Leo laporte biography
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Leo Laporte
American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur
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Laporte pictured in 2007 | |
| Born | (1956-11-29) November 29, 1956 (age 68) New York City, U.S. |
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| Known for | Founding TWiT.tv |
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| Television | Internet! (PBS), The Site (MSNBC), Call for Help (ZDTV/TechTV), The Screen Savers (ZDTV/TechTV) |
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| Website | leo.fm |
Leo Laporte (; born November 29, 1956)[1] is the former host of The Tech Guy weekly radio show[2] and founder of TWiT.tv, an Internet podcast network focusing on technology. He is also a former TechTV technology host (1998–2008) and a technology author. On November 19, 2022, actor, writer, musician, and comedian Steve Martin called into Laporte's radio show to announce Leo's retirement from The Tech Guy radio show.[3] Laporte's la
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Leo Laporte is an American technology broadcaster, author and entrepreneur. He is the founder and owner of the TWiT Netcast Network.
Laporte has written software for CP/M, Macintosh, and PC compatible computers including the popular open source programs, QDial and MacArc for the Macintosh. From 1985 to 1988, he operated one of the first Macintosh-only computer bulletin board systems, MacQueue.
In January, 1991 he created and co-hosted Dvorak On Computers, the most listened to high tech talk radio show in the nation, syndicated on over 60 stations and around the world on the Armed Forces Radio Network. Laporte also hosted Laporte on Computers on KSFO and KGO Radio in San Francisco. In 2000-2001, Leo was a Contributing Editor at Access Magazine, a Sunday newspaper magazine supplement with an estimated readership of 13 million in 80 markets nationwide.
Laporte was the co-author, with former ABC Technology Correspondent Gi
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