Marsha Bemko is the executive producer

Executive producer

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 of seven-time Emmy Award

Emmy Award

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-nominated PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

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 series Antiques Roadshow

Antiques Roadshow

Antiques Roadshow is a British television show in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom to appraise antiques brought in by local people. It has been running since 1979...

.

Biography

Prior to joining Roadshow as a senior producer in 1999, Bemko worked on a variety of public affairs

Public affairs (broadcasting)

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 programs for PBS. She was WGBH's

WGBH-TV

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 coordinating producer for national programming and the series producer for Culture Shock (1999), a historical series about censorship

Censorship

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 in the arts and freedom of expression. Bemko served as coordinating producer for Discovering Women (1995), a series about six women scientists. She worked in a variety of production capacities for the award-winning Frontline public affairs series beginning in 1982.

Bemko's professional background also includes stints as director of marketing

Marketing

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 for the Boston Marketing Services Group and as a reporter for the Springfield Newspapers.

Bemko is a 1977 graduate of Westfield State College

Westfield State College

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and serves on the Westfield State College Foundation Board of Directors.

Works

• Antiques Roadshow Behind the Scenes, Simon and Schuster, 2009, ISBN 9781439103302

External links

• http://www.pbs.org/antiques
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1135313/
• Wes Cowan helps Antiques Roadshow's Marsha Bemko Appraise Antiques on CBS's Early Show
• "An Interview with Antiques Roadshow Executive Producer Marsha Bemko", Dave Margulius and Ben Marks, Collectors Weekly, December 16th, 2009
• Marsha Bemko from Antiques Roadshow Answers Your Questions