Stan Katz

Stan Katz (born 25 March 1949) is a South African broadcaster, best known as the presenter of Radio 702's highly rated Morning Zoo show. Katz would later become the CEO of Primedia Broadcasting. Background Katz completed a B.Com at the University of the Witwatersrand and began his broadcasting career at Swazi Music Radio where he was a radio presenter and programme director. In 1976 he began his own communications company and began staging music festivals in South Africa. He wrote and produced 'A Tribute to Jimmy Hendrix' at the Market Theatre (Johannesburg). He returned to radio presenting in 1982 with an afternoon slot on Radio 702 presenting “The Stan Katz Goodtime Lowdown Rock and Roll Radio Show”. Three years later he became the station's Sales and Marketing Director. By 1987 he was both the managing director of the station and popular host of the highly rated Morning Zoo. In 1994 he became CEO of Primedia Broadcasting and oversaw the establishment of Cape Town's premier radio station, Cape Talk. Several years later, he co-founded MobiBlitz, a mobile media company specializing in the deployment of Bluetooth systems in shopping malls.