CPR Promotional Check-Up - Jul 18, 2022

Lemons. Lemonade.

This was probably off the radar for the US stations, but for the Canadian stations it was most certainly on the radar…but they probably couldn’t view it.

On Friday and into Saturday there was a massive internet and cellular outage that took down pretty much everything. 911. ATM’s. Most businesses’ abilities to do electronic transactions. So…Chris Myers with Harvard Broadcasting in Edmonton scrambled to get cash from his bank before THAT stopped being available and went to Tim Hortons and bought coffee and donuts for people.

The stuff that Sirius can’t do.

Laugh & Lose

This is a feature that they do at ‘DJX in Louisville. It’s a version of the 1970’s game show where contestants would have 60 seconds in a chair while up and coming comedians like David Letterman and David Brenner would use their best material on them. If they cracked a smile, they lost. Great idea…especially if you have a comedy club…

Overnights

Unless you’re a day timer, you have “something” on overnight, so why not do something that requires little or no effort?

Beasley in Ft. Myers had a rubberband ball as the overnight talent. He even had a jock bio. Why? Why not. This is Radio, not plasma physics.

The Night Before Christmas

One of the stations was wondering about “what to do” with the celeb interviews they get. And they get quite a few and they’re also backstage at a lot of shows.

The coolest thing I ever saw was a CHR that took “Twas The Night Before Christmas” and broke it into about 20 parts. And whenever they got someone either on the phone or in the studio, off-air they would have them read the verse. These were all edited together and ran during the last morning show before Christmas break. They had everyone from Will Smith to Jack Black.