While conducting an in-station programming seminar a while ago, everyone on the staff came up tons of great new ideas as part of my “Unique Listening Proposition” exercise.
But I get the blame for this one, which somehow was sparked by something that someone else said.
The name of the contest pretty much says it all.
“Tell Us What You Know.”
1. The contestant tells you one thing they know.
2. You take what they told you and turn it into a question.
3. You ask them the question.
4. They answer the question (the answer to which you know they already know).
5. They win.
No one’s aired this yet.
Maybe you’ll be the first.
(Let me know how it goes, okay?)
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maybe im being naive here… but i dont get it.
It’s just crazy enough to work!
Maybe I’m naïve too. I mean, where’s the challenge? Where’s the suspense? As a passive listener this isn’t of much interest because I know the answer and I know the contestant knows the answer too. The other thing I know is next minute of my life will be wasted listening to the execution of a question, to which the result is already a foregone conclusion. It’s an interesting concept, but the execution needs a twist to involve all the listeners and not just the caller and the talent….
Maybe it could be more of the old Carson bit, “Stump the Band”… get the caller to tell the talent “Something I(the caller) Know”, if the on-air personality doesn’t know about it the caller wins. That might be a good way to teach a new host about his/her new market or it could simply be a way to share local information. Just thinking out loud here… (then writing it down).
We did this this morning. The girl who called had a conversation with the 23 people in her car to determine what she knew about. She decided on “the Air Force”. Our question was, “What is the primary fighting vehicle of the Air Force?” The answer from our caller, “Uh…a jet?” CORRECT! She wins! It was funny. Thanks.
~Brent
Im going to try this tomorrow.
With the way I run my show it will be really funny.
Furthermore, DaveL, this is all about the execution. You don’t tell the audience the entire bit. You simply say “If you can answer my trivia question you win ‘PRIZE X’. Person calls – you ask them what they know about – ask them a ? based on that and YAY WINNER! Some people will get it and some people wont. It’s like “Tad’s Crappy Casino” I did years ago. In a year of this bit there was never a winner, by design of course, and the listeners ate it up…
It’s all in the execution!
Great idea Dan.
I do something along the same lines with the “Lame Game of the day”. Caller nine is stupid. But, country still does it, and listeners expect it.So, be caller Nine and play, the Answer is Five, or What are you doing right now, and people eat it up. It’s dumb, but so is caller nine, so we might as well have some fun with it.