Marsha Bemko

Bemko in 2013

Marsha Bemkois an American television producer. She is theexecutive producerof thePBSseriesAntiques Roadshow.In addition toAntiques Roadshow,Bemko is also executive producer for PBS's antiques seriesMarket Warriors.

Biography

Bemko's television career spans 30 years. Prior to joiningRoadshowas a senior producer in 1999, Bemko worked on a variety ofpublic affairsprograms for PBS. She wasWGBH'scoordinating producer for national programming and the series producer forCulture Shock(1999), a historical series aboutcensorshipin the arts andfreedom of expression.Bemko served as coordinating producer forDiscovering Women(1995), a series about six women scientists. She worked in a variety of production capacities for the award-winningFrontlinepublic affairs series beginning in 1982.

Bemko's professional background also includes stints as director ofmarketingfor the Boston Marketing Services Group and as areporterfor the Springfield Newspapers.

In addition to her role as executive producer ofAntiques Roadshow,Bemko is a sought-after lecturer, appearing across the country at the invitation of community organizations, colleges, business groups, and public television stations, including WGBH where she has mentored aspiring producers as part of the CPB/WGBH Producers Workshop. Bemko also writes for theAntiques Roadshow Insider,a WGBH-licensed newsletter, and she has served on the Opening Night Committee of the Winter Antiques Show.

Bemko is a 1977 graduate ofWestfield State Collegeand serves on the Westfield State College Foundation Board of Directors.

Works

• Antiques Roadshow Behind the Scenes,Simon and Schuster, 2009,ISBN978-1-4391-0330-2

External links

• Antiques Roadshow | PBS
• Marsha BemkoatIMDb
• 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