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Rudy Maxa
Today, Maxa hosts the #1 weekend travel/talk radio show in the United States. “Rudy Maxa’s World,” the radio show, and his Monday-Friday one-minute travel commentary have a weekly audience reach of approximately 1.4 million upscale leisure & business travelers via 230+ radio stations, TuneIn.com, active social media platforms, online streaming and more.
His “Marketplace” appearances led to the creation of a one-hour, weekend radio magazine show, “The Savvy Traveler,” that Maxa co-created and hosted from its inception in 1997 until the summer of 2001.
Maxa also hosts a series of public television shows, also called Rudy Maxa’s World, that are broadcast throughout North America on local PBS stations as well as in the United Kingdom, Russia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and India on Travel Channel International. The shows have garnered three regional Emmy awards as well as two CINE Golden Eagle Awards and two Silver Telly Awards. Episodes released in the winter of 2010 include shows on London, Edinburgh, Korea, the Silk Road cities of Uzbekistan and thre
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Rudy Maxa is one of America’s premier consumer travel experts whose writings and radio and television shows have helped save thousands of travelers both time and money. A former Washington Post investigative reporter and life-long traveler, Rudy began covering the travel industry 20 years ago for public radio’s evening business show, “Marketplace,” where his commentaries under his moniker, “The Savvy Traveler,” were heard by millions of listeners.
Today Rudy hosts the most widely syndicated, weekend travel/talk radio show in the United States. “Rudy Maxa’s World,” the radio show, and his Monday-Friday one-minute travel commentary are broadcast on more than 120 mostly news/talk radio stations in the US as well as on XM Radio.
Rudy also hosts an hour-long, call-in travel show Saturdays 7-8 p.m. Pacific time on the CBS news/talk station in Los Angeles, KFWB. Live streaming and podcasts of past shows are available at KFWB.com. He also contributes regular travel commentary to KNX, the CBS news station in Los Angeles and Southern Calif
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Rudy Maxa
American consumer travel expert (born 1949)
Rudy Maxa (born 1949) is an American consumer travel expert.[1]
Maxa is the host and executive producer of 98 half-hour travel television episodes featuring the world's great destinations that are broadcast on public television in the U.S. with titles such as Smart Travels: Europe with Rudy Maxa,[2]Smart Travels: Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa,[3] and—since 2008—Rudy Maxa's World.[4]
Career
Maxa began his career in journalism after graduating from Ohio University[5] as an investigative reporter, magazine writer, and personalities columnist at The Washington Post.
His reporting on a Capitol Hill sex scandal and the resulting changes in congressional rules was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and he received the John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Journalism for a series of stories on an international Ponzi scheme.[6]
He left the Post to become a senior editor at the city magazine Washingtonian (1983–92), and also worked
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