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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.
In 2004, Jerry Reinsdorf, Bill Wirtz, and the Tribune Company—the owners of the Bulls and White Sox, Blackhawks, and Cubs respectively—formed a new regional sports network with Comcast known as Comcast SportsNet Chicago (later named NBC Sports Chicago). The network was jointly owned by the four teams, while Comcast held a 30% stake and ...
David Emmanuel Kaplan is an American sports columnist, radio and television personality who currently co-hosts Kap and J. Hood on ESPN 1000 and manages a YouTube page, @rekapdavidkaplan, where he posts recaps of Cubs, White Sox, and Bears games, as well as other Chicago and major sporting events.
[3] [4] CSN Chicago was created in order for the four teams to have editorial control over their broadcasts, although the network continued to share the rights to the Cubs, White Sox, Blackhawks and Bulls with WGN-TV (channel 9, which was owned by Tribune) and (until 2014) WCIU-TV (channel 26). Comcast SportsNet Chicago launched on October 1, 2004.
The White Sox finished the 2015 season, their 115th in Chicago, with a 76–86 record, a three-game improvement over 2014. [38] The White Sox recorded their 9,000th win in franchise history by the score of 3–2 against the Detroit Tigers on September 21, 2015.
NBC Sports Chicago shut down operations on September 30, 2024 after NBCUniversal's partners in the network, owners of the Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox did not renew rights. The teams established a new channel, Chicago Sports Network (CHSN) with Standard Media Group to broadcast their games instead.
This is the sixth time in franchise history that the White Sox have lost 100 games. It happened twice before MLB expanded in 1961, first in 1932 (49-102) and then in 1948 (51-101).
He has also called Chicago White Sox games in 2015 as a fill-in for then play-by-play broadcaster, Ken "Hawk" Harrelson. [12] On September 7, 2016, Swirsky was inducted into the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame. In May 2018, he was inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame and the WGN Radio Walk of Fame.