Lewers named SVP, programming, at Discovery

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Scott Lewers has been named Discovery Channel’s senior vice president of programming, overseeing program strategy for the flagship network and reporting to Eileen O’Neill, group president of Discovery and TLC Networks.Prior to Discovery, Lewers served as vice president of strategic multiplatform program planning and acquisitions at NBCUniversal’s Oxygen Media. Lewers began at Oxygen as director of programming, scheduling and planning.

Before coming to Oxygen, Lewers was at Lifetime Entertainment, serving as manager of programming, scheduling and acquisitions. He started at Lifetime as manager of programming research.

Prior to that, Lewers was senior analyst of primary research and development at Nielsen Media Research working with broadcast syndication clients.

Lewers received his bachelor’s of science degree in economics and business administration from Wagner College in Staten Island, New York.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.