CPR Promotional Check-Up - Oct 22, 2021

Halloween Imaging

Halloween is like Christmas; it’s a vibe you can wrap around everything the station does. Kiss in Dallas did Pay Your Bills imaging ala The Addams Family. Hot in DC used ghosts in their Bills imaging a couple of years . And in the meantime, why not parody some television promos?

CSI:(Your Market) There are only 1000 versions of CSI on TV. This could either stand for Costume Safety Inspector (with the promo being done by your mom) or Costume Sexiness Inspector. “Not slutty enough! Go home and lose the bra!”

Dancing With The Dead Stars It’s inexplicable, but huge. And tattoo’ed on the gray matter of your listeners, so parody the TV spot and use your event as the after-party or, “Followed by an all new (event) at 8!”

Halloween At The Kardashians Three vacuous women talking about how their costumes make their butts look big.

Transyvania’s Got Talent

The Big Boo Theory

And these

• You definitely want the “I got a rock!” line from “The Great Pumpkin”
• We’re not dead…we just smell that way. Happy Halloween from (station)
• You’ll always be our boo…Happy Halloween from (station)
• Halloween...not just for people who like to dress up flamboyantly in makeup anymore
• Halloween...costumes, bobbing for fruit, music...it's a pageant!
• You know the guy from HR you caught stealing your food from the frig...rubber bat in his yogurt? It's Halloween. All bets are off. Bats too.
• (Station) #1 with Pagans and midnight pentagram burning devil worshippers. Without the rap.
• Halloween 2021 is brought to you by Depends, for those moments when you just are too scared to look for the nearest restroom
• Trick or treat. Trick? As a verb? Cool. As a noun? A john. Because at (station) we know this stuff.
• At (station) we don't think that Freddy Kreuger is evil...he's just misunderstood. And potentially over-qualified to be a DJ.
• What part of "Bustin' makes me feel good!" are you unclear about? Happy Halloween from (station)
• Halloween: think of it as New Years Eve with some flair. Happy Flair News Een from (station)
• Pumpkins are to Halloween, what turkeys are to Thanksgiving and trees are to Christmas. But turkeys and trees don't smash really well on the hood of your neighbor's car.
• (Station): where scaring the (bleep) out of you is a 24/7 operation
• (Station), as a kid (morning guys) mom dressed him as a Tellatubby for Halloween. And that explains a LOT.
• "The Blair Witch Project"? No...we didn’t get it either.
• (Station's) Halloween Tip #247: don't say "Nice costume!"...until you're sure that it IS a costume.
• (Station's) Halloween Tip #315: When going as a biblical era leprosy victim, pepperoni slices are credible and yummy sores!
• (Station's) Halloween Costume Tip #349: Ghosts? Cool. Floating orbs of gelatinous protoplasm? GOLD!
• (Station's) Halloween Tip #741: When you are setting up to prank the neighbor kids, creating fake headstones with their names on them will get their attention. And the police's too.
• (Station's) Halloween Tip #684: Flaming bags of poop on the neighbor's doorstep is SO 1984. Friending them with serial killers on Facebook?? GOLD.
• Follow us this Halloween on Facebook Dead.
• (Station) where we float…we all float down here Richy.
• Matt in the (station) IT department is really tired of eveil clown jokes, so please don’t knock at his door this Halloween.

And the link below has a lot of imaging and promos from past ‘weens including Monster Cash from Oldies in Peterborough. Stream cprpromo | Listen to Halloween playlist online for free on SoundCloud

Halloween Weekends

Great stations do great weekend themes. Kiss in Dallas would be one of those stations. And the next two weekends are gimmes. Too easy to pass up. These are all based on who and what your abilities are to take texts, calls and interact.

Hallow-scream Having listeners scream on the air is analogous with waterboarding the audience. With that said, if you have passes to a haunted attraction, mike the morning show and send them through. The audio of them shrieking would be the call to win.

Ticket Slasher There are slasher flicks. Now, we have a ticket slasher. And he’s slashing and slashing and slashing…prices down to zero.

Pick A Crypt Very simple. You create a sleazy game show (g)host who walks the caller through the choice of three crypts. They win whatever’s inside.

The RIP Club Take the contesting off air and load up you FWB or A List or Loyal Listener stash with stuff like certificates to costume shops, or tickets to haunted attractions or passes to your themed Halloween club event.

Texts From Beyond The Grave Have a Ouija board on the website. At the top of each hour it will move around and spell out a term to text in when cue’d later in the hour. Either that or have a Magic 8 Ball shake up and whatever word appears, that’s the term.

Haunted Prize Closet They had a nice build up to this at Wild in SFO where it was presented as the Prize Closet was haunted by an old intern. They would send their paranormal investigator to try and reach the spirit. He’d knock on the door, proclaim that he came in peace and the door would creak open and prizes would be thrown at him while a ghost screamed at him to leave. You basically didn’t know what you won until it was tossed out the crack in the door.

Jammityville Horror A Dr. Dave idea from KSFM in Sacramento. You had 30 seconds to escape a haunted house while being chased by a maniac with a chain saw, using only directions said to the DJ. Left, left, right. If he/she said no, you tried another prompt.

Bootique At the end of the day, costumes are good prizes.

Hits From Hell Also done as an “Old Ghoul Weekend”. One hit wonders and other throwbacks.

Beat The Chainsaw We tend to forget that haunted hayride, corn maze and other seasonal entertainment tickets are great prizes. Especially in a bad economy. If you have a stack of them, play Beat The Bomb. But with a chainsaw. You keep taking tickets until you quit/stop or are killed by a maniac chainsaw-wielding monster. And then you get nothing.

Back That Broom Up This was a Hot 107.5 contest from that awarded tickets to “The Conjuring) and passes to their haunted house.

Psychic This came up at a Wild/Tampa brainstorming session. Hourly callers would place their hand over the phone and the “palm reader in the studio” would see their future, ie: “Greg, I see you in a packed stadium, surrounded by screaming fans…and Taylor Swift is singing on stage.”

Exorcising Prizes It seems that your designated caller has become “possessed by evil prizes” and with the help of your DJ, you exorcise them out…with the resultant spewing SFX. This is one of those contests where you don’t find out what the prize is, until it’s, uh, out.

Things That Make You Go Poo This has been done with “poo” and “boo”. Either way, you give tickets to the scariest Halloween movie that’s out (or six packs of scary DVD rentals), plus Depends diapers.

Hallow-winning They did this at one of the CBS stations and had listeners call when they heard the Bride of Frankenstein experience “multiple goregasms” to win a jamolantern, a video of “The Mummy” and “enough candy to rot Dracula’s fangs.”

Knock Knock Knocking On DJ’s Doors This was a KDWB weekend where the hourly caller picked which DJ they wanted to trick or treat at. This was followed by wind SFX, the crackling of feet on dried leaves, and the thump thump thump as they climbed the front steps. There was a knocking and then “the DJ opened the door, said some stuff, put some stuff in their bag, and then slammed the door.” The jocks pre-recorded all their bits. It was pretty funny and each fit their personality to a “t”. You didn’t know what you won until they slammed the door and you looked in your bag to see what they gave you.

Radio Chamber Of Horrors This was at Power 102 where the hourly caller was led through a theater-of-the-mind haunted house by the DJ. At the end of the long, dark hallway they had three doors to choose from to get out. They basically won whatever was behind the door they chose...except one door revealed a chainsaw wielding maniac who eviscerated the caller.

The 12 Days Of Halloween Get the interns to record the Christmas carol re-written for this holiday and use that as the cue to call.

Ghoul Or No Ghoul You get a prize and can trade up or keep it.