Simple question which I am curious of everyone's opinion--During a Holiday or Host's vacation; do you prefer a Guest Host to fill in or just a running of "Best of" segments/shows?
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Guest Hosts or "Best ofs"
- Thread starter redsfan1966
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Best of's don't work on sports stations during most dayparts. Buried in the early morning weekend hours works.
Sports is something where you have to be current. Guest host by a mile.
The only time it might be acceptable to do a "best of" might be on certain holidays when there will be a lot of pre emptions for play by play. I could understand doing it on Thanksgiving and New Years Day. Or maybe Christmas when overall listenership will be very low.
The Outsider said:
On that note, I remember programming an ESPN station and them running YIR (year in review) programming on christmas eve/day and new years eve/day with the option of play by play...other than that, they are live.
I will tell you that I do have an idea for if I have to take a day off, not putting in a fill-in host but rather a radio mockumentary where I, the host, fictiously use the show as a base to rise to world power- only to lose it all- and we close with myself shouting about sports to people on the street.
I thought it would be good (and shameless) self-promotion and something that people would talk about for years afterwards.
But other than that, I think you're better off with live shows.
Side note- I will say that for special occassions, sometimes repeating a classic broadcast is not just okay- but fantastic. For instance, I know on Christmas a few years ago one of our local sports stations repeated the broadcasts of the Penguins winning the Stanley Cup and such- and it was great! Another station reran classic interviews of Myron Cope interviewing Art Rooney Sr. after the Steelers won the Super Bowl in 2008-09.
But yeah, rerunning a two-week old interview if your host calls in sick- lame.
I thought it would be good (and shameless) self-promotion and something that people would talk about for years afterwards.
But other than that, I think you're better off with live shows.
Side note- I will say that for special occassions, sometimes repeating a classic broadcast is not just okay- but fantastic. For instance, I know on Christmas a few years ago one of our local sports stations repeated the broadcasts of the Penguins winning the Stanley Cup and such- and it was great! Another station reran classic interviews of Myron Cope interviewing Art Rooney Sr. after the Steelers won the Super Bowl in 2008-09.
But yeah, rerunning a two-week old interview if your host calls in sick- lame.
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