His efforts earned him a Billboard award for " Album-Oriented Rock Personality of the Year For a Major Market " and the Drake-Chenault " Top Five Talent Search " title.

For his performance, Stern won a Billboard award for " Best Album-Oriented Rock Disc Jockey " and was featured in the Drake-Chenault " Top Five Talent Search " contest in the AOR category.

WRKO-FM's top 40 programming came to an end in November 1968, when it joined sister stations KHJ-FM in Los Angeles and KFRC-FM in San Francisco in airing an automated soft rock format from Drake-Chenault Enterprises, " Hit Parade ' 68 ", which incorporated both current music and oldies.

The title Hit Parade also became familiar during the late 1960s and early 1970s through a popular automated music format produced by the Drake-Chenault Co. and featured on hundreds of radio stations.

Bill Drake ( January 14, 1937 – November 29, 2008 ), born Philip Yarbrough, was an American radio programmer who co-developed the Boss Radio format with Gene Chenault via their company Drake-Chenault.

Drake-Chenault controlled everything from the specific DJs that were hired, to radio contests, visual logos, promotions and commercial policy.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Drake and Chenault formed Drake-Chenault Inc., marketing the format in the form of similar customized Johnny Mann jingle packages used on KHJ.

By 1974, KROY had adopted the Bill Drake format including jingles played on other Drake-Chenault stations.

In March 1973 950 AM became the first affiliate of Drake-Chenault ’ s automated “ Great American Country ” format, as both stations moved from their location in St. Louis Park to new facilities in Eden Prairie ( which today is still home to 950 AM ).

In late 1970, the station adopted the " Solid Gold Rock and Roll " automated format from Drake-Chenault, a forerunner of the adult contemporary format which played oldies from the 50's and early 60's with a sprinkling of current hits.

WROR switched to another Drake-Chenault format, " Solid Gold Rock and Roll ", on November 1, 1970, evenly splitting the oldies and current music ; in early 1973, the station went to a full-time oldies format, eventually parting ways with Drake-Chenault later that year and adopting the name " The Golden Great 98 " ( Drake-Chenault's services were later utilized by WCOP-FM, now sister station WZLX, which competed with WROR in the oldies format from 1973 – 74 ).

Drake-Chenault, owners of KXOA-FM ( 107. 9 ) attempted to sue the owners of KSFM, because they had recently used the “ Earth Rock ” name for their station.

The Radio Show, also a locally-owned company, used the call letters WBKZ ( FM ) for 95. 9 and presented various automated-and-semi-automated music formats, including at least two from the syndication company Drake-Chenault, co-founded by legendary programmer Bill Drake.

In the Spring of 1965, Drake-Chenault were hired to turn KHJ in Los Angeles, from a financial and ratings loser into a success.

These characterizations, plus the Jordans ' change from being singers / musicians to comic actors, pointed toward their future ; it was here where Marian developed and perfected the radio character " Teeny ".

Gordon was a veteran from the classic radio days in which he perfected the role of the exasperated character, as in Fibber McGee and Molly and Our Miss Brooks.

Very comfortable in performing their arrangements and songs they perfected on their radio show and performances before joining the Au Go Go Singers, and knowing that Jack Rollins and Charlie Joffe offered the tour based on the Singers ' performance, most of the Bay Singers were hesitant to add another member, but ultimately gave in to Stills.

CW still remained a viable form of radio communication for many years after voice transmission was perfected, because simple transmitters could be used.

On January 11, 1933, the Music Hall converted to the then familiar format of a feature film with a spectacular stage show perfected by Rothafel at the Roxy Theatre in New York City.

The San Cassiano Altarpiece was especially influential on Venetian painters, as it was one of the first of the large compositions in the sacra conversazione format which was perfected by Giovanni Bellini ( Antonello's surviving work in Vienna is only a fragment of the much larger original ).

Christus had already perfected this format in his two portraits of 1446.

He composed his songs on his favourite deity Krishna ( Gopala ) in Telugu. He perfected the padam format that is still being used today.

He perfected the padam format that is still used today.

When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.

Because of this, it would appear inevitable that an increasing percentage of strategic missiles will seek self-protection in mobility -- at least until missile defenses are perfected which have an exceedingly high kill probability.

From the wealth of material and the wide variety of different electronic techniques perfected in the past few years we have selected a few examples which appear to be headed for use in the immediate future and which offer completely new tools in medical research.

Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.

* They preferred quite short, metrically simple stanzas or ' strophes ' which they re-used in many poems-hence the ' Alcaic ' and ' Sapphic ' stanzas, named after the two poets who perfected them or possibly invented them.

However, Dürer's influence became less dominant after 1515, when Marcantonio perfected his new engraving style, which in turn traveled over the Alps to dominate Northern engraving also.

During the 20th century the Plateau tribes, such as the Nez Perce perfected contour-style beadwork, in which the lines of beads are stitch to emphasize the pictorial imagery.

Athena Tacha Spear's book, Brâncuși's Birds, ( CAA monographs XXI, NYU Press, New York, 1969 ), first sorted out the 36 versions and their development, from the early Măiastra, to the Golden Bird of the late teens, to the Bird in Space, which emerged in the early ' 20s and which Brâncuși perfected throughout his life.

In 1878, Ephraim Shay perfected his Shay locomotive, which was particularly effective in its ability to climb steep grades, maneuver sharp turns and manage imperfections in railroad tracks.

Therefore there are now a huge variety of different styles and types of map-for example, one area which has evolved a specific and recognisable variation are those used by public transport organisations to guide passengers, namely urban rail and metro maps, many of which are loosely based on 45 degree angles as originally perfected by Harry Beck and George Dow.

* " Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena ; they invented the telescope ... now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more deeply into the visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening now, which will have to be taken account of in the future, is not forgotten.

He was assistant librarian of Harvard University from 1856 to 1872, and planned and perfected an alphabetical card catalog, combining many of the advantages of the ordinary dictionary catalogs with the grouping of the minor topics under more general heads, which is characteristic of a systematic catalogue.

One of the first technological precursors of film is the pinhole camera, followed by the more advanced camera obscura, which was first described in detail by Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), and later perfected by Giambattista della Porta.

Eventually, the " rapid " firing mechanism was perfected and miniaturized to the extent that either the recoil of the firearm or the gas pressure from firing could be used to operate it, thus the operator needed only to pull a trigger ( which made the firing mechanisms truly " automatic ").

There he perfected the technique of working with paint with which he would become permanently identified.

Gutenberg, a goldsmith by profession, developed a complete printing system, which perfected the printing process through all of its stages by adapting existing technologies to the printing purposes, as well as making groundbreaking inventions of his own.

Petrarch polished and perfected the sonnet form inherited from Giacomo da Lentini and which Dante widely used in his Vita nuova to popularise the new courtly love of the Dolce Stil Novo.

The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.

George Cammann perfected the design of the instrument for commercial production in 1852, which has become the standard ever since.

New York Times writer Peter Watrous declared in a concert review: " He has perfected an odd vision of popular music, one in which eccentricity and imagination beat back all the pressures toward conformity ".

In 1851, Irish physician Arthur Leared invented a binaural stethoscope, and in 1852 George Cammann perfected the design of the instrument for commercial production, which has become the standard ever since.