Radio legend Gene Chenault passes….

Gene Chenault, who with his business partner, Bill Drake, reshaped rock radio in the 1960s with prepackaged programming that delivered more music and fewer commercials to hundreds of stations, creating the automated format common today, died on Feb. 23 in Tarzana, Calif. He was 90 and lived in Encino, Calif.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/arts/music/04chenault.html?ref=obituaries

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