History Radio / BobKingsleysCountryTop40

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Downplayed example; the 2015 year-end countdown was the first to include "extra" songs (older material from an artist and/or songwriter who had a spot in the countdown).

* CheapHeat: A few songs, including "Tim [=McGraw=]" by Music/TaylorSwift and "Little Bit of Life" by Craig Morgan, have gotten edits relating to Kingsley's show ("Someday you'll turn your radio on" in the former became "And turn the Bob Kingsley countdown on", while the latter changed "A little bit of radio going boom-boom-boom" to "A little bit of Kingsley").

After 27 years with ACC, Kingsley took the show's format over to Jones Radio (now Dial Global) to create ''Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40''. (''ACC'', meanwhile, continues to this day, hosted by Kix Brooks of the now-former duo Music/BrooksAndDunn.) ''Country Top 40'', or [=CT40=] as the show is sometimes referred to, presents the top 40 country hits for each week according to ''Mediabase'' (as opposed to the ''Billboard'' charts, which ACC would continue to use through 2009). Other features include listener requests (one per show; two until summer 2014), "[=CT40 Vault=]" (a previous #1 hit preceded by snippets of other previous #1 hits, the entireties of which can be listened to online; this feature replaced the second listener request in summer 2014), a handful of classics, stories behind the songs, and interviews with artists. Another feature is "[=CT40=] Flashback", done once a month, which presents several facts on a given year, followed by snippets of the top 5 country hits on the current month in that year. As was the case on ''ACC'', he blocks out the last countdown of the year to present the top 50 hits of the year, calculated with his own methodology.

In October 2019, Kingsley announced he had been diagnosed with bladder cancer and would be departing the show, the intention that it would be a temporary departure. Prior to his departure, he struck an agreement with the Country Music Association to provide guest hosts for the program, all of them female country music stars, through the program airing the weekend of November 30, 2019. Sadly, Kingsley died of cancer just more than a week after the announcement. Following the rotating female guest host series, country music superstar Music/GarthBrooks hosted the final four programs of 2019, including the year-end show on December 28, which Brooks co-hosted with his wife, Music/TrishaYearwood; additionally, Kingsley’s “Christmas In America” was set to be a “best of” program, collating highlights from the past 25 years. In January 2020, disc jockey Fitz was announced as the new host, continuing in the Kingsley tradition.

In October 2019, Kingsley announced he had been diagnosed with bladder cancer and would be departing the show, the intention that it would be a temporary departure. Prior to his departure, he struck an agreement with the Country Music Association to provide guest hosts for the program, all of them female country music stars, through the program airing the weekend of November 30, 2019. Sadly, Kingsley died of cancer just more than a week after the announcement. Following the rotating female guest host series, country music superstar Music/GarthBrooks was set to host the final four programs of 2019, including the year-end show on December 28, which Brooks co-hosted with his wife, Music/TrishaYearwood. Additionally, Kingsley’s “Christmas In America” was set to be a “best of” program, collating highlights from the past 25 years.

** The 2019 episode, to air two months after Kingsley’s death, will be a ClipShow, with segments from the past 25 years of shows — presumably, favorite interviews and songs from both Kingsley and listeners — set to to be included.

In October 2019, Kingsley announced he had been diagnosed with bladder cancer and would be departing the show, the intention that it would be a temporary departure. Prior to his departure, he struck an agreement with the Country Music Association to provide guest hosts for the program, all of them female country music stars, through the program airing the weekend of November 30, 2019. Sadly, Kingsley died of cancer, just more than a week after the announcement. Following the rotating female guest host series, country music superstar Music/GarthBrooks was set to host the final four programs of 2019, including the year-end show on December 28, which Brooks co-hosted with his wife, Trisha Yearwood. Additionally, Kingsley’s “Christmas In America” was set to be a “best of” program, collating highlights from the past 25 years.

In October 2019, Kingsley announced he had been diagnosed with bladder cancer and would be departing the show, the intention that it would be a temporary departure. Prior to his departure, he struck an agreement with the Country Music Association to provide guest hosts for the program, all of them female country music stars, through the program airing the weekend of November 30, 2019. Sadly, Kingsley died of cancer, just more than a week after the announcement. Following the rotating female guest host series, country music superstar Music/GarthBrooks was set to host the final four programs of 2019, including (presumably) the year-end show on December 28; additionally, Kingsley’s “Christmas In America” was set to be a “best of” program, collating highlights from the past 25 years. Thereafter, show's future has not been announced.

* CoolOldGuy: Kingsley had this air about him until his death: a man in his 70s

In October 2019, Kingsley announced he had been diagnosed with bladder cancer and would be departing the show, the intention that it would be a temporary departure. Prior to his departure, he struck an agreement with the Country Music Association to provide guest hosts for the program, all of them female country music stars, through the program airing the weekend of November 30, 2019. Sadly, Kingsley died of cancer, just more than a week after the announcement. As of this point, the show's future (after the November 30 program) has not been announced.

Kingsley announced that he would be stepping down from the show in October 2019. Only eight days later, he died at age 80 of bladder cancer.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: A strange zig-zagging. Bob seemed just fine playing Music/ZacBrownBand's "Toes" uncensored ("''I've got my toes in the water/ass in the sand''") when it was scaling the charts, but every occurrence of the song after the fact has been censored ("''I've got my toes in the water/toes in the sand''").

** Zig-zagged with "Ring on Every Finger" by [=LoCash=], which contains the StealthPun "Dropping little F-bombs like 'forever'" in the bridge. Instead of playing the radio edit, which changes the line to "love bombs", Bob either plays it uncensored, or cuts out the bridge entirely.

* CoolOldGuy: Kingsley is in his 70s and still announcing the latest hits in country.

** For some strange reason, certain songs seem to ''always'' be played in abridged form, most notably "Gettin' You Home (The Black Dress Song)" which is always missing its second verse, even in retrospectives -- it just ends up with the first verse, then the chorus three times.
** In a particularly egregious example, "Back That Thing Up" by Justin Moore was missing its second verse for almost all of its chart run, even though the song is a measly 2:36 uncut.

** He also censored "[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot marga-daiquiri-screw-olada on the beach]]" (from Jerrod Niemann's "One More Drinkin' Song") to "…chill-olada" depsite the "screw" referring to a screwdriver drink. Oddly, he's done nothing about "screw the ticket" in Casey James' "Crying on a Suitcase" or "Screw you" in Music/BlakeShelton's "Neon Light". (And speaking of Blake, he never censored "She put a big F.U. in my future" from "She's Got a Way with Words".)

** In one bizarre zig-zagging, he once used an abridged version of the album version of Montgomery Gentry's "Gone". The radio edit has the backing vocals mixed louder in parts, plus a few more truncations here and there (such as the Hammond organ solo, which is cut in half). The version he played on one show had the softer backing vocals and longer organ solo of the album version, but was hacked up in different spots than the radio edit.

** He also censored "[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot marga-daiquiri-screw-olada on the beach]]" (from Jerrod Niemann's "One More Drinkin' Song") to "…chill-olada" depsite the "screw" referring to a screwdriver drink. Oddly, he's done nothing about "screw the ticket" in Casey James' "Crying on a Suitcase" or "Screw you" in Music/BlakeShelton's "Neon Light".

** In one bizarre zig-zagging, he once used an abridged version of the album version of Montgomery Gentry's "Gone". The radio edit has the backing vocals mixed louder in parts, plus a few more truncations here and there (most notably, the Hammond organ solo before the last chorus is truncated). The version he played on one show had the softer backing vocals and longer organ solo of the album version, but was hacked up in different spots than the radio edit.