CPR Promotional Check-Up - Nov 12, 2020

The Power Present

I think there are a multitude of reasons why we can’t crack 4% of the audience when it comes to playing our games. And one is that they’re boring. There’s no show business.

You tell people what they can win, they text, they win, and somewhere in Irkutsk a puppy dies.

JACK in Halifax is awarding prizes by reaching into a backpack and you win what the DJ pulls out, in a theater-of-the-mind kind of way.

Power in Miami when Tanner was working with them did it as the Power Present. You called, the DJ got your name, looked under the tree in the studio, found yours, shook it a little, and then unwrapped it and told you what you won. Done as “What’s In Santa’s Sack?” at Wild in SFO.

War Of The Worlds

Another Project Down & Dirty is under their belt at myTalk 107.1 in the Twin Cities. For the uninitiated, once a year all of the hosts get together and create an event or enterprise in a finite period of time. This year, they did a dramatic presentation, live, of Orson Welle’s classic broadcast “The War Of The Worlds.”

It raised $106,000 for great, vibing Minnesota charities.

Part of the PDD experience is that the prep, the training, the practicing, all of it is shared for the audience.

And here was the live stream.

You have an opportunity coming up with….

….A Station Christmas Pageant

One of the CHR’s had a history of getting a LOT of artists and entertainers coming through so over the course the year, they’d have the guest cut a line from “The Night Before Christmas” which they aired on the last morning show before Christmas. Will Freaking Smith cut a line.

It's only about a four minute read so what if you made it an element of a bigger Christmas pageant?

Ted & Amy at 93Q in Syracuse do a pageant every year and obviously this year will be virtual.

You’ll want to have music, maybe the staff filling in for kids who normally do some kind of play or skit, virtual mistletoe, Santa, the GM who can stand in as the audience’s bosses so you can drunkenly tell him/her off, a Yankee swap and an ugly sweater contest.