Skyview COO Steve Jones said Bob KingsleyвЂ™s legacy lives on in this new venture hosted by Fitz. Bob KingsleyвЂ™s longtime production team, including Producer Ken Halford, Chief Engineer Roger Ramsey, GM & Affiliate Sales Lead Shawn Studer, AssociateВ Producer & Archivist Barbara Lyon, and Nashville-based interviewer and writer Deborah Evans- Price will continue curating the show.В Skyview Networks will lead the network sales effort and will be responsible for the showвЂ™s distribution.ДЇitz, who currently hosts The Fitz Show, The Hit List with Fitz, and Nashville Minute with Fitz, collectively heard on more than 140 stations, will begin to transition many of the 85 stations airing his weekend countdown show (The Hit List with Fitz) to the Country Top 40 franchise in January. Fitz will host his first show in January.

Since KingsleyвЂ™s passing, country music stars have been hosting the show. I am grateful to Nan Kingsley and hope to make her and Bob proud!вЂќ I am excited and honored to carry his torch and hope that I can do for the next generation of country music fans, what the legendary Bob Kingsley, did for me. вЂњHis loss is still sinking in, but I am honored to be taking the reins from the man who instilled in me a lifelong love of country music and the love of the вЂcountdown.вЂ™ This moment is surreal, and I do not take the responsibility lightly. He says he grew up listening to Bob Kingsley every weekend. Kingsley died in October after being diagnosed with cancer.ДЇitz becomes the third host in the 45-year history of country musicвЂ™s longest-running national radio show. The multi-year partnership between Hubbard Radio and Nan KingsleyвЂ™s KCCS Production will launch the new Bob KingsleyвЂ™s Country Top 40 with Fitz on more than 300 stations and will feature audio from the Kingsley Archives.

Hubbard Radio personality Fitz has been named permanent host of Bob KingsleyвЂ™s Country Top 40.

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