Ken Ackerman is an American Broadcast Journalist, in Portland, Oregon. Born in Dover, New Jersey, 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 as a fixture on Portland television beginning as a sports anchor/reporter on the NBC affiliate KGW. In 2003 he would journey across town to Fox affiliate KPTV, where Ken would go on to earn four NW emmy nominations and