hi Mark Wahlberg host of Antiques Roadshow coming to you from Des Moines Iowa
don't miss all the fun and excitement as we dig up treasure right in your
backyard with nearly 11 million viewers tuning in each week
Antiques Roadshow is the top-rated program on PBS
often described as an adventure that is part history lesson and part treasure
hunt the American version of the BBC program that shares the same name is in
its 15th season we are number one in prime time we have about 10 million
viewers a week which is a lot of people and it's a problem over whether it's PBS
or another network that's a lot of you is especially in this spread out media
landscape and given the forces across the pond the BBC licence the show from
our taping the 33rd season I imagine that we've got a long life ahead of us
and I will retire from this show and not the other way around
marcia benkoe quite literally wrote the book on Antiques Roadshow and 47 years
has been the executive producer for the program produced by WGBH out of Boston
Antiques Roadshow as the name implies is a show from the road ahead like five
hundred or thousand album and I brought it to find out what it's worth every
year a handful of cities are chosen to host the show where a day's worth of
taping in each city combines to yield a season's worth of programs in 2010
twenty new episodes were taped in six cities from San Diego on the west coast
to washington DCI on the east coast and somewhere in the middle though more in
Iowa
first though we're producing two things we produce an event and for the bulk of
the people coming here tomorrow we provide a public service and they're not
going to be taped and it is not going to obtain them any well we're here to give
you some information we're proud of that we also make a television show and we're
gonna make 22 episodes of television this year we want to do that but now
that I was going to have to do more in addition of Antiques Roadshow for its
2011 season was taped August 7th in 2010 but setting up for the taping began
early August 6 18,000 square feet of space is required for the production of
the program so while Antiques Roadshow is always looking for new cities to
visit not all cities have the capability to host the program according to marcia
ban ko takes an army to produce the show while the show has a staff of fourteen
who work year-round on the program
45 people traveling to Boston to be on location for any show taping hired
locally are an additional 12 to 15 production people who run camera floor
director and assistant lighting and rigging
banners are roughly the show also requires more than 100 volunteers who
have the job of keeping things moving it is it's not just kind of fun to work on
is a show that a lot of fun to work on and I have yet to ever be bored by
Antiques Roadshow first of all there's an enormous amount of work we make it
look easy but there's a lot of work involved in every city every show we
make I learned something and I'm still learning one of the things that ban ko
has learned over the years is the need to limit the number of people that will
have items appraised during the one day taping in turmoil 19,000 192 people
applied for tickets to the show but only three thousand pairs of tickets were
awarded those receiving tickets were selected through a random drawing
applications for tickets are restricted to one pair per household
the tickets are free with no tickets given out at the door
each ticket holders allowed only two items to bring for appraisal and is told
what time to arrive
the goal is to avoid bottlenecks but still the lines are long while the first
line might seem like its primary purpose is to prepare you for waiting in lines
it's actually where you find out in which of the categories the two items
you brought along
a decorative piece but it's made up of a real trial practice child that's why it
has the option and this is my carousel horse but I don't know who the carvers
and I'm hoping to get something about it so I think it's German with I'm not sure
I want star women bring a whole bedrooms including the mattress got lesser but
people will bring I like to quote one of our experts are gonna steal a line from
him
people bring their two most precious objects that if their house on fire
after they say their family
the two things they would bring are those so even though they're not worth a
lot of money they are dear to them
objects that are dear to them so we'll see a lot of albums and hoping a lot of
one kind one of a kind things that people can so easily search on the
internet as we're here to provide something that you can't look at me so
they held it in their team
strap around their home
I have a picture of my grandfather and here
once your categories are decided you weren't directed to another line to
which you wait to see one of the 75 to 80 appraisers were there for the taping
of the show each is an expert in their field and can either tell you something
that you don't know about the item you've brought know how to find that
information out quickly in many ways they're treated by fans of Antiques
Roadshow like rock stars
in each city the show travels to an additional allotment of tickets are
distributed to the local PBS station for fundraising offense people who purchase
those tickets in Iowa we're not only guaranteed entrance to the taping but
were also invited to a meet and greet where they could rub elbows with their
favorite appraisers they get very excited and it's love it's amazing it's
love you can feel it I get hugs it's kind of fun I was not a young person
when I started doing this fifteen years ago when we out on another 15 years
never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be a senior citizen on national TV
but I will go as long as as as I can stand up the table and see the glass yes
you know every Saturday is kinda like Christmas morning
you know what you can see and I've heard so many people say oh well I didn't know
what to bring and they just grab something at the last minute and you
know I always tell me if it was me I would think about it and I would bring
the thing that I was most curious about and it might not be something that was
super valuable but it maybe it's something that the team lead role
sentimental about what they want to have more information and I have actually had
people come to the table and I tell them well this is probably from the nineteen
twenties people would buy this kind of stuff and department stores or whatever
and at the end they didn't even want me to tell them the bay they didn't care so
yes absolutely
in their minds it is priceless in terms of what we see it's a lot easier to
carry the cup and saucer the piano so we tend to see a disproportionate number of
things pottery porcelain table but be that as it may some great things come in
small packages and I've seen some marvelous and special things over the
years ahead a little piece of very sticky old white fabric medical pay for
the longest time I just took it off a few years ago and it had five cents
written on it with a pencil it's a sweet piece of in Brickell we've done what we
see is that is the real deal I mean they have really the producers have gotten so
good at filtering out people who pretend they don't know what they have and
children objects that don't have sufficient value or interest to be on
the show that what you see on television
999 times that of a thousand is honest and in terms of value at auction today
conservatively estimated for between 25 and 30 $500
probably more like 3000 to 4000 wonderful my mom would be thrilled they
think that maybe only 500 pieces were made while he was alive wow the 10,000
to 12,000 items brought to each city on the Antiques Roadshow tour only eighty
to 90 items are selected for possible inclusion in an upcoming episode if an
appraiser thinks that an item is unique enough for the story behind the item is
of interest here she will contact a picker the picker first guess the pitch
from the appraiser as to why an item should be taped the picture then
interviews the person who brought the item one of the three pickers is marcia
ban ko
anybody who's coming to the show brings something you're truly curious about
don't try to impress us we are jaded we've seen it all we've seen very
variable things I have turned down $200,000 objects with the guests came
for show-and-tell knew exactly what they had we here to discover America hidden
treasures the criteria for an item to be selected are not easily met
statistically less than one percent of the items scene will be taped for
possible inclusion in an upcoming episode year ago take one in 32 hi Mark
Wahlberg and you want to host Antiques Roadshow is Mark Wahlberg he has been
with the show since 2005 and is the fourth person to host the program when I
first got this job I stop by the little coffee shop I always stop by every
morning on the way after I drop my kids off to school and lady says to me hey
Mark how's it going as a great just what's new I said hey I got a new shows
that what I'm gonna host Antiques Roadshow on PBS and as soon as I say
three people in the place around ago
Antiques Roadshow and I go yes then they don't say a word to me and they start
talking about the show so I realize that point that I was sort of inheriting you
know something that america feels they own
own and so I'm very grateful
while Mark Wahlberg is the only professional talent on Antiques Roadshow
he's not the programs they are the real stars of the program are the empty and
the stories behind them that one there I got I think in 65 or 66 and I wonder
maybe they when they sign of the thought there was signed for Frank Howard not
looking for you to be show is all about unraveling the mystery and the thrill of
discovery
Ministry Center reality show this is a reality show because it's a non scripted
program dealing with real people real items and truthfully the vetting process
of who ends up on camera who doesn't is really about funny people who are being
authentic in other words of you know too much about your item and we can tell you
anything you don't know it's wonderful you gain that knowledge but not really
something we're putting on the air so while we like to find those items that
are very valuable or they can vary not valuable the truth is it's the people in
the stories connected the items that's as important as the value we might
rather have a three thousand dollar item with a great story told by a great
person and a $20,000 item by somebody knows everything about it and are
appraised just nodding and smiling and as a retail value I would have no
problem saying it was worth between four and six thousand dollars wow that's
quite a bit it is it is for something that's at around in the house for years
and years and years the historical integrity of any items selected to be
shared on television is checked prior to taking then checked again and again and
again before any tape segment airs on television it's
one of the need is folk art things I've ever seen I'm really glad you brought it
in a very much we're gonna be in on a show and the integrity of this show that
keeps us on public broadcasting and keeps the audience trusting us is
invaluable and once broken very hard to reach to repair the break that trust in
the morn the four top appraised items for Antiques Roadshow is 2011 season
were an extremely rare 1623 Shakespeare First Folio valued at $35 $50,000 the
name of the figures ship aris bronze and ivory sculpture how you get ready to
$60,000 thanks for bringing a circa 1925 round European cut diamond and platinum
ring valued at sixteen to $80,000 in another ship Harris that you just I'm
bronze and marble valued at $100,000
I am beyond shocked
I had
thank you
of the eighty to 90 items selected to be taped less than sixty will be shared
with a television audience other items that are quite ready for prime time on
video tape and shared over the show's website and everyone that attends an
event is invited to share what they learned about the items they brought at
the feet left boot Antiques Roadshow is sometimes described as a game show where
everybody has a prize to begin with my sure Ben Cohen the staff of Antiques
Roadshow hope they can tell those who attend an event what their prices were
but over the 15 seasons the show has been on the air
she's found out that most people already know that what they've brought in his
priceless most people after they get their appraisals whether it's worth $100
or $100,000 don't sell or do anything with it they keep it