The soap opera stuff during the day I wasn't a big fan of, but in the evening when The Green Hornet and The Fat Man and all those great old radio shows were on...
After a DJ friend told him he needed a better demo tape and gave him access to a studio to record one, Kingsley found a sales job at a radio station in Palmdale, California.
[8] Concurrently, Kingsley was providing voiceovers for Drake-Chenault Enterprises and its automated country music programming service.
In 2015, Nash Icon (the media brand and network of country music stations owned by Cumulus Media) announced it would begin distributing classic ACC programs for syndication under the name American Country Countdown Rewind With Bob Kingsley, starting that May.
Through an arrangement with Nan Kingsley and the Country Music Hall of Fame, CT40 replays currently air Saturdays on Nashville's WSM Radio.
[5] In October 2019, Kingsley was diagnosed with bladder cancer, forcing him to cede CT40 hosting duties for what was intended to be a temporary leave of absence.
[12] Kingsley won Country Music Association National Broadcast Personality of the Year honors in 2001 and 2003.
[3] Blair Garner, Ralph Emery and Gene Autry were the only country radio personalities inducted before him.