Minivan Rock Parent Jon Zellner on Programming Top 40, Hot AC Stations in the Late '90s

billboard.com:

Between 1996 and 2004, my family and I lived in Kansas City. Music was always a part of my upbringing -- as my dad, Jon Zellner, worked for CBS Radio, where he programmed a variety of radio stations.

Those included KMXV Mix 93.3, the Top 40 station, and Star 102 (now called KC102.1), the Hot AC station.At his Kansas City stations, my dad programmed many of the artists on Billboard’s list of the 50 Greatest Minivan Rock Songs list, which we published earlier today -- from Lifehouse to Matchbox Twenty and more.

Decades later, he's still programming stations, but as the President of Programming Operations for iHeartMedia.In honor of Billboard’s Minivan Rock list, he has agreed to serve as Billboard’s de-facto Minivan Rock.