| Silver Circle recipient, Don Kent, passed away at 92 | |
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He was the founding father of New England TV meteorologists. He was a true original | |
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Don Kent had a conversational style people could trust when they wanted to know if the day would bring rain or snow or the kind of sunny skies that made a weatherman smile. A meteorologist on radio and television before on-air voices became bland
and homogenized, Mr. Kent spoke with an accent that broadcast a life spent
in Boston, Quincy, and North Weymouth. And by taking weather seriously in an
era when many TV stations turned forecast segments into entertainment, he
set standards his successors still follow.Read more Former WBZ meteorologist and Boston weather legend Don Kent died March 2, 2010.See more |
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