T. D. Mischke
| T.D. Mischke | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 19, 1962 Minnesota, United States |
| Show | The Nite Show |
| Time slot | Monday to Thursday, 10:00- Midnight |
| Station(s) | 830 WCCO |
| Style | Talk, comedy, stream of consciousness |
| Country | United States |
| Previous show(s) |
The Mischke Broadcast (1994–2008) In the Stream (2009–2010) |
| Website | tdmischke |
Thomas David "T.D." Mischke (born September 19, 1962) is a Minnesota writer, musician, and former radio talk show host on WCCO NewsRadio 830 based in Minneapolis. He was formerly employed at City Pages, a Twin Cities alternative news, arts and entertainment publication. For 17 years he hosted The Mischke Broadcast on am1500 KSTP, until it was cancelled in December 2008. His show featured quirky regular callers, stream of consciousness humor, and experts on any topic he found interesting. Since 1998, Mischke has been the winner of the "Best AM Radio Personality" award given by the local weekly alternative newspaper City Pages nine times.
Mischke hosted a daily webcast entitled In the Stream for City Pages from March 2009 until February 2010. He was most recently the host of The Nite Show weekdays from 10 PM to Midnight on WCCO Radio. His final show on WCCO was August 1, 2013.
In May 2014 Mischke launched the "The Mischke Roadshow" podcast on the Tom Barnard Podcast Network. The weekly podcast features interviews, music and comedy bits.
Mischke was born into a large Catholic family of six boys and two girls. He grew up in St. Paul's Groveland Park neighborhood. After a stint at Cretin High School, he graduated from Highland Park Senior High. He attended Saint John's University, the alma mater of his father and grandfather, planning to follow in his father's footsteps with a degree in journalism. Finding no journalism program at St. John's, he transferred to the University of St. Thomas where he graduated in 1987 and became a freelance writer.
In 1986–1987, Mischke was known as "The Phantom Caller" on Don Vogel's show, where he would randomly call in (without identifying himself) with tightly-written, sixty-second comedic bits. He so amused the radio personality that he was invited to become Don's sidekick on his show, Afternoon Saloon, on KSTP in 1992, during Vogel's second stint in the Twin Cities. After the stint as a sidekick, Mischke was given his own program on am1500 in January 1994.
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