Chuck Garfien is an anchor/reporter for Chicago Sports Network. He is the host of White Sox Pregame and Postgame Live with Ozzie Guillén, Frank Thomas and other former White Sox players. Since joining NBC Sports Chicago in 2004, Garfien has won 6 Chicago/Midwest Emmy awards for feature stories on Chicago sports.
Garfien covers the White Sox on-air and writes for nbcsportschicago.com. He also hosts the White Sox Talk Podcast, featuring interviews, news and discussions regarding the club. The podcast surpassed five million downloads in July 2022.
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. 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.
References
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- 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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