Boston. Kevin Karlson is always putting his mother-in-law on (she’s very entertaining) so we’re now asking listeners to introduce us to their in-laws, believing we’ll meet some real characters.

Brad Pitt or Pit Stop

Karson and Kennedy at MIX 104.1, Boston came up with a very simple game to play with the new Brad Pitt movie, Moneyball, coming out this weekend.  It’s called “Brad Pitt or Pit Stop”.  Correctly tell them if the name they give you is a character Brad Pitt played in a movie or a NASCAR driver and you win.  Add in a fun production value and you have an easy, fun topical game!

Dancing With the Stunt

Karson and Kennedy at MIX 104.1, Boston are doing an interesting thing to tie into this new season of “Dancing With the Stars”.  It’s called “Dancing With the Stunts”.  They’ve put a different stunt into an envelope marked with a contestant’s name.  The morning after that celebrity is eliminated, they open the envelope and the producer must perform the stunt inside.

Let’s Meet the Lunch Ladies!

Let’s Meet The Lunch Lady!  Get the schools in the hot zip codes for the radio station and let’s make stars out of the lunch ladies in the kitchens of the grammar schools!  You’ll create a buzz inside that school (and with the parents).

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