Contest: Secret Sound
The Secret Sound can be a simple feature on a radio show as a daily or weekly game. It's easy to play and can become a long-term contest, major promotion, or ongoing game. Execute...
Christmas Game: What’s That Ho Ho Ho Show
Games are one of the best types of segments to keep listeners engaged. It's not about the prize, but the play-along factor. And here is a great holiday game! What's that Ho Ho Ho...
Download: Christmas Songs Safe List
Here is a list of highly-researched Christmas songs safe list that should be a great starting point for most radio stations to program and scheduled Christmas songs, updated with fresh research for 2022, courtesy...
Promotion: Christmas Movies Bracket Challenge
Bracket-style promotions are popular, especially for events like March Madness, the NCAA Basketball tournament each spring. But creative radio stations or shows can use the same concept in a variety of ways including the...
Feature: Christmas Personal Playlist
All Christmas stations do well with rating services, but the Personal Playlist feature can extend warm holiday feelings beyond the music by encouraging the audience to have a personal stake in choosing the music.
This...
Game: Are You Christmas Smart?
Are You Christmas Smart game is a fun trivia game that is easy to play. Play it every day in December leading up to Christmas or make it a Christmas Smart week-long feature. Some...
Programming: The Santa Claus Show
It's one thing to add Christmas music to holiday programming. And it's fine to launch a holiday-themed promotion. But everyone else is doing that. How about hiring Santa as an air personality on The...
Major Promotion: Christmas Wish
Christmas Wish is a popular promotion, but not all of these campaigns are successful. This promotion requires a lot of coordination. Do it well and it can be a franchise that grows year after...
Play the Christmas Hits: And Here’s What Those Hits Are
Whether flipping to an All-Christmas format or just adding songs to an existing format, radio programmers should follow a longstanding programming guideline: Play the hits. But what are the Christmas hits? There are so...
Feature: We Need A Little Christmas
Here's a great idea for shows that are not playing All-Christmas music or aren't able to execute a major promotion like this, but want to reflect the mood and feeling of the holidays. We...
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