An hour-long version of WireTap was distributed in the United States by Public Radio International.
The show fell into what had traditionally been CBC Radio One's comedy slot on Sunday afternoons, replacing Madly Off in All Directions, which moved to a different time slot.
WireTap has been described as "a weekly half-hour of conversation, storytelling and introspection, culled from equal parts real-world experience and the warp of Goldstein's imagination.
The series began in the summer of 2004 as a 10-episode experiment, after which it moved to its own regular time slot.
[4] CBC has announced that during the summer of 2020, "57 selected episodes from WireTap's catalog" would be released as a podcast,[5] with one episode airing on CBC Radio One each Monday night.