Pat Batcheller is a host and Senior News Editor for 101.9 WDET, presenting local news, traffic and weather updates during Morning Edition. He is an amateur musician.
Batcheller joined WDET in 2007 after nine years at WWJ, where he was a news editor, producer and reporter. He started his broadcasting career in 1989 and has lived and worked in Michigan his entire life. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Specs Howard School of Media Arts. He has won multiple awards for excellence from the Associated Press, the Michigan Association of Broadcasters and the Society of Professional Journalists. He is an amateur musician, playing percussion in the Downriver Community Band.
On Aug. 7, 2018, voters in Michigan's 10th Congressional District will choose a Democratic nominee to run against Republican incumbent Rep. Paul Mitchell in November. WDET's Pat Batcheller interviewed...
Do you have questions about Libertarian gubernatorial candidate John Tatar as you prepare to vote in the August primary? WDET,...
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As you prepare to vote, WDET has resources about the gubernatorial candidates to help you decide which one you will support in...
Tensions were high in Detroit when a grocery store owner and two teenagers were killed in 1980. Then-Detroit Mayor Coleman...
A fire damaged the S.S. Ste. Claire, the last Bob-Lo boat on the Detroit River, on July 6, 2018. Detroit...
Michigan voters could decide whether to change the way the state’s political maps are drawn. A state elections board voted...
A state elections board certified a petition to change the method of setting the boundaries for Michigan's congressional and state...
Jamie Roe If this November's statewide ballot allows Michigan voters the choice to change the process of drawing the state's...
A proposal to change the way Michigan's political maps are drawn could be on the November ballot. The Voters Not...
