Toronto, September 26, 2011 – The Being Frank Show hosted by Frank D’Angelo is proud to announce the appointment of Jeff Burns as director of Talent Acquisitions. The Being Frank Show, now taping its second season starting in October is a hugely popular and entertaining, talk/variety, national television program which airs on Friday nights at 1:00 AM and broadcasts from CHCH TV in Ontario, Metro 14 in Montreal and daily on Rogers on Demand.

Jeff Burns is a 30 year veteran of the music and entertainment business and he will now be in charge of booking special guests and talent appearances for the show.

Jeff Burns has the enviable reputation of having the best A&R track record of any Canadian music executive. In his 30 years in the industry, artists he has signed have gone on to sell in excess of 30 million records. For the most part these signings have been during his tenures with major record labels. Today, Burns is on the look out to licence Canadian music masters for a pair of independent labels he controls, with the full backing of Universal’s mighty distribution arms, and make gold and platinum successes for himself and artists aligned with his dual Prism Music and Blue Sapphire Music labels.

“Jeff has a knack of spotting great talent and we’re proud to have him join the Being Frank Show team, and I know he’ll bring an exciting array of guests that will add entertainment value to the program” says host Frank D’Angelo.

The Being Frank Show has a weekly viewership of over 300,000 nationally in Canada (including Quebec), as well as huge popularity in the U.S. border markets, including Seattle, Detroit, Minneapolis, Buffalo, Rochester and cities in Vermont, North Dakota, Wyoming, etc. High profile guests who have appeared on the show include, Al Pacino, Tony Bennett, Graham Greene, William Fichtner, Kim Coates, Estella Warren, Bai Ling, Raggae Rapper Snow, singer Danny Fernandes, and more, clips available at – www.beingfrank.ca ). The Being Frank Show is also available daily on Rogers on Demand (Channel 100) and regularly generates between 500,000 to 1,000,000 “hits” on web-related broadcast sources such as “YouTube”.

The Being Frank Show is broadcast on the following TV stations across Canada:
Newfoundland – Channel 55
New Brunswick – Channel 121
Nova Scotia – Channel 21
Quebec City – Channel 16
Montreal – CJNT TV Channel 14
Ontario – Channel 11
Winnipeg – Channel 261
Regina – Channel 149
Shaw Direct Satellite – Channel 345 and 41
Bell TV Channel - 218 Bell
Rogers Digital - Channel 122
Rogers on demand - Channel 100

For more information on The Being Frank Show visit: www.beingfrank.ca

To arrange a guest appearance on the Being Frank Show please contact:
Jeff Burns by e-mail at jeffburns@beingfrank.ca or by phone at 905-830-0151