Longest Serving Radio Disk Jockey

Another Good example of a having a long haul in the Radio broadcasting career.Yes and it is none other than Herb Kent or nicknamed coolly as "Cool gent"  is a living example to many African-American Broadcasters.

Kent boasts of a career spanning 65  long years  serving as a Radio Disk Jockey.Kent kickstarted his career in the year 1944 when he was just 16 years.He always exudes a youthful charm and vibrance as he shares stories of artists featured on the radio station.

Kent's strong desire to learn as much as he could about the radio industry was eventually realized at the age of 16 when he was accepted into the highly competitive WBEZ Radio Workshops. From his early start at WBEZ, Kent went on to join a local community theater group known as the Skyloft Players. Young and eager to learn, Herb performed on stage and soon realized that many of the skills required to be a successful stage actor applied to radio as well. 
Herb has been  a Radio pioneer and not only  as he been able to entertain and inform the crowd but also has proven to be a Chicago treasure 

Even Today, despite a very busy and sometimes hectic broadcast schedule hosting two highly rated shows on WVAZ FM, Herb shows no sign of slowing down. Kent is a contributing writer for N’DIGO Magazine, and lectures to communication students at Chicago State University. 

Herb Kent was honoured for the Longest serving male Disk Jockey  with      WVAZ FM,

United States of America  in Chicago on December 4,2009.