Radio personalties walk out

You’ve been listening to Pollard and KC in the mornings on WTVY-FM 95.5.

Well, a lot of you have, but not anymore.

Amie Pollard and Ken Carlile, whose morning radio show helped WTVY become the most-listened-to station in the Dothan market, abruptly quit the station Monday along with on-air personalities Big Mike Casey (Mike Missildine) and Miss Elizabeth (Elizabeth Parrish), as well as the promotions director and two salespersons.

Officials with Magic Broadcasting, the Panama City, Fla.-based company that owns WTVY as well as four other Wiregrass stations, declined to comment.

The on-air quartet has referred all comment to their attorney, Sam Cherry.

“I have asked that each of them not make any public comments as to the reason for their departure from WTVY,” Cherry said Tuesday. “It is my belief after extensive interviews that circumstances were presented that prevented them from performing their jobs as contemplated at the time they first started with the station.

“There is no ill will and we are hopeful that this matter can be cleared up quickly,” Cherry added.

Cherry declined to comment on the reason for their departure, or if the group planned to seek other employment in the near future.

Pollard and Carlile have been together as the WTVY morning duo for five years. Pollard worked three years at the station prior to Carlile’s arrival. Missildine and Parrish had been at the station for several years as well.

WTVY was the top-rated station in the Dothan market among all listeners aged 12 and above, according to the latest Arbitron ratings taken in the fall of 2007. The country music station earned a 10.4 rating, meaning 10.4 percent of the radio stations in the area turned on at any given time were tuned to the station. WOOF-FM (adult contemporary) was second with a 9.7. Ratings for the spring of 2008 are due out next month.