Website: http://www.mynorthwest.com
Matt Markovich brings 30+ years worth of reporting experience to KIRO Newsradio.
He was originally brought to Seattle by KIRO-TV in 1991. After three years, he moved over to KOMO-TV and was there until the fall of 2021. After that, he did some fill-in talk show work here at KIRO-FM before moving over to FOX 13 as their political reporter. He’s a winner of 14 Northwest Emmy Awards.
Matt began his broadcast career at KMET-FM in Los Angeles as a surf reporter while was going to college at UC Santa Barbara (his hometown) and making Mr. Zog’s Sex Wax. If you know what it is, you know why Matt was hired as a surf reporter.
KMET brought him on full-time as a 19 year old radio producer/reporter at one of the largest rock ‘n roll stations in the country.
He later finished up college at San Diego State University.
He races Hobie Catamarans competitively, loves to ski, now ‘surfs’ the world wide web and shares travel secrets.
He’s been married to his wife Carlissa for 26 years, has a son Josh, 23 and daughter Jessie 21 plus two labs Mekah and Georgia.
