Chuck Garfien

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Chuck Garfien is an anchor/reporter for NBC Sports Chicago. [1] [2] He is the host of White Sox Pregame/Postgame Live and White Sox field reporter. Since joining NBC Sports Chicago in 2004, Garfien has won 6 Chicago/Midwest Emmy awards for feature stories on Chicago sports.

Along with his work on-air and writing for nbcsportschicago.com, Garfien hosts the White Sox Talk Podcast, featuring interviews, news and discussions regarding the club.

Prior to joining NBC Sports Chicago, Garfien was an anchor/reporter for Fox Sports Net in Denver. He served a two-year stint with ESPN and was one of the original anchors on ESPNEWS. He was the Sports Director for two years at WWJ-TV/WKBD-TV, the CBS and UPN affiliates in Detroit, and was a sports anchor/reporter for WABC-TV in New York City. Garfien was also a sports anchor/reporter at WHTM-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and had his first on-air sportscasting job at WPBN-TV in Traverse City, Michigan.

He graduated from USC with a degree in communications and attended Homewood-Flossmoor High School. [3] Garfien's broadcasting career began at Homewood-Flossmoor High School, where he spent 4 years working for WHFH. He was the station manager during his senior year.

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  2. ↑ "ON-AIR TALENT". CSN Chicago. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  3. ↑ Castle, George (25 November 2013). "H-F alum Garfien jumps behind camera to time-trip into Bears history". NWI Times. Retrieved 2 September 2015.


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