So they're going give me a radio show...

[lakefront]

Since sports have been SUSPENDED for the time being, our commercial radio station GM said -- "if you want a Saturday morning time slot, it's yours. we need some original content."

Why not?

So I've been thinking - -I only want to start out with 30 minutes, and least I can say "I'm just like every one else in the market giving you 30 minutes of quality radio a week." One guest only. A relatively big get -- for us it would be a Vince Carter type -- so it'd be worth the listener's time.

We kicked around other segments -- "People plugging stuff" as well as "A trumpster, a Black guy, a pompous media type and me shouting at each other for 30 minutes" but those didn't resonate. [That was a joke at first...]

Any suggestions? I'll listen.

How about rooting for the laundry when it comes to sports and politics. Do people see the connection? would it make them more open to questioning all or nothing loyalty to party or player. You could point out the fans love, devotion, excuse making for a player...until they leave their team. Do they even see that this happens the same in sports and in politics.

 

[Danwriter]

On radio, no one can tell if you're masked.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

No callers. They are idiots. Even more than the hosts.

Treat it like a podcast.

 

[maumann]

On radio, no one can tell if you're masked.

On radio, no one can tell if you're naked. And yeah, I've heard some crazy stories where the next person has gotten a shock from the jock.

I have been mooned while doing the news in an effort to make me laugh. Didn't work, but I did lose it one time when a huge rack of advertising cartridges landed on the jock by accident and all I could see were his shoes, like the Wicked Witch.

 

[Batman]

If you can recruit a co-host, I'd suggest it. We did a local football show last season with three or four people. It was an hour long on Friday morning, and there were a few times I either wasn't completely woken up yet or found myself spacing on a particular game. The others on the panel helped fill what certainly would have been dead air or awkward conversations if it had just been one or two of us. Most times the hour flew by and we still had items on the rundown at the end.

Depending on what format you settle on and how long the show is, I'd also suggest not being afraid to veer off of traditional sports topics. You obviously can't do that if you bring on a guest to talk about a particular topic, but if you have to go it alone you don't want to stray into the "Does Pete Rose belong in the Hall of Fame?" and "What is Tom Brady's real legacy?" types of topics.

For the long term, try to find an identity and figure out an audience. You work at an HBCU, so maybe that's an underserved topic you could mine without going too far down the rabbit hole of being a niche show. There are a lot of issues going on with those right now, especially with your school switching conferences, that could easily fill a show with and make it interesting to a wider audience.

 

[Batman]

As someone who had done radio shows, I would do a minimum of one hour. After you get done with obligatory stuff 30 mins is actually like 23.

Good point. Having listened to a lot of talk radio, I think there might be about 40 minutes of actual content per hour once you get through the news updates and commercials. Most shows don't even start until the :06 and :36 minute marks of each hour and then have a break somewhere in the middle. By the time you set up a topic you're halfway through those first 24 minutes.

 

[Liut]

Learn quarter-hour maintenance pertaining to what adcs and Batman addressed just above.

 

[HanSenSE]

Spend 30 minutes a week talking about the shirt going on at SJ.com.

Poin Files are worth a special segment.

 

[Twirling Time]

Three phrases.

Show prep.

Show prep.

And show prep.

 

[britwrit]

Just from listening to a whole bunch of podcasts, you can cruise along nicely with a good mix of guests.

 

[TigerVols]

Three phrases.

Show prep.

Show prep.

And show prep.

And also: always have a backup plan for every segment.

 

[SportsGuyBCK]

Poin Files are worth a special segment.

Poin Files are worth a whole month of special segments ...