Summary: Nick Griffith will be leaving Topeka to join the sports team at KMBC-TV9 to replace the departing Andy Fales. 01-10-2008
Nick Griffith
GRIFFITH DEPARTS KTKA IN TOPEKA FOR KMBC-TV9
Nick Griffith will be leaving KTKA-ABC 49 in Topeka as sports director to assume duties as a sports reporter/ anchor with KMBC-TV9, Kansas City's ABC affiliate. He will join KMBC on Monday, (1/14/08) after covering the University of Kansas game in the Orange Bowl in Miami for KTKA. Griffith joined KTKA, which is owned by Free State Communications, in December 2005 as sports director/anchor, where he led coverage of the Kansas City Chiefs, Royals and the Kansas Jayhawks. Prior to coming to Topeka he lived in eastern Idaho where he spent more than two years as the sports director for KIDK in Idaho Falls. Originally from Madison, Indiana, Griffith was a three-sport athlete in high school and went on to play baseball at Miami (Ohio) University in Oxford. Topeka is ranked as the nation's 139th TV market and Kansas City holds down the 31st spot. According to Jeffrey Flanagan of the Kansas City Star (1/3) speculation is that Griffith will be the new heir-apparent to KMBC sports director and NFL Hall of Famer Len Dawson whenever Dawson decides to hang it up. http://www.kansascity.com/sports/columnists/jeffrey_flanagan/story/428178.html
