DesignTechnica has posted an editorial: I Wan My Tech TV

I spent the last 11 months watching TechTV as often as I could. The network helped me find plenty of ideas for articles, news items, or products to review for Designtechinca, but more than that, it entertained and educated me. And Leo, his Screen Savers co-host Patrick Norton, and the rest of the cast helped hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people with tech problems. Leo even spent all day on the day after Christmas doing his Call for Help-athon in which he answered as many calls as he could from people who just got new gadgets and didn’t know how to use them.

Then news came that G4, owned by Comcast, was buying TechTV and the two channels would merge as one. TechTV, the network with hot tech-savvy babes, knowledgeable hosts, informative shows and a loyal following would now be under the umbrella of G4, the network with poor talent, lame graphics, and nonsensical shows. It just didn’t make sense at all. Worse was news that Call for Help and Leo Laporte would be gone. Apparently Leo and Comcast couldn’t work out a deal and Comcast thought he appealed to a different type of audience than what they were going for.

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