Don Kent (meteorologist)

Don Kent was a meteorologist for several decades in Boston. He began at WBZ (AM) radio in 1951, a Boston station. He also appeared on WBZ-TV which was then an NBC television network affiliate. He retired in 1985. Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting. ... WBZ (AM) is the callsign for an AM radio station in Boston, Massachusetts which is owned by CBS Radio (formerly Infinity Broadcasting), which itself is owned by the CBS Corporation. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... WBZ-TV, CBS 4, is the CBS television owned-and-operated station serving the Boston, Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire television markets. ... NBC (an abbreviation for National Broadcasting Company, its former corporate name) is an American television network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center and is shown on basic cable in Canada. ...

He also demonstrated an exemplary Boston accent. He greeted his audiences, saying "Good mahning, ev'rybahdy." The Boston accent is the English dialect not only of the city of Boston, Massachusetts itself, but more generally of all of eastern New England; some form of it can be heard commonly in an area stretching throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, southern Maine, and eastern Connecticut. ...