Ken Pries currently serves as the Vice President of Broadcasting and Communications for the Oakland Athletics

Oakland Athletics

The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the O.co Coliseum....

, a position he has held since March, 2000. His time with the A's stretches back to 1991, when he worked as the team's executive producer of their radio broadcasts. His responsibilities, according to the 2006 A's Media Guide, is "negotiating all of the teams' broadcast agreements which include the A's Radio Network, cable partner FSN

Fox Sports Net

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 Bay Area, and over the air rightsholder KICU Action 36 Cable 6."

Biography

Ken Pries was born in Alameda, California

Alameda, California

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, and attended San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University

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, where he majored in broadcast communicational arts.

From 1979-1984, Pries worked as a sports coordinator for KNBR

KNBR

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 radio in San Francisco, handling the broadcasts for the San Francisco Giants

San Francisco Giants

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, the Golden State Warriors

Golden State Warriors

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 and University of San Francisco

University of San Francisco

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 basketball. He moved on to KSFO, where he was the executive producer of broadcasting for the A's, and also handled the Stanford

Stanford Cardinal

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football and men's basketball broadcasts.