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Tom Sullivan (radio and television personality)

American television and radio personality

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ7817727 ↗
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Tom Sullivan is an Atlanta, Georgia radio and television personality.

Biography

Sullivan has been in radio since his senior year in high school, and with WSTR Star94 since graduation.

In October 2007 he became the co-host along with Holly Firfer of Atlanta and Company on 11 Alive NBC and broadcast on cable to Jamaica, Costa Rica and North Carolina.

An Atlanta native, Sullivan gave Ryan Seacrest his first gig in radio. Seacrest interned with Sullivan for a year, learning all aspects of radio broadcasting.

In his tenure as the "out there" guy on Star 94's Steve & Vikki Morning Show, Sullivan has performed over 500 individual stunts including wrapping himself in bubble wrap and being rolled down the stairs at Underground Atlanta; showering in a stranger's house; eating off a stranger's plate at a Waffle House; and camping on the roof of Lenox Square Mall under The Great Tree during the 2000 presidential election vote-counting controversy. This stunt was covered nationally by CNN.

Television appearances

Sullivan was co-star on the GPB television show Chick In A Chair. He was selected as a semi finalist for the Oprah Winfrey reality show The Big Give on ABC television. He appeared on the season finale of American Gladiators on NBC and "Live" with Kelly Ripa. Sullivan was invited by Harpo studios to attend the farewell Oprah Winfrey show.

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Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Sullivan, radio and television can be independently traced.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7817727. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2007 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tom Sullivan (radio and television personality)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.