Funniest radio promotions you have ver heard of

[Carlota69]

Just looking around thinking of great promotions and was wondering what other radio stations in other cities are up to.

I do a couple of things--Carlota's box Lunch ( Lunch req hour), Beat the Cock,(trivia timed game), mental Speedbump (No brainfart game) etc...

Also, I have in the past, ran around with a tip jar becasue eveyone thinks they should get a tip for simply doing their now. So hell, why not me? I gave the tips to charity, BTW. Thinking of a "dont be a gashole" promotion. We do poker tournaments, Rock and Roll bingo, Asphault Chef (its hot here!), etc....

Was wondering what fun radio promotion have you heard of or participated in?

[stumppy]

How about one to see who can jam the most ecstasy pills up their ass ?

[Dartgod]

Originally Posted by Carlota69

Ok, but HOW did she win it?

How is the lil woman anyways?

She's good. Looking forward to our October trip as am I.

Part of the trip was tickets to see Heart at HOB in Mandalay Bay. So they were running trivia contests (Heart related) each day for two weeks. She won one of the daily prizes and got her name drawn for the trip, which was the Heart tickets, 3 nights at MB and airfare. Awesome deal.

Her question was what former presidential candidate had an affair with Donna Rice (Gary Hart).

[Dartgod]

The Chiefs flagship station (101.1 KCFX) just completed a contest giving away gas cards worth $101. They gave away three each day except Thursdays which they gave away one every hour. Everyone who won a gas card was entered into a drawing for free gas for a year. I won one of the $101 cards but did not get the grand prize. I think they ran the contest for about 6 weeks so lots of cards were given away.

["Bob" Dobbs]

Originally Posted by stumppy

How about one to see who can jam the most ecstasy pills up their ass ?

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[Carlota69]

Originally Posted by Dartgod

The Chiefs flagship station (101.1 KCFX) just completed a contest giving away gas cards worth $101. They gave away three each day except Thursdays which they gave away one every hour. Everyone who won a gas card was entered into a drawing for free gas for a year. I won one of the $101 cards but did not get the grand prize. I think they ran the contest for about 6 weeks so lots of cards were given away.

Gas is a hot giveaway right now. I'm trying to come up with a "gashole" promotion...have the name...trying to get the concept together.

[bkkcoh]

One of the COlumbia, Mo stations was giving a gift certificate away to a local tatoo parlor.

[wilas101]

Originally Posted by Carlota69

Gas is a hot giveaway right now. I'm trying to come up with a "gashole" promotion...have the name...trying to get the concept together.

get some random listeners together and get someone from the station to be the target and let the contestants see who could say the most disgusting, insulting things to the target.

The winner gets the gas and is therefore the biggest gashole in vegas.

[Carlota69]

Originally Posted by wilas101

get some random listeners together and get someone from the station to be the target and let the contestants see who could say the most disgusting, insulting things to the target.

The winner gets the gas and is therefore the biggest gashole in vegas.

You might have something there....

[Baby Lee]

It's just wrong - best promotion evar!!

[ChiefsFanatic]

This does not really fit, but I still remember it. I am a little fuzzy on the details, though I do remember the basics.

A woman called up, and Randy Miller was giving away Roses. while the wife was on the line, he called the husband and told him that he had won a dozen free roses, and where should he send them. The husband gave his girlfriends address. The wife then started started screaming, or was upset.

Like I said, it was a long time ago and i can't remember all the details, but I remember laughing.

[sedated]

you could have contestants chug water

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16687211/

Criminal probe launched into water-poisoning
Family of contestant who died plan to file wrongful death suit, lawyers say

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As participants in KDND-FM’s water-drinking contest chugged bottle after bottle, a listener called in to warn the disc jockeys that the stunt was dangerous — and could be fatal.

“Yeah, we’re aware of that,” one of them responded.

Another DJ said with a laugh: “Yeah, they signed releases, so we’re not responsible. We’re OK.”

Those comments, and others made during the Jan. 12 “Morning Rave” radio show, appeared to give little regard to the risk of water intoxication — until a woman died just hours after imbibing nearly two gallons in the contest.

On Wednesday, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department launched a criminal investigation into the incident, and attorneys for the family of Jennifer Lea Strange said they plan to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the radio station.

The county coroner said preliminary autopsy findings indicate Strange, a 28-year-old mother of three, died of water intoxication.

DJs allegedly joked about dangers
Authorities decided to pursue the investigation after listening to a tape of the show, obtained by The Sacramento Bee, during which DJs joked about the possible dangers of consuming too much water, sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Tim Curran said. At one point, the DJs even alluded to a college student who died during a similar stunt in 2005.

Strange was one of about 18 contestants who tried to win a Nintendo Wii gaming console by determining how much water they could drink without going to the bathroom. The show’s DJs called the contest “Hold your Wee for a Wii.”

Several hours into the contest, Strange was interviewed on the air and complained that her head hurt.

“They keep telling me that it’s the water. That it will tell my head to hurt and then it will make me puke,” she said.

Eventually, Strange gave in and accepted the second-place prize: tickets to a Justin Timberlake concert. She commented that she looked pregnant, and a female DJ agreed.

“Oh, my gosh, look at that belly. That’s full of water. ... Come on over, Jennifer, you OK?” a male DJ asked. “You going to pass out right now? Too much water?”

Several hours later, Strange was found dead in her home.

[sedated]

Originally Posted by ChiefsFanatic

This does not really fit, but I still remember it. I am a little fuzzy on the details, though I do remember the basics.

A woman called up, and Randy Miller was giving away Roses. while the wife was on the line, he called the husband and told him that he had won a dozen free roses, and where should he send them. The husband gave his girlfriends address. The wife then started started screaming, or was upset.

Like I said, it was a long time ago and i can't remember all the details, but I remember laughing.

that sounds like war of the roses or something on 96.5.

they used to do that for people who thought their boyfriend was cheating.

[Carlota69]

Originally Posted by ChiefsFanatic

This does not really fit, but I still remember it. I am a little fuzzy on the details, though I do remember the basics.

A woman called up, and Randy Miller was giving away Roses. while the wife was on the line, he called the husband and told him that he had won a dozen free roses, and where should he send them. The husband gave his girlfriends address. The wife then started started screaming, or was upset.

Like I said, it was a long time ago and i can't remember all the details, but I remember laughing.

Thats hilarious!

I had a listener call me on accident one time. He thought he was calling his GF, and I played along. He thought his GF had a cold cuz it wasn't her voice, it was mine. He asked me if we were still meeting at the raisin fields. I said yes but were we going to be naked....He was like 'naked? no.." And I said "Why? Dont you want to get naked with me? Dont you think of me naked?" He got all shook up and said, 'yeah baby I think about you naked all the time!!" It was classic, especially becasue the real GF was listening, and they had never seen each naked before, until that night.

[Carlota69]

Originally Posted by sedated

you could have contestants chug water

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16687211/

Criminal probe launched into water-poisoning
Family of contestant who died plan to file wrongful death suit, lawyers say

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As participants in KDND-FM’s water-drinking contest chugged bottle after bottle, a listener called in to warn the disc jockeys that the stunt was dangerous — and could be fatal.

“Yeah, we’re aware of that,” one of them responded.

Another DJ said with a laugh: “Yeah, they signed releases, so we’re not responsible. We’re OK.”

Those comments, and others made during the Jan. 12 “Morning Rave” radio show, appeared to give little regard to the risk of water intoxication — until a woman died just hours after imbibing nearly two gallons in the contest.

On Wednesday, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department launched a criminal investigation into the incident, and attorneys for the family of Jennifer Lea Strange said they plan to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the radio station.

The county coroner said preliminary autopsy findings indicate Strange, a 28-year-old mother of three, died of water intoxication.

DJs allegedly joked about dangers
Authorities decided to pursue the investigation after listening to a tape of the show, obtained by The Sacramento Bee, during which DJs joked about the possible dangers of consuming too much water, sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Tim Curran said. At one point, the DJs even alluded to a college student who died during a similar stunt in 2005.

Strange was one of about 18 contestants who tried to win a Nintendo Wii gaming console by determining how much water they could drink without going to the bathroom. The show’s DJs called the contest “Hold your Wee for a Wii.”

Several hours into the contest, Strange was interviewed on the air and complained that her head hurt.

“They keep telling me that it’s the water. That it will tell my head to hurt and then it will make me puke,” she said.

Eventually, Strange gave in and accepted the second-place prize: tickets to a Justin Timberlake concert. She commented that she looked pregnant, and a female DJ agreed.

“Oh, my gosh, look at that belly. That’s full of water. ... Come on over, Jennifer, you OK?” a male DJ asked. “You going to pass out right now? Too much water?”

Several hours later, Strange was found dead in her home.

I know some promo people at the station that got royally thrown under the bus on that one. One guy just deleivered the winner sheet and he got blown out. The whole thing, most of all the death, was tragic.

[wilas101]

Originally Posted by Carlota69

You might have something there....

It could be funny as hell if you were careful about the screening process of the contestants to ensure they were quick thinkers and honestly had a streak of prick in them that would allow them to be as mean as possible.

Take the resident whipping boy and throw him to the wolves in front of a crowd.


If you were to actually use the idea just make sure you let us know how it goes over or if the station broadcasts on the internet so we could listen.