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Pat Gostele bio Save Email Print
Name: Pat Gostele
Title: Sports Director
Email Address: patrick.gostele@wifr.com

Pat Gostele joined WIFR as the weekend sports anchor in January of 2007 and was promoted to Sports Director in May of 2007. He is a graduate of Northern Illinois University where he received a B.A. in Communications and minored in Journalism. During his time at NIU, Pat was highly involved at the student television center, NTC.

During his senior year he was named NIU Broadcast Reporter of the Year and received an Illinois News Broadcasters Association award for Sports Reporting. Pat also worked as a correspondent on the NIU sports magazine show “Inside Huskie Sports” that appeared on Comcast SportsNet Chicago produced by NIU Media Services.

He has also lent his voice as the public address announcer for NIU Women’s Basketball. Pat previously interned in the sports department here at WIFR and at WFLD in Chicago.

Pat is a native of West Dundee, IL, where in his younger days was a member of the first ever 10-year old little league state championship team in Illinois. Although “ The Deer” has lost a step or two, he still enjoys playing sports as much he can.

Pat’s favorite teams are the Cubs, Bears, Bulls, and Huskies. He also enjoys hanging out with friends and family, Happy Wok, and the 1980’s.
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23 WIFR is owned by:
Gray Television Inc.
Gray currently operates 36 television stations serving 30 markets. Each of the stations are affiliated with either CBS (17 stations), NBC (10 stations), ABC (8 stations) or FOX (1 station). In addition, Gray currently operates 36 digital second channels including 1 ABC, 5 Fox, 7 CW and 15 MyNetworkTV affiliates plus 6 local news/weather channels and 2 “independent” channels in certain of its existing markets. Gray intends to start an additional 4 digital second channels during 2007 including 1 CW affiliate, 1 MyNetworkTV affiliate and 2 local news/weather channels. Gray Television Inc is part of the NYSE under ticker symbol GTN.
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