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Curious Travelers Television
A televison production company specializing in travel programs for cable television networks.
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19 episodesReview: Take Five Europe on Discovery Travel Channel Breaks New Ground!
Take Five Europe was the first program I believe that was greenlighted by the new General Manager of the Discovery Travel Channel. It is an...
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Lowell Thomas, The Man Who Invented The Travel Program
If we trace the history of the modern travel program the origns go directly to Lowell Thomas, the man who invented the term travelogue. Belo...
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Rick Steves' Backdoor to Europe - The Economics of a Travel Series
Rick Steves has to hold the record of creating the most economical travel shows. For his thirteen episode half hour series: His crew is a to...
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Why All Travel Shows Should Shoot in Hi-Definition?
In five years digital TV will be the standard worldwide. Already it is the standard in Japan. In the united States the FCC mandate requires...
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Globe Trekker - The Format, Fixed In Time
Globe Trekker is one of the best travel program out there. It's the only truly international travel program. It's got some of the best prese...
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The History of Globe Trekker: Mother of all Modern Travel Programs
The History of Globe Trekker/Pilot Guides, according to Curious Travelers (and correct me if I am wrong, some information is insider info, m...
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MostTraveledMan.com & and where to shoot?
There is a site MostTraveledMan.com, of a a dot.com millionaire, who has spent the few years traveling and traveling and traveling. He holds...
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How Long Does it Take to Produce a One Hour Travel Program?
People often ask me how long does it take to produce a one hour travel program? I often joke that it takes as long as the size of the budget...
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Acquisition vs. Commission
I've often wondered why networks pay so much less for acquisitions than commissions? It would seem that if you produced a program they wante...
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The New Direction in Travel Programming
There is a new direction in travel programming. You see it on the Discovery Travel Channel and on the Fine Living Network, the two main prov...
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Video on Demand- Travel Programmers have it both ways?
OK. So there are two different audiences for travel programs. One audience, the majority of the viewers, the 25-65 demographic does not trav...
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The Travel TV Programmer's Dilemma
The Discovery Travel Channel has shifted their programming criteria and I'll explain why (or why I think why?). Really it goes to the root o...
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My Reality Check at the Travel Channel
Looking back at it and knowing what I know now it makes perfect sense why the Travel Channel didn't acquire my first program. Let me digress...
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'The Best of Buenos Aires" - Continued
OK. So the first program 'The Best of Buenos Aires" is finished for acquisition and I send it off to the Travel Channel acquisition departme...
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How we got started - "The Best of Buenos Aires" - continued
The second type of Travel program that the Travel Channel produces are hosted programs. At the time - back in 2002 when I attended the Real...
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How we got started - "The Best of Buenos Aires"
Let start at the beginning, our first travel program "The Best of Buenos Aires". How we got started. I think I can say that the travel produ...
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Taking On Interns
For the past few months I've been interviewing hundreds of job applicants to work on our travel programs. I've seen people who want to be pr...
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Casting for the Presenter
In travel shows everything depends upon the presenter, in fact presenters can be more important then even the script. If you are fortunate e...
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