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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 . Recently G4 has revamped the show. They laid off all former "on air" TechTV crew except for Sarah Lane and Kevin Rose.

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 7 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co.

1 Screen Savers and Wikipedia vandalism

On the live June 12June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. Events 1381 Peasants' Revolt: In England rebels arrive at Blackheath. 1653 First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard lasted until June 13., 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U episode, The Screen Savers host Sarah Lane "vandalised" the Wikipedia page on monkeypoxThe Monkeypox virus, first identified in 1958 as a pathogen of cynomolgus monkeys, is an orthopoxvirus with a clinical presentation similar to smallpox. Human monkeypox is a rare zoonotic viral disease that occurs primarily in remote villages of Central a, 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."

2 Show revamp

On November 11November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining. Events 1215 The fourth lateran council meets, adopting the doctrine of transubstantiation, meaning that bread and wine are transformed into t, 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co, Kevin Rose, Sarah Lane, and Alex Albrecht announced on their sites that G4 had decided to revamp The Screen Savers. Alex Albrecht, Yoshi DeHerrera, Dan Huard, and a majority of long-time producers of the show were officially terminated. New episodes of the revamped show are scheduled to start sometime after Thanksgiving.

On November 23, 2004, Kevin Rose annouced on his site that he and Sarah Lane would return to content creation as two new hosts, Kevin Pereira , and Chi-Lan Lieu take over hosting duties.



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