Scott Sassa

Scott M. Sassa is an American entertainment executive who has held a number of high-level executive positions in large entertainment companies. Scott is currently Chairman of MILK Makeup.

Early in his career, Sassa was vice president of New Business Development at Ohlmeyer Communications Co., which was headed by Don Ohlmeyer. He also served as vice president of network management for the Fox Broadcasting Company. Sassa was among the first people hired by Fox and he ran its operations and administration departments.

Sassa spent nine years at Turner Broadcasting System, finishing his tenure as president of Turner Entertainment Group and a member of the Turner Board of Directors and the TBS Executive Committee.

Sassa joined Turner Broadcasting in 1982, first as director of Sales promotion, then executive producer of Night Tracks in 1983 which led to him becoming vice president and general manager of the company’s Cable Music Channel in 1984. He began his career with Rogers & Cowan public relations agency.

Sassa is credited with building Turner’s entertainment cable channels into industry leaders, launching seven networks over a seven-year period – including 3 of the top 5 rated basic cable networks. From 1992 to 1996, he was responsible for all operations and programming for TBS Superstation, Turner Network Television, Cartoon Network, Turner Classic Movies and Turner’s international entertainment networks in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Sassa recruited Amy Pascal to start up Turner Pictures, a feature film production company that developed and produced You’ve Got Mail, Any Given Sunday and Gettysburg. Sassa was also responsible for Turner Home Video, Turner Licensing and Merchandising, Turner Publishing, Turner New Media, Turner Original Productions and Hanna-Barbera Cartoons Inc. Sassa was named Executive Vice President of Turner Network Television in 1988, where he was instrumental in the network’s launch, the largest at that time.

After Turner, Sassa was president and chief operating officer of Andrews Group, a unit of MacAndrews & Forbes Holding, and the Chief Executive Officer of Marvel Entertainment.

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