Big Boy

CTL-E-5758 · Person · other · 1969–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07023 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5758.

Big Boy, born Kurt Alexander on 8 September 1969 in Chicago, Illinois, is an American radio host — not Antwan "Big Boi" Patton of Outkast, a different person with a near-identical billing, from whom this record is expressly distinguished. He moved to California at age two and, after work as a bodyguard for The Pharcyde, began in radio in 1994 at KPWR (Power 106), Los Angeles. He launched the morning show Big Boy's Neighborhood on Power 106 in 1997; syndicated nationally from 2007, it was heard in 35 major markets at its peak. He moved the show to KRRL (Real 92.3) in February 2015 and was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame the same year; he received the 2,701st star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2021 and, per spring 2026 Nielsen reporting, currently hosts on Real 92.3.

The record

• Also known as: Kurt Alexander, Big Boy (radio host)

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 7; first packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Big Boy entity in the live graph at 3,443 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5758 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 327 (DJs list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American broadcast figure — born in Chicago. Vital status: LIVING — listed as currently hosting on Real 92.3 Los Angeles in spring 2026 Nielsen reporting. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Big Boy's Neighborhood was syndicated in 35 major markets at its peak (Radio Hall of Fame); he holds three Marconi Awards and four Radio Music Awards Personality of the Year honors (Walk of Fame) — accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and label/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5758-big-boy.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject; the three catalog string-hits for "Ne-Yo" resolve to Nina Simone and John Coltrane rows, not Ne-Yo billings); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )

Sources

• Radio Hall of Fame — Kurt "Big Boy" Alexander: Chicago birth; Power 106 chronology; 2015 induction; 35-market syndication peak — https://www.radiohalloffame.com/kurt-big-boy-alexander (primary source · build store)
• Hollywood Walk of Fame — star record; awards incl. three Marconi Awards and four Radio Music Awards Personality of the Year honors; Real 92.3 role — https://walkoffame.com/big-boy/ (build store)
• Inside Radio (spring 2026) — Nielsen report listing him currently hosting on Real 92.3 Los Angeles; vital-status evidence — https://www.insideradio.com/free/iheartmedia-s-wwpr-fm-powers-urban-contemporary-s-top-10/article_7f5ec321-c23b-4940-bdb6-fc86a5cd442c.html (build store)

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