Porthole TV

Porthole TV is a travel television series based on Porthole Cruise Magazine, which is available in 40 countries and distributed by Warner Publisher Services.

Porthole TV features the cruise ship experience and its intriguing ports of call, taking viewers behind the scenes on the worlds’ most incredible cruise ships, along with tours of picture-postcard destinations.

Porthole TV is an offshoot of the highly successful Porthole Cruise Magazine a bi-monthly consumer magazine that is available on a subscription basis or on newsstands around the world. Porthole TV is the creation of Bill Panoff, publisher and editor-in-chief of Porthole Cruise Magazine, and Sidney M. Cohen, television executive producer and avid cruiser.

As the modern-day cruise industry has diversified with all sizes of ships and amenities, so have the decisions vacationers have to make, when they are interested in taking either their first, or their 50th cruise. This is what makes Porthole TV such an interesting concept; it is on the cutting edge of the developments in the cruise industry.

Catering to the more active demographic (25-54), each episode of Porthole TV includes cruise tips from industry experts and professionals as well as informative insight to the many shore excursions available at the various and exotic ports of call.


The series was created by Sidney M. Cohen, who directed and hosted many of the episodes which highlighted cruise ships and ports of call.

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