• Drake-Chenault Enterprises (originally American Independent Radio Inc.) was a radio syndication company that specialized in automation on FM radio stations...
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  • programmer who co-developed the Boss Radio format with Gene Chenault via their company Drake-Chenault. Phil Yarbrough began his broadcast career in 1953, working...
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  • and television writer Gene Chenault (1919–2010), co-founder of Drake-Chenault radio syndication company Kenneth Chenault (born 1951), chairman of American...
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  • 1950s to the present day. The "rockumentary," as producers Bill Drake and Gene Chenault called it, features hundreds of interviews and comments from numerous...
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    later, Fuqua filed to sell the station to a consortium consisting of Drake-Chenault, a national program syndicator, and Brown Broadcasting, which owned...
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  • eventually parting ways with Drake-Chenault later that year and adopting the name "The Golden Great 98" (Drake-Chenault's services were later utilized...
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  • Drake-Chenault/Jones Satellite Services, a 50/50 partnership between Drake-Chenault and Jones International. In 1991 Jones acquired Drake-Chenault's interest...
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    contest in the album-oriented rock category from radio syndication firm Drake-Chenault, which then distributed the winning radio segments to stations across...
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  • Christian Broadcasting Network) Dial Global (now named Westwood One) Drake-Chenault (now owned by Dial Global) Don Lee Network Enterprise Radio Network...
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    the 1978 52-hour marathon version of The History of Rock 'n' Roll for Drake-Chenault. The new richly-produced series combines songs, fun facts about the...
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  • aired Drake-Chenault's "Hit Parade" format, an automated mix of older songs and current hits. In 1971, the station carried another Drake-Chenault top 40...
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  • beginning in May 1978. Concurrently, Kingsley was providing voiceovers for Drake-Chenault Enterprises and its automated country music programming service. Under...
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  • are the libraries of Transtar, RKO, Waitt, Jones, BPI, Watermark, and Drake-Chenault. The company's numerous acquisitions prompted rival Talk Radio Network...
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  • is inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame just weeks earlier. Drake-Chenault syndicates The History of Country Music, a 52-hour country music version...
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    programming of its AM counterpart. In 1971, the station switched to the Drake-Chenault "Hit Parade" format. The station switched to its current Top 40 (CHR)...
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  • syndicated format, then changed to the Drake-Chenault Solid Gold format in 1974 and evolved Top 40 using Drake-Chenault's XT-40 format in late spring 1975....
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  • http://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2009/10/man-with-golden-gun-concept-art.html Drake-Chenault radio syndication company http://www.drakechenault.org/special.html...
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  • G Networks. Bill Drake himself narrated the 1978 52 hour version of the rockumentary. Among other things, Theroux had Drake-Chenault chief engineer Mark...
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  • "Hit Parade '70" in early 1970. Boss Radio was on the AM side and the Drake-Chenault provided programming kicked off the FM. KPHD changed their call letters...
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  • for "Best Album-Oriented Rock Disc Jockey" and was featured in the Drake-Chenault "Top Five Talent Search" contest in the AOR category. Published in January...
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  • Jim Mehrling, Rick Martyn and Bob Tayek. In 1981, WBEA picked up the Drake-Chenault "Beautiful Music Plus" format, then adopted a Top 40 format, branded...
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  • Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, became the first radio stations to pick up Drake-Chenault's Lite Country. The format, incorporating a few pop tunes to tap country...
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  • client of the Drake-Chenault consulting company and changed to the Boss Radio Top 40 music format. Nearly two months into retaining Drake-Chenault, KGB had...
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  • originally went on the air October 10, 1975, as WSME-FM, with an automated Drake-Chenault adult contemporary/oldies hybrid format. The call sign was changed to...
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  • after 1982, the station broadcast a country music format using the Drake-Chenault Great American Country programming service. As late as 1982, the transmitter...
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  • same progressive format would become a huge success. Initially, the Drake-Chenault-consulted, Top 40-formatted WOR-FM played new songs but in less of a...
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  • years in this format were Larry Thomas, Terry Setzer and Shane Atwell. Drake-Chenault introduced its "Super Soul" syndicated format in 1978, and WPEG was...
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  • Day Weekend in 2018, WXEX and WXEX-FM stunted with a broadcast of the Drake-Chenault documentary The History of Rock and Roll. On September 3, 2018, the...
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  • automated with no DJs. It featured hits of the 1950s and 1960s, similar to Drake-Chenault's "Solid Gold" format except without the softer current hits that the...
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    exposure—Australian commercial pop radio was overtaken by a local version of the Drake-Chenault "More Music" format—with a drastically restricted play list shutting...
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