Burt Wolf - Broadcasting

Broadcasting

Since 1982, Burt Wolf has produced over 4,000 segments for Cable News Network (CNN), 800 segments for ABC (the American Broadcasting Company), 125 half-hour programs for the travel division of The Discovery Channel, and 350 half hours for Public Broadcasting. The New York Times described his programs as “the best food, travel, and cultural history shows on television.” He was the first recipient of the James Beard Foundation Award for “Best Television Food Journalism,” and has been nominated for two Cable Ace Awards and a national Emmy in connection with cultural history. His reports have won awards in the United States, Europe and Asia. They are videotaped entirely on-location throughout the world.

His cultural history programs have included: The History and Future of Shopping; a twenty-part series on Sacred Pilgrimage Sites; and a five-part series on the History of Immigration to the United States.

Burt is presently in production with his ongoing series entitled "Travels & Traditions". Shot entirely on-location, this series travels throughout the world looking at the history, culture, customs, foods, and festivals that give a particular place its unique character.

He is also in production with a series for public television titled ARTCOPS. These half-hour programs address the fact that over 6 billion dollars of art, jewelry and antiques are stolen each year. The programs describe which objects have been stolen, why they are valuable from a historical and cultural viewpoint, how the theft took place and what the public can do to help recover the items. A central theme is the importance of these articles to the world’s cultural history.

Burt’s programs are broadcast on Public Television to 90% of the television homes in the United States, then translated into Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Mandarin and Korean and syndicated to an international audience of over 100 million.