The Late Show - Tuesday Edition

49° - clear at 11:10pm

Late post; another busy day.

And thats a good thing!

Getting a moment to surf tonight - a couple of things that caught my eye:

Air talent and "roles". Dave Lange has a great post this morning about casting the airstaff - and it goes far beyond morning drive. Dave has some suggestions about the various roles members of your airstaff might take on:

• The "In Touch" jock
• The "Music Expert"
• "Everyday Joes"
• "Wild Ones"
• "Cool Ones"
• "The Mayor"

Dave mentions one other role: "The Rule Book" - noting though: "it's usually about as entertaining as listening to auto phone answer systems." Read Dave's entire post here. Well worth your time.

Halloween hits: Use this year. Print and save for next year. Consultant Guy Zapoleon (another influence of mine) posts a halloween song list here.
Thanks to Sean Ross for the tip!

Sunday Morning Odds & Sods

50° - clear at 11:50am. Frost last night!

Happy Sunday. Morning coffee accompanied by radio via the 'net. The usual. Later: Kids flag football - plus pumpkin and costume shopping.

Halloween fun: "Dead Bass Player Days" - from KKZX/Spokane - here. I did laugh out loud...very clever!

This Weekend: WCSX/Detroit is offering listeners a "Monsters of Classic Rock" Weekend (4 song blocks) - here.

WAQY/Springfield is doing a "Ghosts of Rock" Weekend. Its dead rockers. Here.

What is your station doing on air for halloween?

More Ghoul Tube. We mentioned WGRF/Buffalo's "Ghoul Tube" here the other day. A couple other stations on-board with the concept too. WCSX/Detroit has theirs here. Likewise with Citadel's KHYT/Tucson.

Clear Channel has "scariest music videos" on many of their station websites. Click the link here to see. Look at clip #12. LOL!

Classic Rock A to Z. Watching television last night - it looks like Jerry Seinfeld's "Bee Movie" might have some clips suitable for letter "b" imaging. Find trailer and clips here. I'm just thinkin'....

Geico Caveman. Rachel Veness at Geico emails to tell me that the Caveman's Crib interactive website has been updated. Fun stuff. Check it out here and be ready to point and click.

And: the actor who plays the Caveman for Geico - John Lehr - has a website. See the transformation to Caveman here.

Have a great Sunday!

Ghoul Tube From Buffalo's 97 Rock

WGRF/Buffalo PD John Hager continues to engage and his entertain audience - both on the air and on the web.

Every year close to Christmas - John has taken advantage of the free resources of YouTube and has come up with "Yule Tube" - a list of Classic Rock Xmas Videos.

Something I proudly ripped off while at a sister Citadel station!

Now its Halloween and John does it again. See here. Wonderful stuff Mr. Hager! This is something that any station can do - a list put together with a little imagination and a little YouTube searching. And another reason for your listeners to visit your website.

I'd rip this off no matter where I'm working. What a great concept!

And it looks like John's efforts are spreading to other Citadel classic rockers - here's one that even has it sold: