After being off the air at WFRV-TV since August, sports director Burke Griffin is back in the game.
He returned to the 6 p.m. newscast May 11 alongside news anchors Tom Zalaski and Staci Engebretson and talked briefly with them about his extended absence.
“Had some health issues … getting old, that kind of fun stuff, but back in the saddle, as they like to say,” Griffin said. “No, I’m just excited to get going again.”
With that, he went about delivering the night’s sports news.
He first announced his return a night earlier during a segment on “Sunday Sports Xtra,” the weekly WFRV show Griffin has hosted since 1999. He told co-host and sports reporter Kyle Malzhan he had been dealing with a foot issue. He thanked his medical team and his WFRV colleagues who stepped in to help out while he was away.
Griffin missed the entire Green Bay Packers season last year and also the arrival of Engebretson as Zalaski’s new evening co-anchor in October. The 6 p.m. newscast was the first with the three of them together at the anchor desk.
Griffin, a Racine native and a University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh graduate, has been at the Green Bay station since 1995.
Kendra Meinert is an entertainment and feature writer at the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Contact her at 920-431-8347 or kmeinert@greenbay.gannett.com. Follow her on X @KendraMeinert.
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