obscurity to the number one radio station in Los Angeles. Drake also programmed KFRC in San Francisco, WOR-FM in New York, KAKC in Tulsa, WHBQ in Memphis, WUBE (AM) in Cincinnati, WRKO in Boston and 50,000 watt CKLW, in Windsor, Ontario. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Drake and Chenault formed Drake-Chenault Inc., marketing the format via similar customized Johnny Mann jingle packages used on KHJ. These jingle packages were sold across the US and overseas. They also marketed "automated" radio format packages such as "Hit Parade", "Solid Gold", "Classic Gold" and "Great American Country". Disc Jockey voices heard on those formats included Robert W. Morgan, Charlie Van Dyke and others. Additionally, they marketed documentaries like The History of Rock and Roll, a 10-episode, 52-hours-log series on which Drake worked as a writer and narrator. After Drake-Chenault Drake-Chenault was sold and eventually dissolved in the mid-1980s. In 1973, Drake left KHJ, along with Steele and Morgan, to program KIQQ-FM ("K-100") in Los Angeles. Bill Drake was a member of the nominating committee of the Hit Parade Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame in 2007. He died of lung cancer in Los Angeles on November 29, 2008. Gene Chenault died at 90 on February 23, 2010. References American radio personalities Deaths from lung cancer in California People from Los Angeles 1937 births 2008 deaths Radio personalities from Atlanta Place of birth missing