The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter (NATAS) announced Emmy-winning Phoenix Suns executive producer Bob Adlhoch, who is a long-time member of both NATAS’ local board of governors and executive committee as well as the chapter’s past-president and national past trustee, has been elected to a two-year term on the National Emmy® Awards Committee, which oversees the Daytime Emmys®, News/Documentary Emmys®, Sports Emmys® and Technology/Engineering Emmys®. In his role, Adlhoch will serve as the voice of NATAS’ regional chapters to the national governing body.
Now in his 19th season of producing Phoenix Suns broadcasts, Adlhoch has been part of the sports production community in Arizona since 1990. After graduating with honors from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism, he worked for five years as a freelance graphics operator and producer, before joining Cox Communications. Adlhoch spent six years producing and directing live sporting events—from Phoenix Suns broadcasts to the High School Football Game of the Week—as well as studio programs with Cox and was both a member of the team behind the channel launch of Cox 9 (now Cox 7) and was instrumental in the live Thursday night high school football broadcasts that have since become a programming staple for Cox.
The Phoenix Suns hired Adlhoch in 2001 as their television producer/director. He was promoted to executive producer in 2012, overseeing content for, producing and directing Suns game broadcasts on Fox Sports Arizona.
Adlhoch is the recipient of 17 Rocky Mountain Emmy® Awards for producing, directing and graphic design, and he was selected to the Phoenix Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 program in 2009.
NATAS is a professional service organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of television and the promotion of creative leadership for artistic, educational and technical achievements within the television industry. The Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter, formed in 1959, represents Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and El Centro, Calif.
