The spread of COVID 19 has created unprecedented challenges for radio broadcasters. The situation is evolving rapidly and it can be hard to keep up. Our goal is for these pages to serve as an easy to use carefully curated resource for ideas, examples and best practices to help guide your station through the current crisis.
If you have suggestions for other information that would be helpful, please let us know.
Radio and COVID-19 Research
To better understand radio’s role in the coronavirus crisis, we surveyed radio listeners. See the results:
Programming Ideas
- Jacobs Media’s COVID-19 Checklist for Broadcasters
- Interactive Programming Ideas for Radio Stations During the Pandemic
- 10 Ways Radio Stations Can Help Their Communities During the Coronavirus Pandemic
- Programming Ideas for Mothers Day and May 2020
Programming Examples
- COVID-19 Radio Imaging Productions Examples
- WRIF’s Zoom Backgrounds
- Beasley Boston’s Operation: Gift Card
- FMX Listeners Take Quarantine Pictures With Their Pets
- 97.3 The Fan’s Virtual Opening Day
- KISW’s Essential Workers Weekend
- WMMR’s Preston & Steve Puzzle
- Recreating Famous Paintings
- Recreating Movie Scenes
- Brands are making ‘social distancing’ logos
Digital Tips
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For the Unemployed
- Add Yourself to Our Directory of Radio Talent for Hire
- Apply for an Emergency Grant from the Broadcasters Foundation of America
The COVID-19 Landscape
- Sales of Instruments and Music Gear Are Soaring. Will Quarantine Spark a Renaissance? (Rolling Stone 4/24/20)
- America’s ‘new normal’ will be anything but ordinary (CNN 4/17/20)
- Live Concerts Won’t Return Until “Fall 2021 at the Earliest,” Health Expert Warns (Consequence of Sound 4/13/20)
- Allstate CEO: Driving is way down due to coronavirus and ‘we don’t know’ if trend will last (CNBC 4/7/20)
- How long until sports can return? You might not like the answer. (The Washington Post 4/4/20)
- Google and Facebook Can’t Save the Advertising Industry This Time (4/3/20)
- Radio listening booms while music streaming stalls (BBC News 3/25/20)
JacoBlog on COVID-19
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