Howard Baldwin

Owner

Howard Baldwin began his career in professional hockey. In 1971, at 28 years old, after working for the Philadelphia Flyers, Baldwin struck out on his own, founded and ran the New England Whalers in the WHA, and became one of major league sports’ youngest executives. Five years later, he was president of the league.

In 1979, Mr. Baldwin guided the WHA into a historic merger with the National Hockey League and his team became the Hartford Whalers of the NHL. Mr. Baldwin ran the Hartford Whalers for 18 years and sold them in 1988 for the largest amount of money ever paid for an NHL team to that date. Recognizing a void in regional sports programming in the northeast, Mr. Baldwin formed PRISM New England Cable TV (subsequently Sports Channel). Subsequently, Baldwin put together the deal for the San Jose Sharks and briefly owned the Minnesota North Stars.

In the early ’90s, Baldwin owned the Pittsburgh Penguins and operated them for 8 years – during which two Stanley Cups were won. As part of the Penguins deal, Baldwin was the first US executive to get into a team partnership with Russia – co-owning the famous CCCP Red Army team in Moscow for 3 years.

1984- 2000, Mr. Baldwin and his wife Karen, formed and ran Baldwin/Cohen Productions with partner Richard Cohen, producing a variety of films such as SUDDEN DEATH, GIDEON, RESURRECTION, and MYSTERY, ALASKA. Mr. Baldwin was President of Crusader Entertainment and partnered with his wife and Philip Anschutz from 2000 to 2004.

While at Crusader, Mr. Baldwin developed and produced the Academy Award-nominated and winning film, RAY for Universal, Paramount action-adventure film SAHARA, MGM’s SWIMMING UPSTREAM, DANNY DECKCHAIR for Lion’s Gate Entertainment,  and SOUND OF THUNDER for Warners and THE GAME OF THEIR LIVES for IFC.

Mr. Baldwin is currently partnered with his wife Karen in KEMB and they oversee the development, packaging, and production of film and television projects.