Brian Frons
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Brian Frons is an American television executive who holds a Master of Science degree in Communications from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the State University of New York at Fredonia.
The head of Disney-ABC Television Group, Alex Wallau, named Frons the president of the newly-created Daytime, Disney-ABC Television Group in May 2006. The promotion elevated Frons from his position as head of ABC Daytime, a position he has served in since August 2002.
In his capacity as president of ABC Daytime, Frons was responsible for the development, marketing, production and promotion of all ABC Daytime properties, which include All My Children, General Hospital, One Life To Live, and The View. Under his leadership, every daytime drama has hit new lows in terms of ratings (GH's series low was on 10/11/06; AMC reached a record low of 2,144,000 viewers on Friday, November 2, 2007; OLTL's was on Thursday , December 20, 2007 with 2,186,000 viewers), and Port Charles was canceled.
In his new position, Frons takes on the additional duties of overseeing the cable network, SOAPnet, and Buena Vista Productions, a production company with programs ranging from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper. In addition to developing, promoting and overseeing numerous series, Frons was also instrumental to the launch of The Soap Opera Digest Awards.
His wife is Jeanine Guarneri-Frons, an award-winning director for Santa Barbara. [1]
[edit] Roles
- Senior vice president (London-based SBS Broadcasting, S.A.)
- President, Creative Affairs (New World Entertainment)
- Vice president, Creative Affairs, NBC Productions
- Vice president of NBC Entertainment
- Director, Daytime Programming, CBS Entertainment
- As himself on an episode of AMC in late 2005
- Creative Consultant of AMC & OLTL (2004-present)
- Story Consultant of GH (2004-present)
- Head Writer (with Julie Hanan Carruthers) of AMC (mid- January 2008 - January 30, 2008)
