2026 Promotions & Marketing Calendar

2026 Promotions & Marketing Calendar

Make more money in 2026! Review these 32 sales promotion events. New Year’s Day, 1/1MLK Day, 1/19Grammy Awards, 2/1Groundhog Day, 2/2Super Bowl, 2/8Lincoln’s Birthday, 2/12Valentine’s Day, 2/14President’s Day, 2/16 (three-day weekend)Chinese New Year (Year of the...
Sports Talk Mirrors Music Formats

Sports Talk Mirrors Music Formats

Sports Talk radio is very different from music radio, yet it shares many skills, structures, and strategies. If you program one or both of these formats, consider these similarities: Strategic Content Rotation. Both rely on the hottest hits. Sports talk replays hot...
Sharpen Your Strategy

Sharpen Your Strategy

How do you attract more listeners and keep them engaged? Here is a winning framework for branding, relevance, and audience growth in today’s competitive radio landscape. Implement these six sizzling tactics to stay dynamic, engaged, and innovative. Stations deepen...
How to Grow Your Audience for No Expense

How to Grow Your Audience for No Expense

The #1 Internal Marketing tactic is Promoting Ahead. That was a key walk-away from John Lund’s NAB session on Talent Coaching. How about your show and station? Once you have all those people tuning in, how do you keep them? Great programming is the best start. But...
Master the Art of the Tease

Master the Art of the Tease

Teasing and promoting ahead aren’t just “nice to haves” …they’re the science of survival in today’s distracted world. Tease before every stopset. Promote the benefit, not the break. Make every tease a mini-ad for your show. Keep one eye on the next big moment, and...
Energize Your Talent

Energize Your Talent

…and Transform Every Performance How do you turn great talent into superstars across every media platform? At the recent NAB Convention, media strategist John Lund delivered a dynamic session packed with real-world strategies that help talented professionals...