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Leo Laporte
Photograph of Leo Laporte's head and shoulders. Leo is pictured wearing a patterned shirt. There is a black background and Leo is smiling.Leo Laporte pictured in 2007
BornLeo Gordon Laporte
(1956-11-29) November 29, 1956 (age 68)
New York City, New York, US
Occupations
  • TV and radio presenter
  • podcaster
Known forFounding TWiT.tv
Notable credits
Spouses
  • Jennifer Laporte (divorced)
  • Lisa Laporte (m. c. 2015)
Websiteleo.fm Edit this at Wikidata

Leo Gordon Laporte (born (1956-11-29)November 29, 1956) is the host of The Tech Guy weekly radio show and a host on TWiT.tv, an Internet podcast network focusing on technology. He is also a former TechTV technology host (1998–2008) and a technology author.

Background

Leo Laporte is the son of geologist Leo F. Laporte. He 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. He began his association with computers with his first home computer, an Atari 400.

Television and radio

Laporte has worked on technology-related broadcasting projects, including Dvorak on Computers in January 1991 (co-hosted with technology writer John C. Dvorak), and Laporte on Computers on KGO Radio and KSFO in San Francisco.

In 1997, Laporte was awarded a Northern California Emmy for his role as Dev Null, a motion capture character on the MSNBC show The Site.

In 1998, Laporte created and co-hosted The Screen Savers, and the original version of Call for Help on the cable and satellite network ZDTV (later TechTV).

Laporte was the host of the daily television show The Lab with Leo Laporte, recorded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The program had formerly been known as Call for Help when it was recorded in the US and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The series aired on G4 Canada, on the HOW TO Channel in Australia, on several of Canada's Citytv affiliates, and on Google Video. On March 5, 2008, Laporte confirmed on net@nite that The Lab with Leo Laporte had been canceled by Rogers Communications. The HOW TO Channel did not air the remaining episodes after it was announced the show had been canceled.

He hosts a weekend technology-oriented talk radio program show titled Leo Laporte: The Tech Guy. The show, started on KFI AM 640 (Los Angeles), is syndicated through Premiere Radio Networks. Laporte appears on Friday mornings on KFI with Bill Handel, and previously on such shows as Showbiz Tonight, Live with Kelly, and World News Now. He holds an amateur radio license, W6TWT.

Books

Laporte has written technology-oriented books including:

He has published a yearly series of technology almanacs:

Laporte announced in October 2006 that he would not renew his contract with Que Publishing, and had retired from publishing books.

In 2008, Laporte did a voice narration of Andrew Lang's fable The True History of Little Golden-hood from Audible (Amazon), a sponsor.

Podcasting

Laporte owns and operates a podcast network, TWiT.tv with his wife Lisa Laporte. Before the expansion to new facilities in 2011, Laporte said TWiT earned US$1.5 million (equivalent to $2,030,000 in 2023) annually on a production cost of US$350,000 (equivalent to $474,000 in 2023). In a 2012 Reddit posting, he commented that revenue was approaching US$4 million (equivalent to $5,420,000 in 2023). The TWiT studios are located in Petaluma, California, where Laporte lives.

Notes

  1. Pronounced /ləˈpɔːrt/.

References

  1. Laporte, Leo (4 December 2021). "The Tech Guy #1849". TWiT.tv (Podcast). Event occurs at 17:37. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  2. ^ Marriott, Michael (21 December 2003). "COVER STORY; Plug In, Boot Up, Feel Free to Melt Down". The New York Times. eISSN 1553-8095. ISSN 0362-4331. OCLC 1645522. Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  3. "Leo Laporte, Your Go-To Gadget Guy". Premiere Radio Networks.
  4. Schwartzman, Eric (1 September 2005). "How to Pitch Leo Laporte of TWiT". On the Record Online Podcast (Podcast). Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  5. TwitLive Broadcast, after hours, 9 December 2008
  6. "Focus On: Leo". G4. n.d. Archived from the original on 26 September 2006. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  7. Friess, Steve (3 October 2006). "Podcasting's Reluctant Evangelist". WIRED. eISSN 1078-3148. ISSN 1059-1028. OCLC 24479723. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2021.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  8. ^ Hiner, Jason (April 19, 2015). "The New Screen Savers: TWiT resurrects the show that launched tech video into the stratosphere". ZDNet. Retrieved October 25, 2021.
  9. The Lab with Leo Laporte Internet Archive
  10. Lab with Leo off TV in Australia – Let us See the Remaining Episodes Archived August 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  11. Response from How-To Channel Australia Regarding The Lab with Leo Archived August 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  12. "CNN.com – Transcripts". cnn.com.
  13. Leoville: Live with Regis and Kelly Archived March 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  14. The Red Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang : THE TRUE HISTORY OF LITTLE GOLDEN HOOD
  15. TWiT.TV – this WEEK in TECH Archived January 21, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  16. Danae Ringelmann interviewed on the TV show Triangulation on the TWiT.tv network
  17. Pete Cashmore. "Leo Laporte Makes $1.5 Million Per Year from Podcasting". Mashable. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
  18. Leo Laporte. "TWiT revenue at $4 million". Reddit. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
  19. "TWiT Eastside Studio FAQ". The Official TWiT Wiki.

External links

TWiT.tv
Podcasts
Hosts
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