Joy Cardin is a native of Appleton, Wisconsin, and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She worked as a reporter/anchor for commercial television stations in Wausau and Green Bay before accepting a reporting/hosting position at WPR's Green Bay bureau in 1986. She served as WPR's news director, talk director and Ideas Network director. She also co-hosted and helped develop the early-morning call-in program when the Ideas Network was created in 1990. She started hosting the morning show full-time in 2003.
Joy has received several awards for her reporting and editing and hosting. “The Joy Cardin Show” received the "Best Morning Talk Show" award from the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association in 2012. She served on the Board of Directors of We The People: Wisconsin, a civic journalism media collaboration.
When Joy isn't reading books and following politics and attempting to cook new recipes to prepare for her show, she enjoys yoga, fitness, adventure, arts and entertainment, travel, nature, the Green Bay Packers and animals. She doesn't enjoy winter driving, goat cheese or spiders. Joy and her husband (Rob Starbuck) share their Madison home with Lady, an Australian Shepherd Mix and Ray, an orange and white polydactyl tabby cat.
