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 possesses a broad range of experience in television / digital programming and content and audience development.
She 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 is a frequent speaker/teacher on the subjects of low-cost/high volume content development, audience growth (programming), creative management, branding and custom content. She's created curriculum 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.
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 is a frequent speaker/teacher on the subjects of low-cost/high volume content development, audience growth (programming), creative management, branding and custom content. She's created curriculum 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.