Kyle Shiely

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Born
Kyle Rea Wolfram

(1975-12-20)December 20, 1975
South Bend, Indiana, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota
OccupationExecutive Producer
EmployerHubbard Broadcasting Inc
Spouse(s)Bridget Anne Shiely
WebsiteKyleShiely.com

Kyle Rea Shiely (December 20, 1975) is a national award-winning American journalist and podcast producer known as "The Host Whisperer." He is currently the Executive Producer of the Garage Logic Podcast Network for Hubbard Broadcasting.

Biography

Childhood

Shiely was born Kyle Rea Wolfram on December 20th 1975, in South Bend, Indiana to Thomas Wolfram and Cynthia Shiely. He grew up in the Macalester-Groveland, Saint Paul area of Saint Paul, Minnesota. His great-great-great grandfather James Shiely was a contractor[1] whose draying business pulled the marble stone from the railroad to the State Capitol and Cathedral of Saint Paul.[2] His great-great grandfather was industrialist Joe Shiely Sr.

WCW Live and Podcast Pioneer

Kyle started his audio production career on the pioneering Internet radio show WCW Live.[3] with host Jeremy Borash. Shiely helped Borash and Bob Ryder launch the show initially in March of 1999.[4] Following his time with WCW, Shiely contributed as a photographer for Extreme Championship Wrestling's website ECWwrestling.com.[5][6] He also pioneered a weekly wrestling podcast in 2000 before IPods existed, interviewing WCW[7] and ECW wrestlers[8] and future WWE stars like CM Punk and Adam Pearce.[9][10]

Talk Radio

Shiely started working in terrestrial radio in February of 2002 at AM 1500 KSTP in St. Paul. Working his way up from weekend board-op, he ended up producing for talk personality Bob Davis.[11] When 1500 flipped to sports in 2010, Shiely landed at WCCO (AM)[12] where he produced for John Hines for more than five years.[13] Upon his retirement in 2018, the Hall of Fame broadcaster reflected on what working with Shiely meant for his career to the Star Tribune:

"For the most part I was alone on the air but my producers were legitimately partners. First, Kyle Shiely, now at MPR, who made me a better radio broadcaster than I am. We could have a show planned and if the news changed overnight, [Shiely] could reproduce the entire show coming in on the light rail."

MPR News

Following his successful run at WCCO, Shiely moved to local competitor MPR News in September of 2017.[14] In August of 2018 he took over the leadership role of production for the local broadcast of All Things Considered.

During this time as Senior Producer, Shiely oversaw both Morning Edition and ATC.[14] Shiely briefly gained notoriety uring the COVID-19 pandemic after a tweeting out an email from an 8-year-old listener to ATC.[15] While leading ATC, Shiely and his team won the National Headliner Award for covering the George Floyd Riots, a National Murrow Award for live coverage of the Mohamed Noor (police officer) verdict[16], the Public Media Award and many others. [17]

Lemonada Media

In March of 2022, Shiely joined Lemonada Media as their first Senior Producer,[18] leading "In The Bubble w/ Andy Slavitt" to number #3 in the Apple charts by August of that year.[19] Shiely expanded the former Senior White House Advisors podcast from its COVID-19 roots to a three-days-a-week general news show.[19] He also produced the third season of No One is Coming to Save Us, featuring a live national tour of 10 cities.[20][21]

On the final episode of In the Bubble, Slavitt shared his thoughts about working with Shiely:

“I want to say one final thing of thanks to you before I do my final goodbye here, which is to thank you publicly for how you keep calm in a crisis like almost no one that I've met and maybe it comes from your live radio experience. But you know, I don't think people necessarily realize this... But before some of our shows, like mics aren't working and things aren't recording and people get ornery and people are like, well, what button should I hit? And no one knows what to tell them. And you've got an incredibly calm presence, which is, I think, meant to communicate things are going to be okay.... I think that's a crazy gift."[22]

Mischke Documentary

Following the end of "In The Bubble," Shiely created and produced the audio documentary "The Phantom Caller of the Twin Cities" for KFAI about radio legend T. D. Mischke. The episode aired originally in April of 2024.[23]

Executive Producer of the Garage Logic Podcast Network

In July of 2024, Shiely returned to Hubbard Broadcasting as the Executive Producer of the Garage Logic Podcast Network. In January of 2025 he relaunched "News From the Crabby Coffee Shop" with Kenny Olson and Amy Daniels. A month later, he created the new "Mischke" podcast hosted Tommy Mischke.

Boxing and MMA Judge

Shiely was elected head Mixed martial arts judge by the Minnesota Combative Sports Commission in March of 2011. During his time as a boxing and MMA judge, he judged numerous boxing title fights for and a UFC main event at the Target Center[24][25][26]

MMA Blogger

From 2009-2011, Shiely wrote about MMA around the State of Minnesota for the Minnesota Star Tribune[27], extensively covering the career of Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar for the paper online.

Mental Health Advocate

The survivor of childhood abuse, Shiely is a vocal advocate for the neurodiverse.[28] He's written extensively about the struggles growing up under a narcissistic mother.[29]

References

  1. ↑ "Who Built Our Capitol - James M Shiely".
  2. ↑ University of Minnesota. "Who Built Our Capitol". Who Built Our Capitol.
  3. ↑ Larson, Tim. "Who's Who in the Upper Midwest". Retrieved 4 June 2025.
  4. ↑ Reynold, R.D. (2004). Death of WCW (1st ed.). ECW Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-1770411753.
  5. ↑ "Photographer For Original Version Of ECW Website". ECWwrestling.com.
  6. ↑ The Multimedia Promoter, 2024-06-28, retrieved 2025-06-06
  7. ↑ Evans, Guy. Nitro (in Citations) (1st ed.).{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  8. ↑ Joel Gertner interviewed after an ECW show in Chicago circa 2000, retrieved 2025-06-09
  9. ↑ SPCW post show featuring Ray Whebbe, retrieved 2025-06-09
  10. ↑ "The Multimedia Promoter". open.spotify.com. Retrieved 2025-06-12.
  11. ↑ Garage Logic (2025-04-02). A Nomad's Life with Bob Davis. Retrieved 2025-06-05 – via YouTube.
  12. ↑ Brauer, David (2012-01-23). "Michele Tafoya out as WCCO Radio afternoon host". MinnPost. Retrieved 2025-06-12.
  13. ↑ C.J (2018-08-04). "C.J.: WCCO-AM's John Hines is calling it a career after the State Fair". www.startribune.com. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Lemonada Grows Team". Podcast Business Journal. 2022-03-15. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  15. ↑ "8-Year-Old Sends Stern Letter Urging NPR To Broadcast More Dinosaur Stories". HuffPost. 2021-02-10. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  16. ↑ "MPR News wins national Murrow Award for Noor trial coverage". MPR News. 2020-10-12. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  17. ↑ "Award Collection". archive.mpr.org. Retrieved 2025-06-06.
  18. ↑ "Steve Nelson, Kyle Shiely, & Rachel Neel join Lemonada Media". Barett Media. March 16, 2022.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 "The Outsider's Insider". The Pennsylvania Gazette. 2022-12-19. Retrieved 2025-06-12.
  20. ↑ "No One is Coming to Save Us". Lemonada Media. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
  21. ↑ "No One is Coming to Save Us Podcast". Neighborhood Villages. 2025-05-22. Retrieved 2025-06-12.
  22. ↑ "In The Bubble Says Goodbye Part 2 - In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt". omny.fm. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
  23. ↑ Shiely, Kyle. "The Phantom Caller of the Twin Cities". KFAI.org.
  24. ↑ "BoxRec: Kyle Shiely". boxrec.com. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  25. ↑ "Kyle Shiely :: Judge :: MMA Decisions". mmadecisions.com. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  26. ↑ https://www.commissions.leg.state.mn.us/inactive/sunset/meetings/2011/01172012Minutes.pdf
  27. ↑ Shiely, Kyle (2010-07-04). "UFC 116 Live Blog". www.startribune.com. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
  28. ↑ Holmes, Nick (2022-01-19). "Chasing MacNaughton S3E18: Kyle Let's Talk". Tech Hockey Guide. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
  29. ↑ Shiely, Kyle. "Outside The Wall | Kyle Shiely | Substack". shiely.substack.com. Retrieved 2025-06-04.

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