Rich "Sully" Sullivan

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Rich "Sully" Sullivan

Born Sept. 9 1971
Boston, Mass Flag of the United States
Occupation Drive Time Radio Host
Website
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Rich Sullivan (b. 1971) or "Sully" is an Atlanta radio afternoon drive personality on WZGC-FM. He is the host of the popular Retro In the Metro show, which is focused on 80’s music airing every weekday afternoon at 5:00.

Rich Sullivan moved to Atlanta from his native Boston in February 1994. After taking courses at a broadcasting school, he got his start at WAEC-AM 860 in Atlanta.

In December of 1995, Rich began working at WGST 640, a news/talk station that at the time had local personalities Sean Hannity and Kim Peterson. His work at WGST included producing the Georgia High School Scoreboard Show which aired Friday nights during the high school football season and aired and several stations around the state of Georgia on the Georgia News Network. From 1998 until 2002 he was the executive producer for the Atlanta Falcons Radio Network. Sully has covered the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Thrashers, Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta Falcons as a radio reporter. His work on several other stations owned by Clearchannel in the Atlanta market including WKLS 96 Rock and WMAX, a now defunct talk/80's station. In the summer of 2004 at WMAX, Sully worked closely with Scott Ferrall as his producer. Sully also produced Randy Cross’s sports talk show in the evening In the fall of 2004 and winter of 2005.

In May of 2005, Sully was hired by WZGC-FM and began working part time on the weekends. He was hired fulltime for the overnight shift in November of 2005. In September of 2006, Sully became the afternoon drive host on WZGC-FM.

Sully’s passion for sports, particularly basketball, are always on display on the air. His love of the Boston Celtics and the Atlanta Hawks are evident by his constant references.

When on the job, you can find Sully at some of Atlanta’s largest promotions parties and charity events with Dave FM. Sully is known for his love of fine beer and a good time!

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[edit] Sully Quotes

Sully is known for having his own language on his show! Here are a couple...

  • “Shut up and play the music” – a statement he normally makes at the start of the Retro in the Metro 80’s hour at 5:00
  • “The ball carrier” or “Gameball to _____” – his way of showing affection to people who have done good things for the community, or maybe just for him.
  • “The Jager Files” – stories from the news of drunken stupidity that he reads on the air.
  • “The Kingdom of Gwinnett” – His description of Gwinnett County, GA.
  • “Gripping and riveting stuff” – his way to describe a story that is coming up that isn’t really anything special, but he’s hoping for some people to listen anyway.
  • “The lead off spot” – usually referring to the first song played in Retro in the Metro, playing on baseball’s “lead off batter”.
  • “Spicey Websites” – his way of talking about pornographic websites

[edit] Personal life

Sully is married and has no children. He can usually be found hanging out with his friends at establishments like the Loafing Leprechaun singing karaoke or Applebee’s watching sports. A Gwinnett Citizen article quoted him as saying “I love to sing karaoke!” Sully is an outspoken supporter of local business along with his friends Will Hillard-Aymerich, Roy Wooley and Tito Latino. Last spring when the City of Lilburn proposed banning entertainment in bars and eateries that serve alcohol. He frequently attendended city council meetings, and helped create a stir that pushed the City Council to review their referendum. Since then Sully has now been on a new attack to remove the ban on Sunday alcohol sales by the drink in his hometown of Snellville, Georgia. Since he was let go from his job on WGST in 2005 Sully has been moving foward with the mantra from Frank Sinatra "The best revenge is massive success." Another quote he lives by is one that he picked up from Scott Ferrall: “Show up, produce, no excuses”. Rich Sullivan lives in the City of Snellville, Georgia

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