Brant Hansen
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Brant Hansen with an accordion on Chicken Street in Kabul Afghanistan in 2012.
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October 11, 1969 Assumption, Illinois |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois |
| Occupation | Radio host, author |
| Website | www |
Brant Page Hansen (born October 11, 1969) is an American radio personality and author. He has hosted the morning show on the national Christian radio WAY-FM Network and the afternoon show on the national Christian radio network Air1. He has a nationally syndicated radio show carried on over 200 stations in the United States, and is the storyteller for CURE International, a network of charity hospitals and clinics in 30 countries. He is also the midday host for KSGN in Riverside, California.
Hansen graduated from the University of Illinois school of journalism in 1991. Hansen began his radio career while at the college rock station WPGU. Hansen moved on to be the morning show host for contemporary Christian WBGL-FM in Champaign, IL., then moved to Houston, TX and worked at 89.3FM KSBJ. He was the news director and also an on-air personality By 2001, Hansen had moved back to Champaign, IL and was host of "The Brant Hansen Show" on WDWS 1400 talk radio.
After leaving WDWS, Hansen moved to south Florida in 2003 and joined WAY-FM, where he spent eight years as host of Mornings with Brant. During his time at WAY, he won the Radio and Records Achievement Award for "Personality of the Year" in a Christian format, also winning a Radio Echo Award for "Personality of the Year" from Christian Music Broadcasters in 2008. Hansen also partnered with several international ministries for radio promotions, including Compassion International,World Vision and CURE International. In 2009 and again in 2010, Hansen travelled to Kabul, Afghanistan promoting surgeries performed at the CURE International hospital there. On June 29, 2011, he ended an eight-year run of his Mornings With Brant show, nationally syndicated by WAY-FM.
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