By Rick Kaempfer
LISA DENT: HALL OF FAMER
Lisa Dent
U
S-99 Morning co-host Lisa Dent is
going into the Country Radio Hall of
Fame, and she’s still finding it a little
hard to believe, even though she’s known
about it now for a few months.
“I found out from (co-host) Ray
(Stevens),” she confessed. “Ray told me
before the holidays but said, ‘When they call
you, you better act surprised and fake it.’
When he told me I cried. Although I wasn’t
sure he was telling me the truth—so I said
‘You better be telling me the truth!’ It would
have been doubly embarrassing to be crying
if it wasn’t true. With Ray, you never know
for sure. “
Any lingering doubts she had will be offi-
cially erased in the very near future. “Luke
Bryan will be doing the introduction and
acknowledgement of the Class of 2016 at
Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, which
takes place February 8-10,” she says. “The
induction ceremony itself is in June. I get to
choose who inducts me – and they told me it
could be anyone, someone in my family, an
artist, a radio colleague, whatever. I haven’t
decided yet. I did talk to my family and they
said ‘No Way’, so that’s my next big decision.”
Lisa’s journey to the Hall of Fame has
been a long one with lots of stops along the
w