Frances Page
(Executive Producer)
Frances Page, principal, strategy and business affairs at MAGNA Global Entertainment, oversees the creation and production of original television programming that is funded by and serves the needs of Interpublic’s clients. Projects include the award-winning JOHNSON & JOHNSON SPOTLIGHT PRESENTATION® film series on TNT, the critically acclaimed The Restaurant and the new unscripted drama Blow Out. Page was also recently named as one of Ad Age’s 2004 Women to Watch.
Prior to joining MAGNA Global Entertainment, Page was vice president, group supervisor for the Coca-Cola account at Universal McCann, where she handled such branded entertainment initiatives as American Idol and the animated Christmas special Santa Baby on Fox.
Page began her career in media planning and buying at BBDO Advertising. After 10 years working with such clients as Pepsi, Apple, Lever Bros, Campbell Soup and GE, including work on GE Theater, an initiative that resurrected GE’s client-furnished programming, Page left BBDO as vice president, associate media director to become a freelance writer. Her projects included RER Entertainment’s nationally syndicated TV vignette series Portrait of a Teacher, sponsored by Campbell Soup.
Later joining WYOU-TV22, a CBS affiliate in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pa., Page worked as an account executive for eight years, developing, writing and producing local client-branded, community initiatives.
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