Kate Botello is a former American television personality best known for her work on the

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-based

ZDTV TechTV is a defunct 24-hour cable and satellite channel based in San Francisco featuring news and shows about computers, technology, and the Internet. In 2004, it merged with the G4 gaming channel which ultimately dissolved TechTV programming ...

(later known as

TechTV TechTV is a defunct 24-hour cable and satellite channel based in San Francisco featuring news and shows about computers, technology, and the Internet. In 2004, it merged with the G4 gaming channel which ultimately dissolved TechTV programming ...

and then as G4).

Career

She began her television career in 1998 co-hosting the technology-oriented television program ''

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'' alongside

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. In 1999, Botello and Laporte were described as "the two most popular personalities on the only 24-hour national cable channel devoted exclusively to computers and the Internet". When the pair appeared at a promotional event in

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that year: "Geeks swarmed the local electronics store where Kate Botello and Leo Laporte were signing autographs. Security had to be called to help guide the two computer advice experts to their car." In 2000, Botello left ''The Screen Savers'' to co-host GameSpot TV, a video game review show, with

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. In February 2001, the show was renamed ''

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''. She also co-hosted a TechTV video on computer basics with

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. Botello left TechTV in 2002 and moved to

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where she worked on

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as a freelance actor, singer and playwright. In her time there, she starred

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in the

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musical, ''Judy Garland and the Uninvited Company'' and the annual holiday musical, ''Judy's Christmas Garland''. The cabaret show later toured other cities. A critic wrote that "Botello nails Garland's familiar speaking voice, singing voice and facial expressions". In November 2005, Botello moved to

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where she and Raymond Weigel founded Traverse City Web Design. In June 2011, Botello began hosting Weird News Radio, a weekly audio podcast, with Jim Harold. She is also on the air from 7 to 10 am Eastern on "Classical IPR", part of

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. Her latest endeavor is "Showtunes with Kate Botello" airing on Classical IPR, Sunday evenings at 7 pm EST.Show Tunes with Kate Botello , Interlochen
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References

External links

WeirdNewsRadio.com
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Traverse City Web Design

Search results for Botello on the web site of La Voz... México

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