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Gene Chenault: Helped kill creativity in radio, dead at 90

March 5, 2010

New York Times is reporting:

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.

The cause was non-Hodgkin lymphoma, his wife, Susan, said.

Read the entire NYT obituary.



One Response to “Gene Chenault: Helped kill creativity in radio, dead at 90”

  1. A Fan A Fan says:

    To many jealous people in this world!!!
    Get a clue. No Respect


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