Kim Komando Biography
Kim Komando hosts two daily radio shows about consumer technology and a one-weekend radio show. She gives guidance on technology gadgets, websites, smartphone apps, and internet security on her weekly call-in show.
How old is Kim Komando? – Age
She is 54 years old as of 1 July 2021. She was born in 1967 in Watchung, New Jersey, United States. Her real name is Kimberly Ann Komando.
Kim Komando Family
Richard Paul “Dick” Komando, her father, was a United Airlines management employee and served in the Army during the Korean War. Virginia Komando, her mother, worked for Bell Laboratories as a senior systems analyst. Kim is the youngest of four siblings, having two sisters, Christine and Kathleen, and a brother, Richard.
Kim Komando Education
In 1978, she completed eighth grade at Valley View School in Watchung. In 1981, she was elected to the McAuley Chapter of the National Honor Society at Mount St. Mary Academy, a local Catholic private high school for girls. She attended Arizona State University after graduating from high school one year ahead of schedule as a junior and skipping a grade. She established her own business while still in school, teaching people how to use computers. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business when she was 19 years old.
Is Kim Komando still Married? – Husband
Her husband Barry Young, 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. Ian is the name of their kid.
Kim Komando Cars
She owns a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta, Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, Mercedes-AMG GTR Roadster, Mercedes-AMG GTC Roadster, Mercedes-AMG G63 Edition 1, two other Mercedes-AMG G63s, Corvette C8, 1946 Chevrolet Truck, 1961 Corvette, 1964 Jaguar E-Type, 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang, 1966 Custom Corvette, and a 1967 Corvette used in the film Con Air. She owned an Embraer Phenom 300 plane from 2018.
Is Kim Komando Legitimate?
She has a 3.8-star rating from 25 reviews, indicating that the majority of consumers are happy with their purchases. Customers that are happy with Komando typically note how useful the material is. Kim Komando is the eighth most popular radio website.
What antivirus does Kim Komando Recommend?
Listeners frequently ask Kim for her antiviral advice. She chose TotalAV after researching the best industry possibilities.
Kim Komando House
He put her Phoenix home on the market for $6.35 million. She paid $2.5 million for the 10,184-square-foot home in 2003 from the estate of Walt Disney’s late granddaughter, Victoria Lund, and spent another $2.5 million on renovations over the years. The property, located at 5255 N. 47th St., near the base of Camelback Mountain, has seven bedrooms and 7.5 baths on 1.6 acres.
Kim Komando Radio
Komando and her husband Barry Young founded the WestStar TalkRadio Network (now WestStar Multimedia) in the mid-1990s. In 1994, they created their first studio. ABC and CBS Radio declined on the show in 1994, claiming that a national radio show on the issue would be unsuccessful since computers and the Internet were a craze at the time.
WestStar employees moved into a $7.5 million, 24,000 square-foot multimedia building with radio studios and TV show and podcast production capabilities in 2015. Komando spoke at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas in 2016 as the Keynote Speaker. Komando was nominated for the Marconi Radio Award in the Network/Syndicated Personality of the Year category by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in 2017.
Komando was nominated for and inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in the year 2021. She had been nominated in the years 2018, 2019, and 2020. The Kim Komando radio show is broadcast on Armed Forces Radio in 177 countries and over 435 radio stations in the United States. Bloomberg TV debuted The Kim Komando Television Show on January 5, 2019.
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; and The Other Side with Steve Godfrey, a call-in talk show in which the title host attempted to communicate with spirits, were among WestStar’s radio formats. WestStar will continue to distribute Komando’s two daily national radio programs, as well as the weekend show and Mannheim Steamroller’s annual Christmas special, An American Christmas, until 2020.
Kim Komando Career
Komando began his career in sales with IBM, AT&T, and Unisys. She marketed mainframe computers at Unisys. Honeywell purchased a $11 million Unisys system from her. While hosting a call-in computer talk program, Kim Komando published a column for the Arizona Business Gazette on computers. It aired on KFYI in Phoenix, Arizona, late at night.
She founded “The Komando Corporation” in 1992, with her mother as Secretary and her as President/CEO. She left Unisys sales to focus on her syndicated newspaper column and radio show, despite the fact that the column and show combined only paid her $60 per week. Komando created computer training tapes called Komputer Tutor, which she wrote, hosted, and sold through an infomercial. Over 150,000 tapes were sold, with prices ranging from $80 to $120 per. Prodigy was part of the second generation of cassettes. The third generation of tapes includes America Online. Kim Komando negotiated a position leading AOL’s computer area. For several years, “Kim Komando’s Komputer Klinic” was hosted under the domain Komando.com.
From 1995 until 1998, Komando was the Technology Editor at Popular Mechanics Magazine. Since February 2002, she has written a weekly column for USA Today. She has written 12 computer and technology books. She supports a scholarship for female CIS students at her alma mater, ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business, through her philanthropic trust.
Kim Komando Salary
She earns an annual salary of $200 thousand.
Kim Komando Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.
