PAT PICKETT SNYDER 22 APR
SPRING 2018
As a student at Butler University, DuJuan McCoy set his sights on success. The Ben Davis High School graduate and recipient of a Christamore Housescholarship was dedicated in both the classroom as a Business/Marketing major and on the athletic field as a record-holding bulldog sprinter.
The prowess and inner drive that helped him navigate his undergraduate years has propelled him into significant roles of management and ultimately ownership in the broadcast industry. He currently owns five television
stations as President and CEO of Bayou City Broadcasting, including CBS and Fox affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and three stations (Fox, NBC, and MyNetworkTV) in Lafayette, Louisiana.
According to McCoy, his desire to rise through the ranks was established early in his career while in his first job at WTHR-4, Indianapolis.
“In 1991, the station was sold to River City Broadcasting. One of the partners was a guy named Barry Baker, a 28-year-old entrepreneur,” McCoy recalls. “He stands up in front of the whole sales team and says, ‘I’m looking for athletes who want to make a lot of jack.’ From that day forward, I wanted to be like that guy. I trained my brain to learn as much as I could about my craft.”
https://stories.butler.edu/story/thinking-big-achieving-more/