Ken Ackerman

Ken Ackerman is a television news anchor and reporter in Portland, Oregon. Ken attended High School in Olympia, WA and would eventually settle in the Pacific Northwest. Upon graduation in 1983 from the University of Southern California with a bachelor's degree in Sports Broadcast Journalism, Ken would begin his television career in California and then North Carolina where Ken was awarded several Associated Press awards with WITN-TV and WXII-TV in Winston Salem. Ken made his way back to the Northwest in 1989 where he would spend the rest of his career becoming a fixture on Portland television. Ken would spend two years as a sports anchor/reporter on the NBC affiliate KGW. In 2003 he would journey across town to KPTV, where Ken would go on to earn four NW emmy nominations and an RTNDA national news directors honor as a feature reporter. In 1996 Ken was chosen to become the first host of the FOX morning show "Good Day Oregon".^[1] In 2003, ABC affiliate KATU hired Ken to host its' morning show AM Northwest. Ackerman was also hired by Comcast and CNN Headline News., interviewing state political and business leaders. In 2011, Ken became the lead anchor on KRCW's "Portland's Morning News", which aired as part of the nationally broadcast Eye Opener morning program.^[2] Ken has since retired and now, with his wife and son, reside in Lake Oswego, OR where they co-own a high-end furniture consignment showroom called Oswego Trading Company.

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