Category Archives: Interactive

Combat Hunger

Combat Hunger is the Midwest’s largest two-day food drive, held each year on the weekend prior to Thanksgiving. STAR broadcasts live from 5a – 6p on Thursday and Friday at 12th and Locust, downtown Des Moines, collecting cash and non-perishable food items for The Food Bank of Iowa.  Partners with Combat Hunger include the Iowa [...]

Des Moines Arts Festival

Arts Festival is a two-day expo featuring some of the best artists in the entire country. All stations are media partners with the Downtown Events Group, who puts on the Arts Festival. Each year we do something different and have done a group activity, such as Fish Printing or Sand Art, or we’ve done our [...]

Pumpkin Run

This is a 5k cross-country run through TimberPine Nursery in Earlham.  It happens in September.  A portion of the run goes to Big Ken & Colleen’s Kids, benefiting the Children’s Miracle Network and the University of Iowa’s Children’s Hospital.  Last year there were over 300 runners!  There are a few opportunities for clients including booths [...]

iPod Profile

The iPod Profile is a feature on Star 102.5 every Tuesday and Thursday morning where a listener submits five songs off their iPod and Ken and Colleen have to guess the gender, age, occupation, marital status and hobby of the mystery listener solely based on their iPod music.  As the sponsor you receive mentions and [...]

Christmas Wish

Star 102.5′s Christmas Wish makes the Holidays a little brighter for people in Central Iowa by granting their Christmas Wish.  Each year we ask listeners to share their story of someone special who deserves to be honored in a very unique and personal way.  Thousands of listeners respond from around the state, sending touching wishes [...]

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