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Steve Spignese
Steve Spignese
Steve Spignese has spent his career publicizing entertainment content and its creators.
Steve Spignese has spent his career publicizing entertainment content and its creators.
Steve has driven tune-in campaigns for a variety of networks, producers, and studios, including digital and traditional series for clients like Endemol Shine North America, MGM, NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. Television. He's promoted streaming series on Netflix, Amazon, other SVOD services, and also daytime syndicated series for Sony Pictures Television, Debmar-Mercury, and NBCUniversal. He has publicized cable programming for networks like Animal Planet and Destination America, and prime-time broadcast series like American Ninja Warrior on behalf of production company A. Smith & Co. He's consulted for the award-winning PBS series Independent Lens and its producer ITVS. He's comfortable at the intersection of entertainment and technology, having worked with the National Association of Broadcasters on the NAB Show, the largest convention in the world devoted to entertainment media and technology.
Throughout his career, Steve has been an active member of the Television Academy. He represented the Television Academy Foundation, the charitable arm of the Television Academy, for several years, and he served on the organization's Daytime Awards Committee. He served on the Public Relations Peer Group Executive Committee for four years prior to becoming PR Peer Group Governor in 2018.
Steve is currently on the Awards team at Amazon Studios. He started his career at entertainment public relations leader Rogers & Cowan where he represented a variety of high-profile actors, writers and producers before moving to online pioneer Yahoo!, and then on to various agencies in Los Angeles. A Massachusetts native, he studied at the University of Kent, in Canterbury, England, and at the University of Massachusetts.
updated 3.4.22
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Television Academy Governors Ann Leslie Uzdavinis and Steven Spignese attend the 73rd Emmy Awards Nominee Celebration honoring this year’s nominees for Outstanding Casting Directors and Executives at the Television Academy on Friday, September 10, 2021 in North Hollywood, California.
Television Academy Chairman and CEO Frank Scherma and Television Academy Governor Steven Spignese at the 2019 Directors Nominee Reception on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles, California.
Matthew Gardea, Hanna Bolte and Television Academy Governor Steven Spignese at the 2019 Executive Peer Groups Celebration on Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at NeueHouse Hollywood in Los Angeles, California.
Television Academy Governors Steven Spignese and Bryan Leder at the 2019 Art Directors & Set Decorators Nominee Reception on Thursday, August 29, 2019 at the Television Academy in North Hollywood, California.
Television Academy Secretary Sharon Lieblein, CSA, Television Academy Governor Greg Kupiec, Camila Martins, and Television Academy Governor Steven Spignese at the 2019 Cinematography/Lighting, Camera, and Technical Arts Nominee Reception at the Television Academy on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 in North Hollywood, California.
Television Academy Chairman and CEO Frank Scherma and Television Academy Governor Steven Spignese at the Commercials Nominee Reception, Saturday, August 24, 2019 at the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center, North Hollywood, California.
Television Academy Governor Steve Spignese, Kara Shelmire, and Kaitlin Kiernan at the Television Academy's Motion and Title Design Nominee Reception at Mr. C's in Los Angeles, California on Friday, September 7, 2018.
Television Academy Governors Scott Boyd, Jeff Calderon, Steven Spignese, and Susan Nessenbaum-Goldberg at the 2018 Art Directors and Set Decorators Nominee Reception at the Television Academy's Saban Media Center on Thursday, August 30, 2018 in North Hollywood, California.
Amanda Arcangel, Steve Spignese, Courtenay Palaski and Television Academy Governor Nicole Marostica attend The Television Academy's 2017 Executives Emmy Celebration at The Montage Hotel on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California.
