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Art Berke has worked at the highest level of the sports industry, and has held  executive  positions with Major League Baseball, ABC Television, Sports Illustrated and most recently the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center.

Immediately before joining Diamond Sports Berke was the Chief Operating Officer at the Museum & Learning Center for three years. His responsibilities there focused on the daily operation of the non-profit’s activities, including the oversight of an expansion/renovation.

For nearly 20 years, Berke was the Director and ultimately Vice President of Communications for the Sports Illustrated franchise, responsible for all public relations, publicity and charity activities.  Berke’s duties at Sports Illustrated were wide-ranging.  He had communications oversight for SI, SI.com and SI Kids, serving as the franchise’s chief spokesman. He also was in charge of the day-to-day publicity and the promotional strategy behind the popular Swimsuit and Sportsman of the Year issues, played key roles in the magazine’s 35^th, 40^th and 50^th anniversary celebrations and represented the SI franchise in a variety of charitable and community activities. In addition to his communications duties, Berke was the Senior Production Executive for three SI-branded network primetime specials–20^th Century Sports Awards (CBS), Sportsman of the Year 2000 (CBS) and Night of Champions (NBC)–as well as Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year Show 2002 (Fox), an afternoon telecast. He also was SI’s Executive in Charge of Television for four TV specials that served as the companion to SI’s annual Swimsuit issue.

Prior to joining SI, Berke served as Director of Sports and Prime Time Sales Development for the ABC Television Network; was the primary publicist for such ABC Sports series as “Wide World of Sports,” “Monday Night Football,” and Howard Cosell’s “SportsBeat”; and was Associate Director of Information in the office of Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, where he was also the editor of the Official World Series Program in 1978 and 1979.  He has authored five books on sports and was the editor-in-chief of an award-winning sports encyclopedia for children.

A graduate of Indiana University, Berke has been an adjunct professor in Sports Communications at NYU and Manhattanville College and is on the Advisory Board for the Manhattanville graduate program in Sports Business Management. He also opines about his beloved Chicago White Sox on artofthepalehose.mlblogs.com.

 

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