John A. Wentworth

John A. Wentworth, a television industry veteran, is an Entertainment Communications Consultant and Adjunct Professor. He serves as a Media Trainer for HBO Max, Disney+, 20th Television, ABC Studios, CBS Studios and others, having previously served as Executive Vice President, Communications, for CBS Television Distribution. In addition, Wentworth is an Adjunct Professor of Entertainment Marketing for Emerson College’s LA campus.

An industry veteran, over the years Wentworth has overseen the various corporate-level and consumer media relations efforts for Paramount Network Television, CBS Paramount Domestic Television, CBS Paramount International Distribution, King World Productions and the current entity, CBS Television Distribution. These combined divisions produce and/or distribute primetime and daytime programming for network, cable, premium television and first-run syndication, domestically and internationally. In addition, his purview included the communications efforts for CBS Home Entertainment and CBS Consumer Products, which includes managing all publicity efforts for the merchandising, licensing, events and activations for the Star Trek franchise’s 50th anniversary milestone.

Wentworth oversaw all publicity efforts for CTD’s 10 first-run syndicated shows: Dr. Phil, The Doctors, Rachael Ray, Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, Inside Edition, Judge Judy, Hot Bench, Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy!; as well as off-network series such as the CSI franchise (CBS), The Good Wife (CBS), NCIS (CBS), Penny Dreadful (Showtime) and Blue Bloods (CBS).

From 1993 to 1999, Wentworth served as Senior Vice President, then Executive Vice President, Media Relations and Marketing, for the Paramount Television Group, reporting to the Chairman of the Group. Prior to that he was Vice President, Advertising, Publicity and Promotion for Paramount Network Television, during which time he oversaw the ongoing publicity for such long-running hit series as Frasier, Cheers, Family Ties, Star Trek: The Next Generation, MacGyver and The Arsenio Hall Show. Wentworth first joined Paramount in 1983 as Manager of Advertising, Publicity and Promotion for Paramount Domestic Television.

Wentworth’s entertainment career also includes positions at Columbia Pictures and public relations firm Rogers & Cowan.

Born in Skowhegan, Maine and raised in the Caribbean, Wentworth graduated in 1981 from Emerson College in Boston, with a degree in Mass Communications. In 1995 he received the Alumni Achievement Award from Emerson’s Alumni Association. In 1999 he was awarded Emerson’s EVVY Award for Distinguished Alumni. In 2012, Wentworth was ranked as one of Business Insider’s “20 Most Powerful Publicists in Hollywood”. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Paley Center for Media, the Television Publicity Executives Committee (TPEC) and serves on Emerson College’s Board of Advisors. His philanthropic endeavors are numerous and include his 2005 appointment to the Board of Directors of The Alliance For Children’s Rights.