iJustine Reunites With KDKA Radio After More Than 10 Years

Larry Richert, iJustine, Jenna Ezarik
Photo credit Rob Graner

PITTSBURGH (Newsradio 1020 KDKA) - Justine Ezarik, better known by iJustine, joined Larry and John on KDKA Radio more than 10 years ago.

At the time, she was building her social media profile by streaming her life 24/7 on Justin.tv (now Twitch.tv).

She is now an international phenomenon, and came back to the KDKA Radio Studios on Thursday joined by her sister Jenna who has over 373,000 followers on Instagram and her dog Matty who has almost 110,000 followers!

Matty was on the radio this morning @KDKARadio pic.twitter.com/Rs9DTCwfzJ

— iJustine+ (@ijustine) April 4, 2019

“When I saw that Justin (Kan, Twitch TV co-founder) was doing this, and created this platform to live stream, I thought, this is cool, I definitely want to try it out,” iJustine said.  

However, streaming live was a lot more difficult in 2007. 

“Back then, I had a computer, I was wearing a camera on my head, which is so absurd,” iJustine explained.

“All of that is happening on people’s phones now, whereas, I had this huge setup. Now people can just go live instantly.”

Me and one of my moms

A post shared by Matty (@djminimatt) on Mar 15, 2019 at 9:55am PDT

A graduate from Bentworth High School, She is now considered an influencer, and companies are reaching out to her asking to promote their products all the time.

You can look for her in the upcoming film, “The Great One,” a story about Roberto Clemente and the affect he had on the Pittsburgh community.

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