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".
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.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 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.