Dan Rieffer joined the Action News 36 team in January of 2008 as WTVQ’s Weekend Sports Anchor/Sports Reporter. Dan started out in the broadcast business at age 16 as a disc jockey at an AM country radio station in Williamsburg, Kentucky.

He made his television debut in 2000 as host of a weekly, half-hour high school sports program in Lexington, which he produced and hosted until 2003. He left Lexington for a sports anchor position at WRBL in Columbus, Georgia, where he served as the station’s Sports Director until 2006.

Dan and his wife Jennifer consider Kentucky home and returned to the Bluegrass in 2006, at which time he became the American Saddlebred Horse Association’s Communications Manager and served in that capacity for a little over a year until joining the team at Action News 36.

Dan graduated from Williamsburg High School, where he played football. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Kentucky in 1999.

Dan describes himself as a sports junkie. Besides sports, his passions are music, fishing and the great outdoors in general. He says, “I just love nature. I’ve been all over this country and I really think Kentuckians should consider themselves lucky to live in such a majestic state of natural beauty. There’s no place I’d rather be.”