History
Leo Laporte has been doing one version or another of his technology talk show since 1990, including a syndicated show originating from KGO. "The Tech Show" began on KFI weekends in 2004, only months prior to the cancellation of Call for Help and The Screen Savers from the newly merged G4techTV in the United States. According to Leo, he had to find a way to keep talking about technology, and facetiously mentioned that if it wasn't for KFI green lighting the show, he would have ended up "having to talk to iswife about it." The show ran weekends on KFI at 11 AM. Leo also appeared on Bill Handel's morning show on Fridays for The Laporte Report segment. Leo also does a Laporte Report live segment for CFRB in Toronto, Ontario on Saturday mornings. In late 2006, Leo notified his audience on net@nite that his contract with KFI was going to expire soon, and it was hinted at that he would only continue with Clear Channel if "The Tech Guy" was syndicated. With the help of management at KFI, Premiere Networks picked up the show for syndication, and it was announced on January 27, 2007, that it would roll out nationally. On February 17, 2007, the newly syndicated "The Tech Guy" radio show launched nationally on eleven radio stations, including KFI. The show grew sharply from the original twelve to over one hundred by the summer of 2011. The show later grew to be syndicated on over two hundred stations by 2021. LaPort retired from "The Tech Guy" on December 18, 2022. He and frequent cohost Mikah Sargent began "Ask the Tech Guys" podcast on January 8 , 2023.Live chat
A public Internet Relay Chat ran while the show aired live on the server irc.twit.tv in the #twitlive channel. Leo participated in the chat during commercial breaks and often referred to the chat to give him additional information to assist with some of the callers' questions. The channel was moderated to keep the chat clean and on-topic.Podcast
Every show is available as a podcast on the TWiT network, distributed viaTechnical details
The show was produced from Leo Laporte's "TWiT Cottage" at 8 Keller St. but moved to the new TWiT studio known as the TWiT Brick House at 140 Keller St. in late July 2011. It streamed to Premiere Networks via ISDN to Premiere at 64 kbps. From there Premiere uplinked it to their satellite network for distribution. Leo also streamed the show on the TWiT Live website. The July 24, 2011, show was the last program produced at the TWiT Cottage, with Laporte parading through downtown Petaluma after the end of that day's show to the Brick House with his staff and onlookers to inaugurate the new facility, which opened an hour later with that week's ''This Week in Tech''. The first ''The Tech Guy'' show produced at the TWiT Brick House was on July 30, which also was the first broadcast from Leo's office set, which was built to resemble the former Cottage studio.Radio affiliates
"The Tech Guy" radio show was syndicated to several affiliates across America, including the show's flagship, KFI in Los Angeles, California. While formerly on KGO-AM in San Francisco, California—the metropolitan area nearest TWiT's studios—it was tape-delayed Sundays on KKSF-AM. The show ran live for three hours each Saturday and Sunday at 11 a.m. Pacific, 2 p.m. Eastern, with some stations delaying their airing until later in the day. Some affiliates picked up both shows each weekend, while others chose to run one.Rich On Tech
After LaPorte's retirement in December 2022, Rich DeMuro, Laporte's frequent fill-in host and technology reporter forReferences
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