Chris Boden And Kaitlin Sharkey Join WGN Sports

Nexstar-owned WGN Chicago has added Chris Boden and Kaitlin Sharkey as fulltime sports anchor-reporters. Along with Jarrett Payton and Josh Frydman, they will cover stories across the Chicago sports spectrum, anchor sports segments throughout WGN newscasts, and host GN Sports, a live half-hour sports show airing seven nights a week at 10:30-11 p.m.
Pat Tomasulo continues in his role providing sports updates and other content on WGN Morning News.
Dominick Stasi, WGN news director, said: “We are excited to welcome Kaitlin Sharkey to the sports team and to have Chris join us officially. Both will be great assets as part of Chicago’s Very Own.”
Prior to WGN, Sharkey spent two years as sports anchor/reporter for WFLD Chicago. She also spent three years as sports anchor/reporter at WITI Milwaukee. A Milwaukee area native and graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sharkey worked for WBAY Green Bay, and WSAW Wausau, Wis., as a sports reporter/anchor. Sharkey will join the WGN sports team on June 6.
Boden has been a fill-in sports reporter with WGN News since August 2021; he joins the team full-time immediately. The veteran Chicago sportscaster and former Comcast SportsNet Chicago host grew up in south suburban Burbank and graduated from Luther South High School and Columbia College. He worked for more than 30 years covering local and national sports on both radio and television, including NFL Network, WFLD Chicago, WBBM Chicago, CLTV Chicago, WMVP-AM Chicago, WBBM-AM Chicago, Tribune Radio Networks (now Illinois News Networks, Chicago), WGN-AM Chicago and WCRX-FM Chicago.