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Show prep for Hip Hop & Urban stations

Hip Hop & Urban radio show prep

Culture-first stories, picked for your audience and written the way you talk.

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For You showing your show, ready by 6:00 am with 6 stories, and Swap on the first story

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Hip Hop & Urban

What Hip Hop & Urban morning shows need

  • Culture first

    Music, drops, beefs and the moments the culture is talking about today.

  • Community and real talk

    The issues, wins and people that matter in your community.

  • Your voice, not a template

    Urban personalities are the brand. Prep has to sound like you.

How it works

How Radio Content Pro preps a Hip Hop & Urban show

  1. Set your format

    Choose Hip Hop & Urban on your profile and tell Ava who listens and where.

  2. Ava picks

    Every morning, For You fills with the stories that fit your show, each with a tease.

  3. In your voice

    «In my voice» writes each story the way you talk, checked against the story.

  4. Ready by your time

    Set a ready-by time and how many stories. Your show is built in running order.

Inside the app

Built for hip hop listeners

Stories picked for hip hop listeners

Set your format to Hip Hop & Urban and For You picks for your show, not a generic feed. Not right? Press «Not for me» and pick «Not my format»; Ava learns.
  • Music news from other genres is filtered out of For You. Browse still has every story.
  • Politics, crime and other hard news are played down, unless your interests ask for news.
  • Set your market and local stories come from there.
A story page with The Story, Why it matters and Key facts

Your voice, not a template

Your Character Profile captures how you really talk on air. Ava writes in it.
  • Written like a hip hop host: «In my voice» uses your Character Profile.
  • «Key facts» and «Article source» keep the original story a tap away.
A story written in your voice, with «Verified against the story — ready for air.»

Ready before you are

Set a ready-by time and how many stories. Ava builds your show in running order, and can email it to you.
  • Reorder stories and add your own notes in Show Builder.
  • Copy, print or email your show.
The Show schedule card: ready by 6:00 am, days on air, 6 stories, Email it to me ticked

The format

What is the Hip Hop & Urban radio format?

Urban radio, also called Mainstream Urban or Urban Contemporary, plays current hip hop and R&B. It is a culture-leading format: its morning shows set the conversation on music, celebrity, sports and the community, in a voice that is unmistakably their own.

  • Urban
  • Mainstream Urban
  • Urban Contemporary
  • Hip hop and R&B

Included

Everything else comes with it

Ask Ava

Ask Ava about Radio Content Pro for Hip Hop & Urban

In the app, Ava takes any question about a story: an angle, a tease, a phone topic or a rewrite. Here, ask her how it would work on your show.
Ava Hart smiling, ready to help with your show

Ask Ava. Thinking about Radio Content Pro for your hip hop show? Ask me.

Try it on tomorrow’s hip hop show.

Start free. Set your format. See what Ava picks.

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Questions

Hip Hop & Urban show prep questions

Can I keep it clean for daytime?

Yes. Add it to «Your notes to Ava», and skip topics with «Stories to skip».

Will I get country or rock music news?

No. With hip hop as your format, music news from other genres is filtered out of For You.

Does Hip Hop & Urban cost extra?

No. Radio Content Pro is $199 a month or $1,999 a year, for any format.

Can I try it first?

Yes. Start a 7-day free trial and get full access, no card needed. Pick a plan when you are ready to keep going.

I’m already a member. Does my price change?

No. Existing members keep their current rate.

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