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Curious Travelers Television

A daily Travel, Arts and Entertainment podcast
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Curious Travelers Television

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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 production of CNI Cinema started in February 2002. Prior to that we were only producing feature films. We prod
Video Link to TrailerFestival Traveler Melody Bates with friend outside Blood Manor in the pilot episode of New York Halloween for the new series "One Hundred Festivals To Go Before You Go"To Find out more about the series and pilot production
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 all television manufacturers to equip their products, except those smaller than 13 inches, with digital t
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 extremely smart production decision. The series breaks new ground in integrating written and video blog
In travel shows everything depends upon the presenter, in fact presenters can be more important then even the script. If you are fortunate enough to find a really great one, someone that the audience will tune in to wach and travel with time an
If we trace the history of the modern travel program the origns go directly to Lowell Thomas, the man who invented the term travelogue. Below is his biography from the wikipedia encyclopedia:He was born in Woodington, Ohio, in Darke County, the
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 presenters, operate the camera, direct, take sound, write scripts and project proposals, work in the sale
I've often wondered why networks pay so much less for acquisitions than commissions?It would seem that if you produced a program they wanted to buy and it fit into their programming needs they would pay at least as much as if it was a program
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 presenters, music and they spend their budget wisely; they haven't yielded to some of the cost cutting measur
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 total of three people:- Rick Steves - The presenter- A cameraman - usually a local, so he doesn't have to
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 the new world record for visiting 500 countries and territories is 4 years, 3 months, 15 days. He even
The History of Globe Trekker/Pilot Guides, according to Curious Travelers (and correct me if I am wrong, some information is insider info, most is second hand and from research)If the grandfather of all travel programs was Lowell Thomas, the h
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 providers of travel programming in the US. You see it also on the PBS travel programmers, although to a less
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. The truth is that it usually takes a set amount of time; unless you have several production teams in th
OK. So there are two different audiences for travel programs.One audience, the majority of the viewers, the 25-65 demographic does not travel, but they are intrigued by travel.. For them the more exotic the travel location the more interesting
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 of why people watch travel programming and why some travel programs do better in the rating than others.Fi
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 for a moment. Prior to producing my first television program on spec (ie I spent my own money, something
OK. So the first program 'The Best of Buenos Aires" is finished for acquisition and I send it off to the Travel Channel acquisition department.It usually takes two months for a network such as the Travel Channel to get back to you. When they
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 Screen Summit for the first time, the Travel Channel had several of these types of programs, the most w
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