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This was worse then even they imagined. If you feel obligated to solicit donations, Samaritans Purse is an outstanding organization that Hubbard in Cincinnati has partnered with many times. They’re accountable, the money actually GOES to the disaster zone, it’s used effectively and they’re tremendous to work with. https://samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/hurricane-ian/

Crocktober

An amazing name from Kerri Stein at LM Communications that could be applied to something crockworthy if you’re in a crockcentric market. Minnesota? There could be a crockpot on the state flag.

So maybe it’s recipes? Maybe it’s a Crock Off between the moms of the morning show? It could be filling one up with beans, posting the photo and going high/low to win a crockpot.

The Inflation Station You have to be really careful with working terms like “Recession” and “Inflation” into group contesting monikers or themes. Because it will just bring everyone down. But an Alpha PD may have just figured out how to walk ...

Breastivus Breast Cancer Awareness Month starts on Friday and it’s an amazing cause that pretty much touches every family at some point. But it doesn’t have to be just an October “thing”. CBS in San Francisco did a Breastival event with food and ...

Download Our App(etizer) Hubbard in the Twin Cities and in Seattle have done a great job of incentivizing app downloads. With Thanksgiving around the corner, could you offer up cheese and cracker trays or veggie and dips for people who download your app? Or at least ...

Fiona The Maritimes got pounded on Saturday. Hurricanes are like blizzards: they are social media events. JACK in Halifax did a great job of providing data and also engaging the audience with some posts that invited a response, ie: “Here’s how we’re ...

Trash Cleanup This is absolutely outstanding. There is a particularly “cluttered” intersection in Portland so Jake and Danny from 98.7 The Bull have relocated there in their swanky station RV and are living there until it’s cleaned up. The beauty of ...

Various Car-Related Clients One of my friends did something ridiculously irresponsible a few weeks back and she got a DUI. It’s her first and hopefully her last. And maybe Arizona has harsher rules for first offenses but she’s looking at 30 days and ...

Endorsements Steve Jones had me get out of bed at some un-Godly hour and go downstairs to the hotel conference room in Moncton to do a presentation. I was going to go back upstairs and go back to sleep but he told me to stick around because the next guy, Tommy Kramer, ...

Teen Of The Week That sounds like a website I’m sure we can come up with a better name We do Teacher Of The Week. Pet Of The Week. Office Of The Week. Why not teens or “highschool student”? Netflix As Applied To Group Contests From Jeff Haber at ...

(Market) Mommies One of the Market Managers saw the Military Monday’s feature that WQYK in Tampa and asked if I’d seen anything that worked for a Female audience and with the opportunity for multiple clients to get on board. Easy: a station up here did ...