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| name = Kim Komando | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Kimberly Ann Komando | birth_place = Watchung, New Jersey, U.S. | residence = Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. | nationality = American | alma_mater = Arizona State (B.S. 1985)[1][2] | occupation = National radio host, TV Host, author, syndicated columnist, business owner | known_for = Digital lifestyle national radio show | spouse = Barry Young | children = Ian | website = {{URL|https://www.komando.com}} }} Kimberly Ann "Kim" Komando (born 1967) is the host of a radio show about consumer technology. On her weekly call-in show, she provides advice about technology gadgets, websites, smartphone apps, and internet security. The Kim Komando Show is broadcast and syndicated on over 435 radio stations in the United States and two stations in Ontario, Canada to an estimated 3.5+ million listeners. (See Popular US Radio Shows) Her Consumer Tech Update airs on more than 390 stations five days a week. Her radio shows are also heard internationally on the Armed Forces Radio Network, covering 177 different countries. She hosts podcasts served to over 300,000 listeners per week. The Kim Komando Television Show premiered globally on Bloomberg TV January 5, 2019. Komando refers to herself as "America's Digital Goddess".[3][3] {{As of|2018|May}}, her website, Komando.com, serves 2.7 million unique visitors each month and she sends 500 million newsletters per year to subscribers.[4] Komando and her husband, Barry Young, own Phoenix, Arizona-based WestStar TalkRadio Network, which distributes the Komando radio program. Komando has appeared on CNN, CBS, MSNBC, ABC, BBC and Fox News, and her syndicated columns appear in USA Today and other newspapers. She has been a columnist for USA Today since February 2002. She won the Gracie Award for Outstanding Program Host in 2007[5] and in April 2016 was the keynote speaker at the NAB Show Radio Luncheon to an audience of industry leaders.[6][7] In 2016, she was nominated to the National Radio Hall of Fame. In January 2017, she was appointed to Forbes Magazine Tech Council. Early lifeKimberly Ann Komando was born and raised in New Jersey.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} Her father, Richard Paul "Dick" Komando served in the Army during the Korean War and was a management employee for United Airlines.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}} Her mother, Virginia Komando was a Senior Systems Analyst with Bell Laboratories.[8]{{citation needed|date=December 2013}} Kim is the youngest of four, a brother Richard and two sisters, Christine and Kathleen.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}} Kim says in her profile that she first used a computer at nine years of age.[9] She graduated eighth grade from Watchung's Valley View School in 1978.[10] She attended the nearby Catholic private high school for girls, Mount St. Mary Academy, where she was elected to the McAuley Chapter of the National Honor Society in 1981.[11][12][13] After graduating from high school in 1981, one year ahead of schedule as a Junior, and having skipped a grade, she attended Arizona State University. While in school, she started her own business to train people how to use their computers. Kim graduated from Arizona State University's W. P. Carey School of Business in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems.[2] She is frequently asked if "Kim Komando" is her real name, which it is. The name "Komando" is Russian-Ukrainian.[14] CareerKim Komando started out in sales, working for IBM, AT&T and Unisys. At Unisys, she sold mainframe systems. She sold Honeywell a Unisys system valued at $11 million. Kim Komando wrote a column about computers for the Arizona Business Gazette while she was hosting a call-in talk show on computers. It aired late at night on KFYI in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1992, she formed "The Komando Corporation" with her as President/CEO and her mother as Secretary.[15]{{citation needed|date=May 2018}} She quit sales at Unisys to focus on her syndicated newspaper column and radio show, though she was only earning $60 a week from the column and show combined. Komando developed computer training tapes that she wrote, hosted, and called Komputer Tutor, which she sold via an infomercial.[16][17][18] Over 150,000 tapes were sold for $80 to $120 each.{{Citation needed|date=April 2016}} The second generation of tapes included Prodigy. America Online was included with the third generation of tapes. Kim Komando negotiated a role running the computer section on AOL's site. The domain Komando.com hosted "Kim Komando's Komputer Klinic" for several years.[19] Komando was the Technology Editor of Popular Mechanics Magazine from 1995 to 1998. She has been a weekly columnist for USA Today since February 2002. She has written 12 books on computers and technology.[20]{{citation needed|date=May 2018}} Through her charitable trust, she sponsors a scholarship for students on her path, female CIS students at her alma mater, W. P. Carey School of Business at ASU.[21] Radio broadcastingIn the mid-1990s, Komando started the WestStar TalkRadio Network with her husband Barry Young. They built their first studio in 1994. In 1994, ABC and CBS Radio passed on the show, saying a national radio show on the subject would be unsuccessful, as computers and the Internet were a fad.[22] In 2015, the staff of WestStar moved into a $7.5 million, 24,000 square-foot multimedia facility with radio studios and production facilities for TV shows and podcasts.{{Citation needed|date=April 2016}} In 2016, Komando was the Keynote Speaker at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas. In 2017, Komando was nominated for the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Marconi Radio Award in the Network/Syndicated Personality of the Year category.[23] The Kim Komando radio show airs on more than 435 radio stations in the United States and in 177 different countries on Armed Forces Radio. The Kim Komando Television Show premiered globally on Bloomberg TV January 5, 2019. WestStar's radio offerings diversified into a number of other radio formats. The shows Komando and WestStar syndicated included; Your Weekend, an adult contemporary music program hosted by pianist Jim Brickman; Quiet Music, a smooth jazz program hosted by Nick Francis; Goddard's Gold and The '70s, classic hits/oldies programs hosted by Phoenix-area disc jockey Steve Goddard; The Other Side with Steve Godfrey, a call-in talk show in which the title host attempted to communicate with spirits; and An American Christmas, an annual Christmas special produced by Mannheim Steamroller. Personal lifeShe splits her time between her homes in Arizona and Maui, Hawaii. She has full broadcast studios in both locations. She is married to Barry Young, who is her business partner and former host of The Nearly Famous Barry Young Show, a local radio show on KFYI in Phoenix until November 2014.[24] They have a son named Ian.[25] Awards
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Carey News and Research|language=en|access-date=2019-03-20}} 22. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.komando.com/about/bio.aspx |title=Archived copy |access-date=October 31, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101226163138/http://www.komando.com/about/bio.aspx |archive-date=December 26, 2010 |dead-url=bot: unknown |df=mdy-all }} 23. ^{{cite web |title=2017 NAB Marconi Radio Award Finalists Announced - NAB Newsroom |website=National Association of Broadcasters |date=2017-07-10 |url=http://www.nab.org/documents/newsroom/pressRelease.asp?id=4193 |access-date=2017-09-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711235442/http://www.nab.org/documents/newsroom/pressRelease.asp?id=4193 |archive-date=July 11, 2017 |dead-url=no |df=mdy-all }} 24. ^{{cite web|title=Barry Young Announces Retirement from 550 KFYI & Mike Broomhead to Host Mornings {{!}} KFYI Blog {{!}} 550 KFYI|url=http://kfyi.iheart.com/onair/kfyi-blog-54924/barry-young-announces-retirement-from-550-12777394/|website=550 KFYI|publisher=iHeartMedia Phoenix|accessdate=February 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916040132/http://kfyi.iheart.com/onair/kfyi-blog-54924/barry-young-announces-retirement-from-550-12777394/|archive-date=September 16, 2016|dead-url=no|df=mdy-all}} 25. ^1 {{Cite web |url=http://www.komando.com/about-kim |title="About Kim" page on official website |access-date=April 29, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160503085622/http://www.komando.com/about-kim |archive-date=May 3, 2016 |dead-url=no |df=mdy-all }} 26. ^"[https://web.archive.org/web/20080406005008/http://www.talkers.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=102&Itemid=69 Talkers Magazine].talkers.com. 2007-05-26 27. ^{{cite web |title=FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit 2009 - Speakers |url=http://www.fortuneconferences.com/mpws_2009/women_speakers.html |website=www.fortuneconferences.com |access-date=May 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817034211/http://www.fortuneconferences.com/mpws_2009/women_speakers.html |archive-date=August 17, 2016 |dead-url=no |df=mdy-all }} 28. ^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldJkCbIrVsE External links
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