Billy Zero

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Billy Zero (born William Gallagher) is a Radio and TV host.

Billy Zero was born in Ft. Meade, Maryland in 1971. He performed in many bands in the 90's including Bovox Clown, Love Muffin Prowler, Mentle Gen and Naked Lunch.

Billy Zero worked at the Legendary WHFS, 99.1 FM from December 1994 through February, 2000. Billy went to work for Advertising.com in February 2000. Four months later he left to start his own company - djboy.com and getbackstage.com. Billy was contacted by a headhunter in July 2000 and informed that XM Satellite Radio was hiring. Billy started out as Director of Ad Sales Development, then moved to Music Director of the Unsigned Channel. Billy was made the Program Director of Unsigned when Pat Dinizio of The Smithereens left to focus on his music career. Unsigned was cancelled from XM's Lineup in November 2005. Billy 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. Billy moved on to XMU as Program Director where he currently plays music every day on XM 43. In February, 2006 Billy started a new online Record Store called djboy.

Billy is currently President for the Washington D.C. Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (N.A.R.A.S). NARAS is the Organization that produces the Grammys every year.