Sandy Grushow is the former chairman of the Fox Television Entertainment Group and former chief creative officer of MediaLink, a multimedia advisory firm that provides counsel to clients in the marketing, media, entertainment, and technology industries.
10 Facts About Sandy Grushow
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Sandy Grushow spent nearly 25 years at the Fox Entertainment Group, where he helped to create the Fox Broadcasting Company as it appears today.
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Sandy Grushow began his career in the feature film marketing department of 20th Century Fox, overseeing creative campaigns for movies such as Big, Die Hard and Broadcast News.
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In 1988, Sandy Grushow was asked by then chairman Barry Diller to invigorate Fox's new broadcast TV network as he had the motion picture studio.
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Sandy Grushow built the network's advertising and promotions department from the ground up between 1988 and 1990, launching signature FOX hits The Simpsons, In Living Color, COPS and 90210.
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In 1992, at the age of 32, Sandy Grushow assumed the presidency of the Fox Entertainment Group entire network division, making him the youngest executive to ever hold the title of network president.
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In that leadership role, Sandy Grushow oversaw the development and launch of The X-Files, Melrose Place, Party of Five, Living Single and MADtv while expanding the network from four to seven nights of primetime programming.
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In 1999, Sandy Grushow was tapped by Rupert Murdoch and Peter Chernin to return to the network he helped build.
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At the helm of Filmaka, an online community of more than 20,000 writers and directors spread across over 150 countries creating digital shorts and branded entertainment, Sandy Grushow fostered some of the earliest relationships between cutting edge digital creatives and blue-chip marketers such as DirecTV and Ford.
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In 2010, Sandy Grushow joined MediaLink as Chief Content Officer, counseling clients in the marketing, media, entertainment, and technology industries.