The Screen Savers is a live American television program, shown on the G4techTV (formerly TechTV) cable channel, which premiered along with the channel (originally known as ZDTV) on May 11, 1998. The original hosts were Leo Laporte and Kate Botello .

The Screen Savers is best described as a computer/technology variety show, which presents computer industry and technology related news, product demonstrations, software clinics, and interviews with notable people, usually with some levity. Like a talk radio show, the hosts take phone calls from viewers as well.

The show was originally based in San Francisco, but TechTV's merger with G4 led to it being moved to Los Angeles. The first Los Angeles-based episode was on September 72004.

Screen Savers and Wikipedia Vandalism

On the live June 12, 2003 episode, The Screen Savers host Sarah Lane "vandalised" the Wikipedia page on monkeypox, by writing "Sarah Lane is totally cool and does not have monkeypox." [1]

She later wrote that:

"Although this excites me in its ease and simplicity, it's a little frightening. I mean, what if I had instead written 'My boss is a big fat **** and his phone number is ****'? Sure, somebody would delete it, but this calls for some seriously dedicated moderators."

Hosts

The current lineup of The Screen Savers is:

• Alex Albrecht : Alex is the newest member of the show. His debut was the first episode from Los Angeles.
• Kevin Rose: Kevin's stint as co-host began when original host Leo Laporte left the show. He is best known for his "Dark Tips", information for the budding hacker.
• Sarah Lane
• Yoshi DeHerrera : Yoshi is the show's modding guru.
• Dan Huard (also known by his nickname "Foo")

Former hosts include:

• Leo Laporte (left April 1, 2004, now on KFI AM 640 radio; previously on Call For Help, and now hosts Call for Help 2.0 )
• Patrick Norton
• Jessica Corbin
• Morgan Webb (now seen on X-Play)
• Cat Schwartz (formerly seen on Call For Help)
• Megan Morrone (left to have a baby, now works for Microsoft)
• Martin Sargent (now seen on Unscrewed with Martin Sargent )
• Kate Botello

External links

• Official site