Entering his 18th season with the Athletics organization, Ken Pries was promoted to his current position of vice president, broadcasting communication in March of 2000 after serving as the team's senior director for broadcasting and communications for the previous three years.

In his current position, Pries oversees all of the A's television and radio matters, in addition to the club's community relations, public relations and Diamond Vision departments.

Pries is responsible for negotiating all of the teams broadcast agreements which include the A's Radio Network, cable partner FSN Bay Area, and over the air rightsholder KICU Action 36 Cable 6. The A's televised 121 games locally in 2007, including 40 games produced in High Def by FSN. KICU has been the Broadcast Home of the A's since 1999.

Last season, the A's Community Fund distributed approximately $600,000 to various projects and made donations to over 1,500 various charities throughout Northern California. The annual A's Community Fund Golf Tournament held at the Castlewood Country Club in Pleasanton raised over $130,000 and the Ninth Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Day raised over $100,000 for the American Cancer Society and the Northern California Cancer Center. The A's Eighth Annual MUG Root Beer Float Day raised over $35,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The Second Annual Dinner on the Diamond featuring A's players raised over $100,000 for the A's Community Fund and Camp Okizu.

Prior to joining the A's organization in 1991, Pries worked seven years with KSFO radio, where he was an executive producer for A's broadcasts, as well as Stanford football and men's basketball broadcasts. Before enjoying a seven-year stint at KSFO, Pries worked as a sports coordinator at KNBR radio from 1979-84, where he worked on the station's broadcasts of San Francisco Giants baseball games, along with University of San Francisco and Golden State Warrior basketball games.

A native of Alameda, Pries attended San Francisco State University, where he majored in broadcast communicational arts. He resides in San Ramon with his wife and their two children.