Thomas A. Carelli
Senior Vice President, Broadcasting
National Basketball Association
As Senior Vice President of Broadcasting for the National Basketball Association, Thomas Carelli manages the day-to-day relationships – including scheduling, production, promotion, content, sales and marketing – with the league’s national broadcast partners ABC, ESPN, and TNT. He is the primary contact for all team broadcast departments and coordinates distribution of league information and initiatives.
Carelli served as a Director of Broadcasting at NBA Entertainment from 1995 to 2000. Prior to this, he was an executive producer on NBA Radio from 1991 to 1995, where he launched and managed the league’s national radio network, coordinating affiliate relations, scheduling, and broadcast production. He also designed and implemented the NBA Hotline system of game and sound bite digital storage and exchange for team broadcasters. Carelli’s NBA career began in 1990, as a broadcast coordinator managing and maintaining relationships with national radio licensee and team TV and radio broadcasters.
Prior to joining the NBA, Carelli worked as an executive producer for WEEI-AM, the Boston Celtics Radio Network, in Boston. Here, he produced more than 200 live broadcasts of Celtics games, the Boston Marathon, and various nightly sports talk shows. He also managed all affiliate relations and negotiated all of the station’s contracts.
From 1984 to 1987, Carelli worked at WRKO-AM in Boston, where he produced more than 350 live game broadcasts for the Celtics, the Boston Red Sox, Boston College football, and nightly sports talk shows.
A 1984 graduate of Boston College, Carelli holds a bachelor of arts in history and speech communications. He lives in Yardley, Pa., with this wife Toni Amendolia and three children, Natalie, Thomas Jr., and Nicholas.
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