Warner Bros. International Television Production’s Andr\u00e9 Renaud and All3Media International’s Nick Smith have been elected as co-chairs of FRAPA, the Format Recognition and Protection Association.<\/p>\n
Renaud is group VP of finished and format sales at Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP), a post he has held since last year, following positions at BBC Studios and ITV Studios. Smith is All3Media International\u2019s executive VP of formats and licensing, as well as a visiting professor of TV formats at the University of Sunderland and a founding member of RX Global\u2019s diversity advisory.<\/p>\n
Richard Ager, Fremantle\u2019s executive VP for legal and business affairs, global entertainment, has been tapped as FRAPA’s treasurer.<\/p>\n
\u201cAndr\u00e9 and I are committed to taking FRAPA to the next level by making it even more relevant and responsive to the needs of our members,” Smith said. “And those needs are evolving at warp speed thanks to the threat\u2014or perhaps promise\u2014of AI, the shift to streaming, digital and short-form, market oversaturation and rising production costs. We see our task as helping to provide clarity at an inflexion point for our industry, while offering our members the hands-on support they need to generate and leverage formattable ideas that will deliver for us all\u2014creatively, commercially and culturally.\u201d<\/p>\n
Renaud noted: FRAPA\u2019s mission remains as vital today as it was when it was founded 25 years ago: to support the creativity that powers our industry and ensure that it\u2019s respected by all. We are grateful to FRAPA\u2019s leadership and the Advisory Board for expanding FRAPA\u2019s mission, ambition and purpose. As we look ahead, we want to focus on growing our global community of like-minded colleagues, and really bring this group closer together to share, advise, and celebrate our collective successes, whether it be from Sweden to South Korea, or Brazil to Botswana. I\u2019m excited to start working with Nick and the Management and Advisory Boards to drive this collective vision forward, starting at our FRAPA summit at MIPCOM.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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