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...Diego's KGB rocketed from lowest-ranked in town to the top on Drake's 63rd day as consultant. Small wonder that stations pay up to $100,000 a year for his services...
Such power comes to Drake for the simple reason that in the past five years every one of the stations he has advised has waxed bigger in ratings and revenues. Los Angeles' KHJ, for example, rose from twelfth to No. 1 half a year after he moved in. Tulsa's KAKC doubled its rating within two months, and in the last year has doubled again...
...Internal Revenue Service probably does not know what to make of Bill Drake. How can he run a multimillion-dollar radio consulting service out of his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles? And that inflatable plastic armchair and the swimming pool in which it floats - are they taxable as luxuries or deductible as an executive suite...
Actually, the pool is just where Drake, who at 31 looks like a beach boy emeritus, gets his ideas. They are subsequently executed inside the $150,000 house. And executed is the word. He has a custom telephone hook up that enables him, by the dial of a code number, to monitor any of his ten client stations across the country...
Should he hear a disk jockey he doesn't dig, Drake gets on the blower (he has 21 phones around the house, including one in each of the five bathrooms...