FATHER’S DAY PROMOTION IDEA/WHO DA MAN?

There are many skills required of men when they become fathers, learning to diaper the baby, teaching their kids to ride a bike and, most importantly, how to put toys and other things together using directions.  Becoming a father is easy, being a true man is not.  No father is truly a man until he [...]

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MY DAD SUCKED AT TEACHING ME THIS

Let’s face it.  Our dads weren’t good at everything a dad wants to be good at.  Any good dad spends a lot of his free time trying to teach his kids all manner of things, how to ride a bike, throw a baseball, etc.  But not all dads are successful in teaching these lessons.  For [...]

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FATHER’S DAY CONTEST/TRIVIA

Here are some trivia questions you could use to give away prizes for Father’s Day.  The data, by the way, comes from the U.S. Census Bureau. 1.  The number of stay-at-home dads, or Mr. Moms in America in 2006 were: A: 2.59 million B. 1.59 million C. 159,000. 2.  Among single parents living with their [...]

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FATHER’S DAY CONTESTING/WHO’S YOUR DADDY?

If you are looking for a fun contest vehicle to use to give away Father’s Day prizes consider the contest Who’s Your Daddy?.  You would give listeners the name of a famous celebrity son and clues as to who his celebrity dad is.  For example, Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen’s famous dad is a star in [...]

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FATHER’S DAY PROGRAMMING IDEAS/SHOW TOPICS

If you want to do a pretty straight ahead listener-call-in topic consider soliciting listeners for their favorite “Daddy-isms”, those unique only-dad-would-say-this pieces of advice that you’ve heard from him over in over in your life.  For example, my dad says the following to me on every birthday, “Happy birthday!  Consider the alternative.”  (And, he’s serious when he [...]

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FATHER’S DAY PROGRAMMING AND PROMOTIONS IDEAS/NEW GIFT IDEAS

The idea for an official Father’s Day celebration came to a married daughter, sitting in church in Spokane, Washington during a Mother’s Day sermon in 1910, two years after the first Mother’s Day observance in West Virginia.  But, it wasn’t until 62 years after it was proposed, in 1972 that Father’s Day was permanently established by [...]

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