About
Fran Shea, former president of E! Entertainment Television and founder of HBOlab, is a currently EVP of Programming and Marketing at Game Show Network. She is also an instructor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Shea serves select clients as an executive coach with an emphasis on goal focused leadership and career success. With her decades of corporate and management experience, years of teaching and current involvement in the Brown University Executive Coaching Certification Program she is uniquely situated to offer performance and results driven leadership coaching for senior executives and creative leaders.
In addition to her years of experience in team management and corporate leadership roles she also possesses a broad range of experience in results driven television and digital programming with a key competency in content and audience development.
Shea serves select clients as an executive coach with an emphasis on goal focused leadership and career success. With her decades of corporate and management experience, years of teaching and current involvement in the Brown University Executive Coaching Certification Program she is uniquely situated to offer performance and results driven leadership coaching for senior executives and creative leaders.
In addition to her years of experience in team management and corporate leadership roles she also possesses a broad range of experience in results driven television and digital programming with a key competency in content and audience development.
Biography
Fran Shea is currently the EVP of Programming and Marketing for Game Show Network which includes oversight of 4 cable channels and 4 FAST channels including Game Show Network, Game Show Channel, Sony Movie Channel, Cine Sony, GetTV.
Shea has managed her own consulting business with clients including HBO, VH1, Hello! and Hola! TV and many others.
Shea is the founder of HBOlab (launched 5/07), a content driven, creative experiment within HBO. HBOlab explored a variety of business models using digital content to build and grow audiences. When brand advertisers beckoned Fran facilitated the sale of HBOlab to Break Media 4/09.
Fran is the former president of E! Entertainment Television (1999-2001). Under her leadership the highly successful cable channel, which is now available in over 90 million homes, reached record profitability and launched a second network (style.). In addition, Fran oversaw the international business and managed the online business (eonline) to continued revenue growth. Preceding her presidency she originated and developed the programming and on-air brand for E! Entertainment Television (1990-1999) over a nine year period as Senior Vice President of Programming. Managing a creative and technical staff of 700, she was responsible for the creative growth of the channel including the development and production of all shows (True Hollywood Story, Talk Soup, E! News Daily, The Howard Stern Show, branded awards show coverage, etc).
Fran spent a decade as a producer/executive at HBO. She won a producer Emmy Award in 1989. She is a graduate of SCSU with a BS in Journalism and has a Masters in Media Studies from The New School in New York (2013).
Fran Shea is currently working with select corporate and creative clients as an executive coach with a specialty in creative and executive success in goal driven leadership. Please contact Frans for a list of coaching companies and clients.
She is also a frequent speaker/teacher on the subjects of low-cost/high volume content development, audience growth, creative management, branding and custom content. She's created curriculum for her current classes at NYU in Content Marketing and Distribution and for semester length classes in audience development at UCLA Extension and lectured on programming and audience building at USC, Cal State Northridge, UCLA and other venues.
Please contact Fran if you are interested in booking her as a guest lecturer/instructor.