The Oddities of Travel on Television
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 10.06.05 | 11:18 AM ET
San Antonio Current looks at travel programming on TV—from Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” to a show about 20-something travelers called “5 Takes”—and finds “new highs and lows.” Writes Elaine Wolff: “The wilderness may be largely settled in the 21st century, but cable and satellite television is a vast territory populated by hungry media executives clamoring for programming to which ad revenue can be tethered, and specialty channels such as Travel face a bigger challenge than their polygamous brethren: How do you put a fresh face on 24 hours worth of globetrotting? The answer seems to be leave no demographic or formula unturned.”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
