Al is a fifty-four year veteran of the radio news business, thirty-four of those years spent as "The Voice of KCBS” in The San Francisco Bay Area.  He has received numerous awards in broadcasting including The Edward R. Murrow Award For News Broadcasting and The Lifetime Achievement Award From The Society For Professional Journalists and from the Association of Professional Radio and Television Artists of California and Nevada .  The City and County of San Francisco proclaimed it Al Hart Day in San Francisco in 1996 and again in 2000. Currently, you can hear Al Hart on KCBS on Wednesday mornings at 8:15 with John Madden and at different times through out the week days with special stories that he writes and produces for the station.   Al represents various clients in radio commercials for their products and businesses as well as public service announcements for special charity events.  Al's voice is said to be the most recognizable radio voice in the Bay Area. He is often greeted by strangers in far away places (Paris, Venice, New York, Chicago), strangers who have never seen him but overhear him speaking and recognize his voice.     In addition to his career as a broadcast news journalist, Al has worked as a disc jockey, television personality, and has been a night club performer as a singer.  He recorded with Mercury Records.  His style is that of a crooner.  He sings today for charity events and at personal appearances for clients.  He is an actor. Some of his theater productions include the part of Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, The Rag Picker in The Mad Woman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudouz, The Inquisitor in The Lark, and Thomas Mendip, in The Lady’s Not For Burning, by Christopher Frye and many other roles.   He has just completed a live production with The Legends of Radio as the narrator in the acclaimed radio thriller, The Hitch Hiker by Lucille Fletcher.    Al Hart is a member of AFTRA and SAG.