1. Tom Merritt is a former co-host of Tech News Today on the TWiT.
14 Facts About Tom Merritt
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Tom Merritt was born in Greenville, Illinois, to Bill Tom Merritt, a food scientist who worked on the Coffee-Mate project.
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Tom Merritt co-hosted the tech support call-in program CNET Live with fellow editor Brian Cooley, and was the host of CNET Top 5.
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Tom Merritt was a regular host along with Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell.
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On joining TWiT, Tom Merritt brought with him two shows previously produced by the cartoonist Scott Johnson's Frogpants Studios.
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On November 10,2010, Tom Merritt officially launched his second new show on TWiT, FrameRate.
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On January 20,2011, TWiT officially launched Triangulation, a new show with Tom Merritt co-hosting with Leo Laporte and interviewing a notable figure in technology.
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Tom Merritt has acted as a relief host for Laporte on TWiT, Windows Weekly, Security Now and other shows when Laporte has been unavailable.
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On October 22,2012, Tom Merritt announced that he would be moving to Los Angeles to accommodate his wife's new employment at YouTube, but would continue to present on the TWiT network over Skype.
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Tom Merritt then did a similar show, CNET Top 5, for TechRepublic.
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Tom Merritt appeared in two early episodes of his Frame Rate co-host Brian Brushwood's Revision3 show Scam School.
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In early January 2014, following his departure from TWiT, Tom Merritt began co-hosting a podcast with Brian Brushwood called Cordkillers, while starting a new podcast, Daily Tech News Show.
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Tom Merritt is married to Eileen Rivera and they live in Los Angeles, California, with their dogs Sawyer and Rey, and formerly lived in Marin County and Oakland.
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Tom Merritt is a fan of Major League Baseball's St Louis Cardinals.