Robert E. Frye, is the Managing Director of Whistling Communications LLC, an independent documentary production and communications consulting company.

In 2003 he completed a feature length documentary Berlin Metamorphoses, the third film in what has turned out to be a trilogy on Berlin, the story of reunification, reconciliation and rebuilding of what was a divided city, which was the epicenter of the Cold War, this all was a result of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Frye's credits as a producer and director for documentaries aired on public television include Berlin Metamorphoses,  The Berlin Airlift (PBS- July 1998) , The Journey of Butterfly (the story of the Nazi ghetto at Terezin in Czechoslovakia), Berlin: Journey of a City (the story of Berlin from 1945 to 1994) and Kristallnacht: The Journey from 1938 to 1988 (PBS - November 1989).  In 2001 he produced and directed a one-hour documentary Russia: Facing the Future for Carnegie Corporation of New York. 

For A&E, Frye produced Heroes, a twenty six part series profiling recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor; In Search of the Dream, a six part one hour series on the African-American experience and James Cagney: City Boy, Country Gentleman for the A&E Biography series.

As an independent producer Frye has also produced and directed award winning children's videos, programming for The Learning Channel, and he was a consulting producer for the educational series on public television, The Merrow Report.

Frye produced broadcasts at ABC News for over a decade. He was Executive Producer of ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings; Executive Producer of Good Morning America, News, and World News This Morning; Senior Producer, World News Tonight based in London and Washington Producer for the ABC Evening News. 

His credits for special projects include: co-Executive Producer of a three hour prime time documentary entitled The Secret Negotiations, which at the time of its airing in 1981 told the exclusive story behind the release of the American hostages in Iran; and in co-Senior Producer of the ABC News three hour prime time documentary FDR, broadcast on the centennial of Roosevelt's birth in 1982.   

Earlier in his career, Frye was Senior Producer for CBC Weekend, a weekly news magazine program originating from Toronto, which aired nationwide in Canada.  He was the Producer in Washington for Martin Agronsky's Evening Edition which was transmitted to public television stations via the Eastern Educational Network.  He started off his career as a page at NBC and moved on to NBC News as the researcher for Frank McGee and the NBC Instant Specials unit.

Frye has received the Emmy, Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton, the Peabody, the Polk, the Christopher, the Rockie from the Banff Film Festival, the Golden Hugo from The Chicago International Film Festival, the Headliner, the IRE (Investigative Reporters) and CINE Golden Eagle for his work.

In 1986 he became the President of Phillips Fine Art Auctioneers, North America where he remained until founding and running Bolthead Communications in 1988, a television and film documentary production company until its closing in 2004.
 
He was appointed a Fellow (1998-1999) at the Media Studies Center of the Freedom Forum in New York City.  In July 2001 he became a Senior Fellow at what is now the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.