Kent Phillips is a co-host of KOMO 4's live daily talk show Northwest Afternoon. Kent has been involved in radio and TV since age 14, starting as a night host on KZAM-FM in Seattle. He worked in Spokane and Portland before finally returning to Seattle at Star 101.5 radio as a morning co-host of the Kent and Alan show in 1986. The Kent and Alan show is the longest running morning show on one station in Seattle.

Phillips worked for Public Television in Portland winning multiple SDX Awards for Outstanding Documentary Reporting. In 1991 he was co-host of KIRO-TV's Inside Line and has appeared in several television shows, including Knot's Landing.

Phillips joined Northwest Afternoon in 1994 as a fill-in host for Cindi Rinehart's Soap Opera segment and joined the show as a co-host with Elisa Jaffe in 1996.

Some of Kent's favorite interviews include guests from Jimmy Carter to Colin Powell to Donny Osmond. Favorite shows have included poignant programs such as reuniting transplant patients with donor families to fun shows, including wrestling to female sumo champions.

Phillips has won multiple SDX and RTNDA Awards for News and Documentaries and the UPI National Award for Documentary reporting. He has been nominated for several Emmy's for Northwest Afternoon and won the Emmy for Non-News Talent in 1998 for a program on transplant patients and their families.

Phillips is active in the community hosting dozens of events each year for charity. He has served on the Boards of Starlight Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, Bellevue Civic Theatre, Renton Civic Theatre, Eastside Christian School, Ballet Bellevue and is active as a lay leader in the Presbyterian Church.

Free time is spent traveling with his wife Kelley and children Megan and Spencer. All of the family is involved in acting and can been seen acting in local plays throughout the year.

Phillips was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but grew up in Bellevue, Washington. He is a graduate of Bellevue High, has a B.A. from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington and is slowly working on a Master's Certificate from Fuller Theological Seminary.