Local Talk Show Personality Becomes One of Few to Do Both TV and Radio

Local radio personality Michael Patrick Shiels is one of only a few radio hosts who will have both a radio and TV show.

According to excerpts from the article:

Shiels’s show is being simultaneously broadcast on Fox 47 WYSM, making it a footnote in radio history, as it joins the ranks of only a few other radio-TV combos, two of which were produced for national audiences. The defunct Don Imus show was one; another is the long running “Mike and Mike in the Morning” on ESPN.

During a visit to his Michigan Avenue storefront studio last Thursday, Shiels was taking the preparations in stride, as seven robotic cameras were being tested in their final shakedown.

He wasn’t even sure what the program would be, come Monday, but Shiels went about his business in his typical low-key manner, bantering with call-in guests, the weatherman and producer Amanda Wall.

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