Gene Chenault, rock radio innovator, dies
Gene Chenault, who with his business partner, Bill Drake, reshaped rock radio in the 1960s with packaged programming that delivered more music and fewer commercials to hundreds of stations, creating the automated format common today, died Feb. 23 in the Tarzana area of Los Angeles.
Gene Chenault, who with storied programmer Bill Drake headed Drake-Chenault Enterprises, died Tuesday at age 90, LARadio reports.