Ken Solomon

Ken Solomon serves as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Tennis Channel. He is Chairman of Cable Television Network, Ovation TV. He was a key architect in the August 2006 acquisition of the network by a group of private investors led by Hubbard Media Group and including Arcadia Investment Partners, of which he is a partner, Corporate Partners II, Perry Capital and The Weinstein Company. He was instrumental in helping to develop the network's business plan and its new program and branding direction, and in securing the investor funding and recruiting the executive team currently operating the network as it prepares for a re-launch on June 20, 2007. First launched in 1997, Ovation TV is focused on entertaining, inspiring and engaging the artist in all of us. The 24-hour channel is the only television network devoted exclusively to art, personal creativity and making the arts more accessible to viewers in their daily lives. The network showcases the world's greatest artists in theater, dance, opera, literature, film, visual and fine art, music, popular arts, design, photography and architecture. Ovation TV reaches nearly 15 million subscribers including a national audience via carriage on DIRECTV. He is also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Tennis Channel, the only 24-hour, television-based multimedia destination dedicated to tennis and the lifestyle that surrounds it. In this position, he leads the continued growth of the channel, utilizing more than 20 years of cable, new media, TV production, distribution and advertising experience. This includes capitalizing on the channel's unique cable-industry value proposition as both a live sports and lifestyle entity, and further developing the network's position as a tennis lifestyle brand. In the past two years under Solomon's guidance The Tennis Channel has expanded dramatically across-the-board: rapid distribution growth has quintupled its reach to 20 million homes