Scott Lewers ’97

Scott Lewers ’97

Successful television executive and Emmy award winner

Scott Lewers

Scott Lewers '97

Scott Lewers ’97, a Wagner College business administration graduate is senior vice president for programming at Discovery Channel. As associate producer of the “Red Bull Stratos: Space Jump” for YouTube, Lewers earned a 2013 Emmy award for Outstanding New Approaches Sports Event Coverage, presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The Red Bull Stratos mission was the famous record-breaking space jump by Felix Baumgartner from a capsule suspended at the outer edge of Earth’s atmosphere beneath a weather balloon.

Lewers joined the Discovery Channel in 2012 and leads program strategy for the flagship network, coordinating across all departments to create and conceptualize series, specials, franchises and initiatives for domestic telecast while fully leveraging those for all business opportunities.

Prior to Discovery, Lewers served as Vice President of Strategic Multi-Platform Program Planning & Acquisitions at Oxygen Media/NBCU where he directed strategy, maintaining and executing the overall programming direction for the network across all platforms. Lewers began at Oxygen as Director of Programming, Scheduling and Planning, where he oversaw the program planning and scheduling teams.

Previous to Oxygen, Lewers served as Manager of Programming, Scheduling & Acquisitions at Lifetime Entertainment, where he helped guide strategic program planning and scheduling for all Lifetime Networks, including Lifetime, Lifetime Movie Network & Lifetime Real Women. He began at Lifetime as Manager of Programming Research, charged with analysis of audience and focus group studies.