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I'm not sure about the inclusion of the third 'Other use' of the title 'Boss Radio' added at the bottom of the page. I only know about these guys because they asked me to create some jingles for them, I don't know how genuine they were, I only know I didn't get paid. Should it be removed?

The other uses section is not referenced to or by anything. It is meaningless trivia and does not belong in this article. For instance: when did this other station operate and how wide was its audience and for how long? Are there any major documented references to it? Same goes for the mention of the band and as for the remour, it does not belong because it is only a rumour that is totally unsupported by fact.

Other uses[edit]

'Boss Radio' is also the name of a former British land-based pirate radio station, a British jazz/rock group, and the name of a group of people who it is rumoured intended to take over Radio City's transmitters on the day of the UK Marine Offences Act (Apparently their money ran out).

Boss Radio in California[edit]

The article implies that "Boss Radio" originated at KHJ. But according to http://www.ct30.com/kgb/history.html , Drake and Chenault had previously developed this format, even using the "Boss Radio" marketing theme, at the stations they programmed in San Diego, Fresno, and Stockton, before bringing it to KHJ. I don't know who's right, and certainly the format was brought to its final form at KHJ, but certainly they'd used the format and the name earlier. Jeh 19:46, 6 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jeh is correct. The format was developed and tested at KYNO 1300 AM in Fresno, California. I worked at this station for a number of years. Although Bill Drake and Gene Chenault had sold the station and left the premises by the time I arrived in the 1980's, the history of what took place there was well known and repeated among long-time employees. The BOSS Radio format began as notes scratched out on the back of a cocktail napkin from Cedar Lanes Bowling Alley around the corner from the original KYNO Radio location on Barton Avenue. More information here, BUT, this is based upon what I was told from multiple long-time employees who were working at this station when the format was developed: https://gulliblegardener.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-snail-mail-garden-news-release.html Billbird2111 (talk) 07:00, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So what is it?[edit]

The section on Boss Radio in the US has nothing regarding just exactly what the format was. It implies that it is a variation on the Top 40 format, but is it just a marketing term or was there some real difference between "Boss Radio" and "Top 40"? Wschart (talk) 13:11, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The term "Boss"[edit]

There is no explanation at the top about just what the term "boss" is, so I added it in, with a reference no less in an article that is tagged for lack thereof. This is probably one of the first things that someone unfamiliar with the now passe slang wants to know. It's central to the article also because it conveys the intention of the radio marketing effort, to reach youth via their language at the time. Without this explained, it's a mystery and the article is rendered far less informative. Tmangray (talk) 16:45, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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