KEN ADELSON

Senior Vice President, Production Operations and Planning
National Basketball Association
Ken Adelson is Senior Vice President, Production Operations and Planning for NBA Entertainment (NBAE), supervising the budget and finance process and overseeing the daily operations of the library, logging, retrieval and post production editing areas. Ken has a key role in NBA Entertainment's push into digital media in production, distribution and archiving.

Previously, Adelson served as Senior Vice President, Production, Managing Director of NBAE, Director of Production for NBAE’s Sales, Marketing and PSA group and Senior Producer.

Prior to joining NBAE as a Producer in October 1990, Adelson worked as a sports anchor/producer for a variety of television stations, including WVIT-TV in Hartford, Conn., KTVK-TV in Phoenix, Arizona and KTVX-TV in Salt Lake City, Utah. He began his broadcasting career in 1982 with a dual role of sportscaster and sports director at WECT-TV in Wilmington, N.C.

Adelson graduated from the University of Florida, Gainesville with a B.S. in Broadcasting. He and his wife Lauren have two sons, Richard and Michael. 10/05