The Screen Savers
The Screen Savers is a live American television program, shown on the TechTV (now G4TechTV) channel, which premiered along with the channel (then known as ZDTV) on May 11, 1998.
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.
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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 and Hostesses, Past and Present
- Leo Laporte (Left April 1st 2004, now on KFI AM 640 radio; Previously on Call For Help, and soon to host Call for Help 2.0)
- Patrick Norton (Left in July 2004)
- Kevin Rose
- Jessica Corbin (now seen on Tech Live)
- Sarah Lane
- Yoshi DeHerrera
- 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)
- Kate Botello
- Dan Huard