- Fran Mires
Fran Mires is a bilingual television executive producer credited with the creation and launch of dozens of television shows in both English and Spanish. She is a graduate of
San Francisco State University and earned her master's degree in journalism from theMedill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.A native of California and based in Florida, Mires is originally credited with the launch of Spanish language network
Telemundo 's highly rated, flagship talk show "Ocurrió Así " in 1990, hosted byEnrique Gratas and later byPedro Sevcec . The show, the first of its kind in the Spanish language market was on the air for 11 years. Other shows by Fran Mires during her 10 years at Telemundo: "La Buena Vida" (The Good Life) hosted by formerMiss Universe Cecilia Bolocco .Mires has conceived and launched dozens of shows in multiple formats for clients like
NBC Daytime , MGM Latin America, HGTV,United Family Communications , and Hearst-Argyle.She just completed a run with Liz Murdoch and Debbie Mason, producing a game show for
GSN called "Games Fever" for the US audience.As a consultant, Fran helped launch "C News" in
Trinidad and is currently launching a 3-hour prime time show in Arabic. [JB Diederich, 2008]References
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