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Local media giants Tom Barnard, Don Shelby team up

Can Tom Barnard and Don Shelby share the same stage? We're about to find out. The radio giant's podcast show became available live starting Tuesday afternoon.

By Neal Justin

May 29, 2013 at 1:41PM

Tom Barnard, during a live broadcast of the KQRS Morning Show from The Golden Nugget in Las Vegas in November 2009. (Joel Koyama — Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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Tom Barnard/photo by Carlos Gonzalez

Can Tom Barnard and Don Shelby share the same stage? We're about to find out.

The radio giant's podcast show will be available live starting 4 p.m. Tuesday--and he's got some heady company to mark the occasion.

BringMetheNews is now partnering with Barnard's podcast and, as part of the deal, he'll be joined live for the first 15 minutes of every show by either BMTN founder Rick Kupchella, Minnesota news veteran Amy Hockert or Shelby.

"Too many people base their opinions today on opinion," Shelby said. "We are going to base opinion on fact."

Barnard's podcast now receives more than 200,000 views a month.

You can check out the free programs at tombarnardpodcast.com

about the writer

Neal Justin

Critic / Reporter

Neal Justin is the pop-culture critic, covering how Minnesotans spend their entertainment time. He also reviews stand-up comedy. Justin previously served as TV and music critic for the paper. He is the co-founder of JCamp, a non-profit program for high-school journalists, and works on many fronts to further diversity in newsrooms.