Radio Content Calendar Generator: 30 Days in 60 Seconds

We just shipped a free Radio Content Calendar Generator. Tell it your format, market, and daypart — and in about a minute it builds a full month of content: a monthly theme, four weekly angles, and five daily segment ideas for every day on the calendar, with local hooks tied to your market. No account, no credit card. This post walks through how it works, who it's for, and what you actually get.

If you're the person on your team who builds the monthly content plan — the one looking at thirty empty days on the first of the month, coffee going cold, trying to remember what's happening in your market in three weeks — this one's for you.

Stations tell us the same thing constantly: the daily show comes easy, it's the planning that eats the week. Content is a beast with an insatiable appetite — you high-five yesterday's great segment and immediately have to feed tomorrow. Most teams either wing it (and repeat themselves), or block out a half-day with a whiteboard once a month (and burn time they don't have). We built the Content Calendar Generator to take the staring-at-a-blank-grid part off your plate.

What It Actually Builds

This isn't a list of generic "national days" anyone could Google. It's a planning document built around your station. You get:

• A monthly theme — one unifying idea for the month with a short strategic overview, so the thirty days hang together instead of feeling like thirty unrelated bits.
• Four weekly themes — a fresh angle for each week that builds momentum across the month rather than resetting every Monday.
• Five daily segment ideas per day — for each one: what to talk about, what the angle is, and how to execute it on the air. That's roughly 150 segment ideas in a 30-day calendar.
• Local hooks — content tied to your market, not topics that would work in any city. You tell it you're in Tulsa or Tucson or Tallahassee, and the ideas reflect that.
• A downloadable PDF — to print for the prep meeting, drop in a shared folder, or mark up during your show.

It's the difference between "here are some ideas" and "here's a plan." For the foundational version of why that distinction matters, see what show prep actually is — this tool is the monthly layer of that work.

How It Works — Three Steps, Under Three Minutes

Step 1 — Tell us about your station. Format (Hot AC, Country, CHR/Top 40, AC, Classic Hits, Rock, Urban AC, R&B/Hip-Hop, Spanish/Regional Mexican, News/Talk, Sports Talk, and more), market, station name, daypart, and show type — solo host, co-host pair, or full morning team. There's also an optional field where you can name topics your show owns or wants to avoid. Takes under two minutes.

Step 2 — Ava builds your calendar. I take your format, audience, and daypart and generate the weekly themes and daily segments tailored to your show. About 20–30 seconds.

Step 3 — View, download, and plan. Browse the calendar online, then download the PDF to share with your team or use during prep. Want a different month or a different station? Come back and generate a fresh one anytime.

That's it. Roughly the time it takes to make a cup of coffee — and you walk away with a month of content instead of a to-do.

What a Generated Week Looks Like

Concrete beats abstract, so here's the shape of one week from a calendar generated for a Hot AC morning show in a mid-size market — lightly trimmed:

Week 2 theme: "The Halfway Point." Listeners are mid-month — bills landed, motivation dipped, summer not here yet. Content leans into the relatable slog and the small wins.

• Monday — "The Sunday Scaries Debrief." Open phones on the thing everyone dreaded going back to. Angle: shared misery is funny. Execution: take three calls, you go last with the most absurd one.
• Tuesday — "Mid-Month Money Confession." Anonymous texts: the dumbest thing you bought this month. Angle: no judgment, all delight. Execution: read the best five, no names, react big.
• Wednesday — "Local Hump Day Hero." Shout out a listener-nominated coworker/neighbor doing something small and good in [your market]. Angle: radio is the town square. Execution: 90-second feature, tag the business or school.

You get five ideas a day like that, every day, with the angle and the execution spelled out — not just a topic word. The job left to you is picking which three you'll actually run and adding the local detail only you know.

Who It's For — Three Use Cases

The solo host doing everything

You're on-air, you're producing, you're cutting promos, and somewhere in there you're supposed to plan content. Stations running lean tell us planning is the first thing that slips — not because it doesn't matter, but because it's the task with no hard deadline until suddenly it's 5:40 AM and the log says "talk break" with nothing behind it. Generate a calendar at the top of the month, print the PDF, and you've got a default for every day. Riff off it, ignore it when something better walks in the door — but you're never starting from zero. (If you want that same default every single day, automatically, that's what Ava's Daily Prep does — the calendar is the free, do-it-yourself cousin.)

The small-market station with a small team

One programmer, a couple of part-time airshifts, no big-market prep budget. The Calendar Generator gives you a structured starting point you'd otherwise pay a consultant for — weekly themes that actually build, local hooks instead of wire copy, and a shareable PDF so everyone's working off the same plan. Pair it with a repeatable workflow like the holiday-week show prep system and you've covered both the steady months and the chaotic ones.

The station group standardizing across markets

If you're overseeing content for multiple stations, run the generator once per station. Each market gets its own format-and-market-specific calendar, but the structure is consistent — same monthly-theme-into-weekly-themes-into-daily-segments shape — so your APDs and hosts across markets are speaking the same planning language. It's a fast way to set a baseline that local talent then makes their own.

Where It Fits With the Rest of Your Prep

The Calendar Generator is the monthly tool. Here's how it stacks with the others:

• Monthly view — the Content Calendar Generator. The thirty-day map: themes and segment ideas.
• Show-by-show view — once you know the month's shape, our monthly content calendar posts go deeper on daily hooks for that specific month, and the free Character Profile tool makes everything Ava generates sound like you, not like generic AI.
• Every-day-handled view — for subscribers, Radio Content Pro delivers format-tuned prep, teases, and digital companion content daily, so the calendar stops being something you build and starts being something that shows up.

You don't need all of it. Start with the free calendar. If it saves you the half-day you were spending on the whiteboard, it did its job.

A Few Honest Notes

A couple of things I'd want to know before using it:

• It's a draft, not a script. The best version of this calendar is the one you mark up — crossing out ideas that don't fit your show, circling the three per week that do, adding the local thing the AI couldn't know about. Treat it like a strong first pass from a prep assistant, because that's what it is.
• The optional "own or avoid" field is worth filling in. If your show has a signature bit, a recurring feature, or a topic you've decided to stay away from, say so. The calendar gets noticeably more useful.
• It's genuinely free. No account, no card, no "free trial that bills you in seven days." Generate one for May, one for June, one for the station down the hall. We built it as a real tool, not a lead-capture trick — though yes, if it makes you curious about what daily, automated prep looks like, that door's open too.

Try It

Head to radiocontentpro.com/tools/content-calendar, answer a few questions about your station, and have a full month of content ideas before your coffee's done. Free, no account required.

And if you've been meaning to dial in how Ava generates content for your show, build your free Character Profile first — it takes about ten minutes and makes every calendar (and every other thing Ava touches) sound more like your station.

Free tools for radio: Content Calendar Generator · Character Profile · Show Prep ROI Calculator