Billy Zero

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William Gallagher, better known by his on-air name Billy Zero, is an American radio personality. Born in Ft. Meade, Maryland in 1971, he is best known for his work at Baltimore and Washington radio stations. He performed in many bands in the 90's including Bovox Clown, Love Muffin Prowler, Mentle Gen and Naked Lunch.

In February 2006, Gallagher started a new online record store called Dj Boy Records online at djboy.com.

Gallagher worked at the Legendary WHFS, 99.1 FM from December 1994 through February, 2000.[1] Zero went to work for Advertising.com in February 2000. Four months later he left to start his own company - djboy.com and getbackstage.com.[2] Gallagher was contacted by a headhunter in July 2000 and informed that XM Satellite Radio was hiring. He started out as director of ad sales development, then moved to Music Director of the Unsigned Channel. Gallagher was made the program director of Unsigned when Pat Dinizio of The Smithereens left to focus on his music career.[3] Unsigned was canceled from XM's Lineup in November 2005. Gallagher then went to work on Fred, XM 44 for 3 months to help out, then went to Big Tracks, a channel that XM launched, and helped build the channel from scratch. Zero moved on to XMU as Program Director where he programmed and played as a DJ indie music on XM 43 until November 2008.

After he was laid off from XM in 2008, he served as program director at WTMD on the campus of Towson University.[4] He left the station the following year.[5]

On January 1, 2010, he started an artist management company called Zero Managemengt. By May 2010, he had 8 artists and 2 agents. His artists included Grammy nominated artist, Wayna, Emmy nominated Ellen Cherry, The Hint, Alfonso Velez, Derek Olds, , The Eureka Birds, Will Rast and The Funk Ark.[citation needed]

In January 2012, the Zero Management lineup shifted to focus on career artists. The lineup of managed artists include: Grammy-Nominated Christylez Bacon, Eureka Birds, Derek Olds, Monika Gaba, Rites of Ash, Tobias Russell, The Perfects, Vital and Janine Wilson. Zero is currently consulting with a number of artists and organizations and can be seen moderating panels in 2012 at MacWorld's iWorld and SXSW.[citation needed]

Gallagher shifted away from management in 2013 and focused on DJ Boy Radio and a number of new creative endeavors. DJ Boy Radio, an audio advertising agency, launched in 2015. The company's website has since gone offline and a Facebook page has not been updated since 2018.[6]

He was president of the Washington D.C. chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences from 2008 to 2010 and trustee from June 2010 through May 2012.

Gallagher launched DJ Boy Radio, an audio advertising agency, in 2015. The company's website has since gone offline and a Facebook page has not been updated since 2018.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ Technology Repaves Road to Stardom[dead link], The Washington Post, May 2, 2004 ("He left Washington's WHFS (99.1 FM) for XM in February 2000, after growing frustrated that the Infinity Radio station would not play enough unsigned bands to suit his tastes.")
  2. ^ Would You Buy the Future of Radio From This Man?, Wired (magazine), October 2004 ("Billy Zero, DJ for XM's Unsigned (bands without a major contract), had left WHFS, the once-revered alternative rock station in the DC area, to start a dotcom")
  3. ^ From local to legend[dead link], The Capital, December 9, 2005 ("Billy Zero grew up around Annapolis worked at WHFS for six years and now runs the Unsigned Bands Channel at XM Satellite Radio ..")
  4. ^ (PDF) https://www.towson.edu/magazine/documents/magazine-summer-2009.pdf. Retrieved 6 May 2021. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ "Mullins Joins WTMD As PD". All Access. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  6. ^ "Log into Facebook". Facebook. Retrieved 3 July 2021. Cite uses generic title (help)
  7. ^ "Log into Facebook". Facebook. Retrieved 3 July 2021. Cite uses generic title (help)
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