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Bob Kingsley is an American country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 radio personality and host of the nationally syndicated programs "Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40
Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40

Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40 is an American country music radio countdown show hosted by former American Country Countdown host Bob Kingsley. The show is produced by Kingsley's KCCS Productions and distributed by Dial Global....
" and "Bob Kingsley with Today's Hit Makers."

For 27 years, Kingsley was the voice behind the nationally syndicated countdown program, "American Country Countdown
American Country Countdown

American Country Countdown, also known as ACC or American Country Countdown with Kix Brooks,is an internationally syndicated radio program which counts down the top 40 country songs of the previous week, from No....
" and the two-minute daily "Bob Kingsley with America's MusicMakers." He stepped down from both programs in December 2005, after renegotiations with ABC Radio Networks (which distributed the two programs) failed.

sley, while serving with the Air Force in 1959, began his radio career at TFK, the Armed Forces Radio Service station in Keflavic, Iceland.






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Bob Kingsley is an American country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 radio personality and host of the nationally syndicated programs "Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40
Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40

Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40 is an American country music radio countdown show hosted by former American Country Countdown host Bob Kingsley. The show is produced by Kingsley's KCCS Productions and distributed by Dial Global....
" and "Bob Kingsley with Today's Hit Makers."

For 27 years, Kingsley was the voice behind the nationally syndicated countdown program, "American Country Countdown
American Country Countdown

American Country Countdown, also known as ACC or American Country Countdown with Kix Brooks,is an internationally syndicated radio program which counts down the top 40 country songs of the previous week, from No....
" and the two-minute daily "Bob Kingsley with America's MusicMakers." He stepped down from both programs in December 2005, after renegotiations with ABC Radio Networks (which distributed the two programs) failed.

Career

Kingsley, while serving with the Air Force in 1959, began his radio career at TFK, the Armed Forces Radio Service station in Keflavic, Iceland. He jocked at Los Angeles
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 country station KGBS, 1961-69, then in 1970 became program director at KLAC, which had just dropped MOR for a country format.

Kingsley rose to national prominence in 1974 when he became the producer of the nationally syndicated "American Country Countdown" program started a year earlier by Casey Kasem
Casey Kasem

Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem, is an United States radio personality and voice actor. Mr. Kasem is a graduate of Northwestern High School in Michigan and the Wayne State University....
 and Don Bustany. Kingsley succeeded the program's original host, Don Bowman, beginning with the May 6-7, 1978 show.

Under Kingsley's watch, "ACC" became a top-rated syndicated radio program, winning numerous awards. That list includes Billboard magazine's "Network/Syndicated Program of the Year: Country" for 16 years in a row, the only air personality and music program in any format to achieve this continued success. Kingsley won Country Music Association
Country Music Association

The Country Music Association was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre....
 National Broadcast Personality of the Year honors in 2001 and 2003.

In 2006 Kingsley signed a new distribution deal with Jones Radio Network (and was later accurired by Dial Global). The new countdown program is called Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40. His two minute program is called Bob Kingsley with Today's Hit Makers.

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