Leo Laporte is the former host of The Tech Guy weekly radio show and a host on TWiT.
13 Facts About Leo Laporte
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Leo Laporte is a former TechTV technology host and a technology author.
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Leo Laporte studied Chinese history at Yale University before dropping out in his junior year to pursue a career in radio broadcasting, where his early on-air names were Dave Allen and Dan Hayes.
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Leo Laporte began his association with computers with his first home computer, an Atari 400.
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In 1997, Leo Laporte was awarded a Northern California Emmy for his role as Dev Null, a motion capture character on the MSNBC show The Site.
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In 1998, Leo Laporte created and co-hosted The Screen Savers, and the original version of Call for Help on the cable and satellite network ZDTV.
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Laporte was the host of the daily television show The Lab with Leo Laporte, recorded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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On March 5,2008, Laporte confirmed on net@nite that The Lab with Leo Laporte had been canceled by Rogers Communications.
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Leo Laporte hosted, until December 2022, a weekend technology-oriented talk radio program show titled Leo Laporte: The Tech Guy.
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Leo Laporte appeared on Friday mornings on KFI with Bill Handel, and previously on such shows as Showbiz Tonight, Live with Kelly, and World News Now.
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Leo Laporte has published a yearly series of technology almanacs:.
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Leo Laporte announced in October 2006 that he would not renew his contract with Que Publishing, and had retired from publishing books.
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In 2008, Leo Laporte did a voice narration of Andrew Lang's fable The True History of Little Golden-hood from Audible, a sponsor.