Scott Lindy, the program director who helped give country station 94.9/The Bull a major kick in the ratings, has left the building despite the fact the station just had its best month ever.
“I am not at liberty to discuss it completely because of the situation with the departure,” Lindy said ever so vaguely today. His former boss Clay Hunnicutt also hasn’t returned calls or text messages.
When Lindy arrived early last year, the Bull for two years had stumbled around trying to gain traction against mainstay Kicks 101.5. Lindy helped rejigger the music and the sound, hired Jason Pullman as part of the morning show and lifted the station’s ratings. (Interestingly, Kicks has not been hurt much by the Bull’s pick up. It’s actually held steady and had its best ratings last month in years, ranking second overall in the city behind only V-103.)
Lindy’s well respected in the country music business. He was also operations manager for the entire Clear Channel cluster, including 105.7/The Groove and 640/WGST-AM. He has also worked at Sirius XM.
The Bull ranked 12th overall last month, 12th among 25- to 54-year-olds and 10th among 18- to 34-year-olds, according to Arbitron measurements.
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5 comments Add your comment
Jim
August 23rd, 2010
12:59 pm
Hopefully Hunnicutt will hire someone who will continue to push the Bull into a upward direction as Lindy did. if not, The Bull may as well kiss it goodbye, and that would be a shame.
My guess is that it got political. maybe Lindy asked for more support from corporate and got shot down, who knows. Too bad, hiring Lindy was one of the very few smart things C.C has done in awhile.
Motocross Survivor
August 23rd, 2010
2:16 pm
I’m crushed. Let’s make it DEVASTATED!!
Idiot Wins
August 23rd, 2010
3:12 pm
they are a lot better than the Bert NOSE show…Fat Wendy..
Beau Bock
August 24th, 2010
12:57 am
I’m available and could give the station more of a New York feeling.
Peachtree Pete
August 25th, 2010
11:48 am
“The Bull.” They got that right.