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KYGO Owning the Broncos

January 31, 2016

Ryno & Tracy The biggest, boldest content you can do is something fun around something local. Live, local, and funny is the ultimate content, in fact. With the Broncos in the Super Bowl, Ryno and Tracy, KYGO, Denver have done a few things which are bulls eyes when it comes to sticky breaks around the highest relevant content of the moment. You’ll hear two examples below. One is the “Peyton Prayer” which has been done all season. In this weekly feature, a member of the clergy issues a prayer for the team. As you’ll hear, the goal is NOT to do religion, but use the vehicle to create humor. It’ll be quite obvious how this is done once you listen to it. The other is the “Broncos Roll”, a short, custom made song to support the team. In the latter example, music-based ideas really resonate with the audience. This fun song is their rallying cry of support for the team.

WUBE Rascal Cats

January 24, 2016

amandajesse_500x350 We always preach that the prize doesn’t get you the true win in a game or station contest, but the way you give it out. Amanda and Jesse, B105, Cincinnati, had Rascal Flatts tickets to give out. With the group coming to town for a concert, just taking caller ten on their fun afternoon show would have been blah, blah, blah to the audience. So they came up with a game called “Rascal Cats” where they replaced a word in a Rascal Flatts song with a cat screeching. This works for a few reasons: it’s vicarious (it gets passive listeners to play along) and those who have no interest in winning are laughing because of the twist.

MOJO Hi, This is Donald Trump…

January 17, 2016

Seizing the moment in pop culture extends past your content breaks so being about the topics of the day permeates everything you do. Detroit has a huge Muslim population. Mojo in the Morning, Channel 95.5, Detroit, excels at taking whatever is in the pop culture or news churn on any given day and owning it with their brand of innovation. The team had several liners cut by Eric Harthen, a great voice actor. Their audience knows it really isn’t Donald Trump voicing the lines – this is part of Mojo’s appeal – but they use Trump’s pronouncement to ban Muslims from entering the country to connect with and (important) entertain the audience with sweepers used to position the show as very contemporary and fun.

WUSN ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

January 10, 2016

wusn_lisaray_500x350 Despite our being just past the holidays, here’s a break from Lisa and Ray, US99.5, Chicago, that really excelled. Like many popular morning shows, the team was offered an interview with country legend Trace Adkins. Not content to just do a Q&A centered around his agenda, the team made the off-air ask and then wrote a Chicago version of the classic “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”. Trace consented and with his large, booming voice, read the poem in one of the breaks. We were uber local and affirmed our fun images. We always ask: what are we doing with this topic no one else thought to do? In doing so, we create an innovative moment which helps us bring the audience back again.

WQYK Hello

January 3, 2016

wqyk_daveveronica_500x350 The parodies of Adele’s hit “Hello” seemed to be endless. Turn left, right, move forward or backward, and people were having fun with this song. Even Adele did, too. When silliness abounds, Dave and Veronica, WQYK, Tampa are in as well. Here’s a break done using other songs with the word “hello” on their show. A break like this can be perceived as very cheesy if not presented properly. That’s not the case here as everyone in the room is in on the joke. Sometimes shows will miss having more fun with the shorter list of Hot Topics each day and grab a topic with less equity. Listeners gravitate to what’s familiar when they wake up. This is why it’s so critical to know the topics of the day (those with a very high level of familiarity) and come up with more things to do around them than wade into less-than topics which require the audience to use their brain to comprehend.

Kick-Ass Audio Breaks

KYGO Owning the Broncos

WUBE Rascal Cats

MOJO Hi, This is Donald Trump…

WUSN ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

WQYK Hello

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