He was the host of a number of PBS television specials, including "Values Matter Most", "The Grandchild Gap", "America's Number One", "Ben Wattenberg's 1980", "The Stockholder Society", "A Third Choice" (about the role of third parties in American politics), "", "The Democrats", and "The First Measured Century". He hosted the weekly PBS television program, "Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg", from 1994 to 2010, and previously hosted PBS series "In Search of the Real America" and "Ben Wattenberg At Large". In a New Yorker article from 1996, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., refers to Wattenberg's book "Values Matter Most" as "the book that prompted Bill Clinton’s infamous midnight-of-the-soul telephone call to the author".