Who Is Kim Komando’s Husband?

The Kim Komando Show is broadcast and syndicated on over 435 radio stations in the US and two stations in Ontario, Canada to an estimated 3.5+ million listeners. (See Popular US Radio Shows) Her Consumer Tech Upbeen in a relationship with? 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 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 and in April 2016 was the keynote speaker at the NAB Show Radio Luncheon to an audience of industry leaders. In 2016, she was nominated to the National Radio Hall of Fame. In January 2017, she was appointed to Forbes Magazine Tech Council. On October 9, 2019, Kim presented a keynote speech about cybersecurity at the John Glenn NASA Research Center in Cleveland that was broadcast to all 60,000 NASA employees.

The Kim Komando radio show airs on more than 435 radio stations in the US and in 177 different countries on Armed Forces Radio. The Kim Komando Television Show premiered globally on Bloomberg TV January 5, 2019.

Komando refers to herself as “America’s Digital Goddess”. As of May 2018, her website, Komando.com, serves 2.7 million unique visitors each month and she sends 500 million newsletters per year to subscribers.

In 2017, Komando was nominated for the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Marconi Radio Award in the Network/Syndicated Personality of the Year category.

In 2016, Komando was the Keynote Speaker at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas.

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.

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.

In 1992, she formed “The Komando Corporation” with her as President/CEO and her mother as Secretary. 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. Over 150,000 tapes were sold for $80 to $120 each. 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.

In 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.

Kim says in her profile that she first used a computer at nine years of age. She graduated eighth grade from Watchung’s Valley View School in 1978. 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. 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.

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.

She splits her time between her homes in Arizona and Maui, Hawaii. She has full broadcast studios in both locations. She is an avid car collector and owns a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta, Mercedes-AMG GTC Roadster, Mercedes-AMG G63 Edition 1, Mercedes-AMG G63, Mercedes-AMG C63s Ocean Blue Edition, 1946 Chevrolet Truck, 1961 Corvette, 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang, 1966 Custom Corvette, and a 1967 Corvette that was used in the movie Con Air. 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. They have a son named Ian.