Matt Spiegel
Matt Spiegel is a sports talk show host and singer based in Chicago.
Early life
Spiegel grew up in New Jersey as the youngest of five children. He studied broadcasting at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts where he won several sportscasting awards. He enjoyed internships at MLB Productions working on This Week in Baseball, and at WBZ-TV in Boston, working Bob Lobel and Bob Neumeier. Throughout the 90s, Spiegel was a producer, reporter, and talk show host at The Score SportsRadio 670 in Chicago, and was also a disc jockey for WXRT-FM.
Career
In 1999, Spiegel was the producer of Sound Opinions, a rock and roll talk show on WXRT, and moved with the show to WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio, where the show still is produced. It airs nationally through American Public Media.
As a singer and band leader, Spiegel released two albums with brother Jon and their band Brother Brother in the 90s. In 2002, Spiegel founded Tributosaurus, "the beast of multiple musical faces." Every month, the band welcomes guest artists from around the Chicago area for concerts.[1]
Recent activities
In 2007, Spiegel moved to Los Angeles, where he founded the LA edition of Tributosaurus, and resumed his career with Sporting News Radio.
In 2009, Spiegel teamed up with Dan McNeil, at WSCR 670 AM in Chicago, to co-host the "Danny Mac Show" from 9 am to 1 pm.
In 2011 "The Danny Mac Show" changed its name to "The McNeil and Spiegel Show."[2]
In 2014, Dan McNeil left WSCR, and Spiegel became the driver of a new midday show with former Bears long snapper Patrick Mannelly.
He now hosts a show with Jason Goff, entitled Spiegel and Goff
He writes a weekly baseball column for The Daily Herald.
Spiegel is married, and the father of son Rubin, who is named in honor of his deceased mother.
He lives in the South Loop neighborhood of Chicago.