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Don Dziedzina

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has been involved in the outdoors industry for nearly 35 years.

In 1995, Don began to produce and host the Illinois Outdoors Television Show. This show is taped on the water and in the field featuring the great outdoor opportunities that we all enjoy in Illinois. This show has been on the air every week since 1995 on a number of different television stations in the Chicago market including broadcast WYCC, Comcast Cable, Insight Cable, MediaCom Cable, broadcast WCFC Rockford and Comcast Cable’s local access stations in south Chicagoland. Illinois Outdoors TV curretnly has a reach of nearly seven million viewers weekly.

On Don’s website, www.IllinoisOutdoors.com, visitors are able to view photos of the TV show host, visitor photos, view Illinois Outdoors TV shows and various outdoor video clips. Don also manages a Fishing and Hunting Report forum where visitors can share reports, ask questions, and post outdoor events.

As an outdoor writer, Don has published columns in eleven weekly newspapers through the Lincoln-Way Sun (member of the Sun Times News Group) and the Russell Publications. Don also has four monthly columns in three monthly outdoor magazines (MidWest Outdoors Magazine, Adventure Sports Outdoors Magazine, and Heartland Outdoors Magazine) and an occasional article in one bi-weekly outdoor newspaper (Illinois Outdoors News).

In 2005 and 2006, Don won the Illinois Outdoor Writer of the Year Award. In 2005 he also won the Reader's Choice Award from MidWest Outdoors Magazine. And, the Illinois Press Association awarded Don with 1st Place in a writer's competition for a Sports Column. The column that won was deer hunting in southern Illinois.

Don also co-hosts and co-produces a second television show, The All Outdoors Television Show which began in 1999 and continues to run every week. This show is co-hosted and co-produced by Rich Komar. The All Outdoors TV Show is a studio show that features outdoors news, new and unusual outdoor products, guests from the outdoors industry, photos, and more. Ron Miltzow provides viewers with fishing or hunting tips every week. This show has been light heartedly coined as being, "The only All Outdoors TV show taped entirely indoors." This show also airs in the greater Chicagoland market on Comcast Cable and MediaCom Cable.

In May of 2006, Don joined the long running outdoor radio team of Ray Ludkevicz and Jim DaRosa on The Fishing Line and Outdoors Radio Show that broadcasts live every week on four radio stations in northern Illinois. In 2008, the show celebrates its 25th year of weekly broadcasting. The show is heard simulcast on five stations throughout Chicagoland. The show airs on WCSJ AM 1550, WCSJ FM 103.1, WSPY FM 107.1, WSPY AM 1480, and WSQR AM 1180 live every Wednesday from 6:30 to 7:30 PM. The Fishing Line and Outdoor Radio Show can also be heard the show’s website, www.FishingLineRadio.com. Don has also given hundreds of fishing seminars at major outdoor shows and at fishing club meetings. His topics have covered Chicagoland waters and fishing techniques.

An avid angler and one who also enjoys hunting, Don loves to share his experiences with others through his TV and radio shows, within his outdoor columns, at seminars, and public appearances.