When Top 40 radio became Top 30--Bill Drake

'Boss Radio' chief Bill Drake was working on a Top 40 format for satellite radio at the time of his death. No matter.

• The investment banker/politicos who caused the long delay of an XM Sirius merger ensured its demise. All the talk now is just conversation. That's where the action was.

###Even Imus was influenced by Bill Drake (NY Daily News):

• "As for Imus, listeners to his talk show today might not immediately hear the precise-and-concise Drake approach. But airchecks of his early top-40 days put him right in the pocket with the KHJ radio guys he admired, like The Real Don Steele and Robert W. Morgan, who would say their piece and get out.

Even today, if you listen,

• Imus is still working all the time to be concise.

"Drake wasn't against talking," said McCoy. "But what you did say had better be interesting."

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