Meet Leo Laporte - Host of 'Call For Help'Leo Laporte returns to G4 Canada. |
Leo Laporte majored in Chinese history as an undergraduate at Yale University. Since then he has worked as an author, speaker, and broadcaster in New Haven, Monterey, San Jose, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, most recently focusing on technology coverage for radio and television.
Laporte has written software for CP/M, Macintosh, and PC compatible computers including the popular open source programs, Q Dial and Mac Arc for the Macintosh. From 1985 to 1988, he operated one of the first Macintosh-only computer bulletin board systems, Mac Queue.
He is the co-author, with former ABC Technology Correspondent Gina Smith, of "101 Computer Answers You Need to Know," a computer book for beginners published in 1995 by Ziff-Davis Press. He has written about computer hardware and software for Byte, Mac User, and Info World magazines, and he has contributed chapters to "Dvorak’s Guide to PC Telecommunications" and "Dvorak’s Inside Track to the Mac," both published by Mc Graw Hill. He has written three bestselling "Technology Almanacs." "Leo Laporte’s 2003 Technology Almanac" was Pearson Publishing’s Book of the Year. The 2004 edition is in stores now.
In 2000–2001, Leo was also a Contributing Editor at Access Magazine, a Sunday newspaper magazine supplement with an estimated readership of 13 million in 80 markets nationwide.
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.
On television, Laporte was host of Internet! a weekly half-hour show airing on PBS in 215 cities nationwide. He reported on new media for Today’s First Edition, on PBS, and did daily product reviews and demos on New Media News, broadcast nationally on Jones Computer Network and ME/U, and regionally on San Francisco’s Bay TV.
He was a Managing Editor at Ziff-Davis Television, where he wrote and co-hosted "The Personal Computing Show," a half-hour weekly television show for beginning computer users that aired on CNBC. He created and was a daily contributor to The Site, an hour-long technology newsmagazine that aired nightly on MSNBC, CNBC International, and NBC Superchannel in Europe and Asia. Laporte won an Emmy in 1997 for his work on The Site. He also hosted two shows on Tech TV (formerly ZDTV), a 24-hour cable channel dedicated to computers and the Internet. Call for Help and The Screen Savers aired live every weekday from 1998 to 2004.
Currently Leo hosts a technology talk show on KFI AM 640, Los Angeles every Saturday and Sunday from noon to 3p, He also appears regularly on many television and radio programs including G4's The Screen Savers, ABC’s World News Now and Live with Regis and Kelly.This summer the new Call for Help will debut on G4tech TV Canada.
Leo lives in Northern California with his wife, Jennifer, his two children, Abby and Henry, and two sheep, four cats, and an African Cichlid named Billy Bob, Jr.
You can find my resume at www.leoville.com/resume.shtml.
