Radio Show Topics

Good radio shows require great radio show topics! Here is a list of creative ideas for topics that you can discuss on your radio show:

News Topics

• Real news, especially recent or breaking events
• Funny or ridiculous news items
• Recent articles from the newspaper, magazines, or online publications
• Sports news — esp. local high school / university / professional teams

Entertainment Topics

• Celebrity gossip
• Recent events in TV shows or movies (don’t spoil the ending! well, unless it’s a reality show.)
• New movies (again, no spoilers!)

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Advice

• Sex & relationships (keep it clean!)
• Health and fitness
• Saving money and investing
• Family and parenting
• Technology and internet
• Jobs and workplace issues
• Beauty tips

Funny radio show topics

• Ridiculous things that really happened to you or a friend
• Internet memes (the Macarena’s of today, the Harlem Shakes of tomorrow)
• Childhood mistakes
• Dating disasters
• Music parodies

Controversial issues

Be careful with these! Being aggressively political can turn people off, if your show is not explicitly political.

• The economy
• Crime
• Global warming
• Education
• Same-sex marriage
• Poverty & inequality
• Foreign policy
• War
• Religion

Local lifestyle

• Food & restaurants
• Events
• Entertainment

Audience involvement

• Trivia contests with listeners
• Would you rather…?
• Childhood/holiday memories
• Hate mail to your show 

Interviews

• Interviews with recent newsmakers
• Interviews with local politicians
• Interviews with local professionals (doctors, therapists, lawyers)
• Interviews with book authors (who are always hungry for publicity)