Editing Bob FM (section)

== Origins ==
It was originally named for the "'''B'''est '''o'''f the '''B'''est", and subsequently associated with an everyday character named "Bob." It proved very successful in its first implementation on [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]]'s [[CFWM]]. It inspired [[Rogers Communications]] to license the JACK FM format at many of its stations, [[Corus Entertainment]]'s subsequent [[CKNG-FM|Joe FM]] and [[CJDV-FM|Dave FM]] brands, and comparable moves at other stations. Currently a syndicated version of the format is offered by Envision Radio Networks. As with Jack FM, Bob FM stations have [[playlist]]s of over 1000 songs as opposed to most other commercial stations which play about 500 songs or less.

The format was largely conceived and created by Howard Kroeger, a former programming executive at CHUM Group Radio, after attending a friend's 40th birthday party in 2000. He took the "Bob" moniker from a [[country music]] station (then WBOB, today [[KFXN-FM]]) that had broadcast in the [[Minneapolis-St. Paul]] market of [[Minnesota]] to the south several years earlier.