Some More Limited Engagement Ideas
Not too long ago, I wrote out some limited engagement ideas which I felt would work well for getting subscribers. I was recently thinking about some other ideas that would just be cool for a weekend or two days. Some special modified programming just for certain channels.
Something honouring the great jazz bass players on Sirius 72 Real Jazz. Bassists like Charles Mingus made significant contributions on the music world, not just jazz by itself. Why not do a weekend of programming around some great jazz bassists and their compositions?
An entire weekend worth of bands doing other artists songs. This would be cool for Sirius 15 Classic Rewind or Sirius 19 The Boneyard. Sirius 27 Liquid Metal woiuld do well with something like this since many Metal bands have covered other bands songs. I would love to spend an entire weekend critiquing different versions of different songs. Might be kind of cool!
All live rock performances. There are so many great live albums in rock, that a weekend on Sirius 14 Classic Vinyl devoted just to these great performances would just make sense. Sometimes Deep Tracks Sirius 16 will play some great extended live versions of songs, so lets just have a channel takeover and call it something creative!
All Black Sabbath or Rush Radio. Surely The Boneyard Sirius 19 could spend a weekend or two playing music from my two favourite bands! Why the hell not! I am sure this would piss off a few people. Just like listeners were mad at having a month of Metallica straight. As good as they are, a month without other metal programming was weird.
You have any ideas? Post them in comments.
Reader Comments
I have to agree with you totally on this one. Spending an entire month of just one band’s songs like they did for AC/DC and Metallica is just way way way too much. No band deserves that. My idea would be to take one week, and feature a band, where you play that band’s tunes every 3rd or every 4rth song. That pleases the folks who like the specific band being highlited (and may actually introduce them to the other songs/bands being played on that station) and appeases the masses that listen to that channel for the regular programming. If this was adapted, I would love to hear bands like Rush, Black Sabbath, Guns n’Roses, Pink Floyd and the list goes on..
Steve, Thank you for your comment. What you suggest would work better than straight time for the one artist. throw in enough of a mix to keep things going but without losing focus on the featured artist. Good call.