Sarah Lane
Encyclopedia
Sarah Christina Lane is an American
television
and Internet
personality. She is most notably known for her appearances on TechTV
's The Screen Savers
, G4's Attack of the Show!
, and Revision3's popSiren. In 2009 she was the co-host of the This WEEK in FUN podcast, currently on hiatus, with Martin Sargent
, part of the TWiT.tv
network.
She currently appears on a number of podcast
s on the TWiT.tv
network. Lane co-hosts the daily technology podcast Tech News Today with Tom Merritt
, Iyaz Akhtar
, and Jason Howell which airs live Monday through Friday. She also co-hosts the weekly Apple iPad podcast iPad Today with Leo Laporte
and the weekly social media podcast The Social Hour with Amber MacArthur
.
and later grew up in Sebastopol, California
. She attended San Francisco State University
where she received a bachelor's degree
in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts in 1998. She referred to herself as a nice Irish girl on Net@Nite (Episode 164) a podcast on the Twit Network.
in the station's San Jose, California
bureau (where the now-defunct KRON/AT&T Broadband
-owned 24-hour
cable news
and local television programming channel Bay TV was based) starting out as a Production Assistant before eventually becoming a Series Producer/Director. She produced weekly half-hour hi-tech newsmagazine
programs, a documentary, and wrote for the nightly news.
In February 2001, Lane was hired by TechTV
to be a Senior Segment Producer
and on-air talent
for The Screen Savers
, a television show centered around computers, new technologies, and their adaptations in the world.
In April 2004, Lane, along with fellow TechTV personalities Morgan Webb
, Laura Swisher
, Catherine Schwartz
, and Melanie Kim, was included in the "TechTV's Sexiest Techie" poll sponsored by Playboy
magazine. TechTV viewers could vote for their favorite girl via the Playboy website, and the winner of the poll would be offered a nude photo spread in a future issue of Playboy. Morgan Webb, who won the poll, did not pose.
On March 25, 2004, Comcast
's G4 gaming channel announced a merger with TechTV. This move became hugely controversial among loyal fans of TechTV. Around May 6, G4 announced the termination
of 250 employees from the San Francisco
office by July 10, 2004, allowing approximately 80 to 100 employees to transition to G4's main office in Los Angeles, California
if they agreed to relocate there. Lane chose to stay with G4 and moved to Los Angeles. Lane was one of only six TechTV personalities, including Adam Sessler
, Morgan Webb
, Kevin Rose
, Chi-Lan Lieu
, and Brendan Moran
, to survive the layoffs resulting from the May 2004 merger of G4 and TechTV.
Lane remained as a senior segment producer and on-air talent for the nightly G4TechTV technology show The Screen Savers. Later, the show would switch gears, becoming the variety show Attack of the Show!
where her main involvement revolved around the American entertainment
sector. She also produced weekly segments entitled Sarah's Damn Good Website, which showed off amusing or entertaining website
s, "Damn Good Downloads", which demonstrated exactly what it sounds like and "Gems of the Internet" which found oddities on the internet
. She also produced a daily news segment entitled "The Feed". Lane's last appearance on Attack of the Show! was on April 6, 2006.
Sarah was employed as the Director of Production at Revision3 and co-hosted popSiren, a Revision3 original show. She was laid off on October 28, 2008 as part of the Revision3 layoffs but appears infrequently on Leo Laporte
's This Week in Tech
podcast as a panelist.
Starting in December 2008, she and Martin Sargent
launched a new Friday program from the TWiT Cottage called This Week in Fun, which officially began to be distributed as a feed on April 10, 2009 after several weeks as a beta of live video. For several weeks Sarah filled in for Amber MacArthur
on net@night due to the birth of MacArthur's child Connor. She has since continued to appear on the program in the last segment via Skype
with Laporte and MacArthur.
She also appeared on the 1000th episode special for Attack of the Show! on G4 as a surprise guest. She also appeared on the hundredth episode of The Digg Reel.
on Monday and Friday. With Becky Worley
reducing her time commitments on the TWiT Network, Sarah became a daily co-host with Tom. Currently, Tech News Today is co-hosted by Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar
, and Jason Howell and airs live Monday through Friday. TNT premiered on June 1, 2010.
Leo Laporte
and Sarah launched a weekly Apple iPad
podcast iPad Today on July 8, 2010 to discuss the iPad and iPad apps.
Sarah launched Green Tech Today a green technology podcast with Dr. Kiki Sanford which debuted August 4, 2010, but has not appeared on Green Tech Today since Episode 9 on November 8, 2010.
On March 28, 2011 Amber MacArthur
co-hosted the first episode of The Social Hour with Sarah. This weekly podcast focusing on social media replaced Net@night with Sarah replacing Leo Laporte as Amber’s co-host.
on May 20, 2006. They both left Attack of the Show!
and began a thirteen-month long honeymoon tour of the world and to pursue other opportunities. As they traveled, she continued updating the world on their adventures via her travel blog.
On December 31, 2008, she publicly announced on her blog that she and Brendan had divorced.
On October 11, 2009, Lane was at a Los Angeles restaurant with a friend when she experienced a severe tonic–clonic seizure, went into spasms and blacked out. It was apparently her first such seizure. She was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she apparently stayed for a couple of days before being diagnosed with a lesion on her brain and eventually put on anti-seizure medications and discharged. Lane wrote on her blog that further diagnosis revealed that neurocysticercosis tumors have developed as a result of her contracting cysticercosis
. This may have caused the seizure.
On July 31, 2011, it was confirmed on This Week in Tech that Lane is seeing tech journalist MG Siegler.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
television
Television
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and Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
personality. She is most notably known for her appearances on TechTV
TechTV
TechTV was a 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...
's The Screen Savers
The Screen Savers
The Screen Savers was a live American TV show on TechTV. The show launched concurrently with the channel ZDTV on May 11, 1998. The Screen Savers originally centered around computers, new technologies, and their adaptations in the world...
, G4's Attack of the Show!
Attack of the Show!
Attack of the Show! is an American live television program shown weeknights on G4, G4 Canada and Fuel TV in Australia. The program is hosted by Kevin Pereira and Candace Bailey...
, and Revision3's popSiren. In 2009 she was the co-host of the This WEEK in FUN podcast, currently on hiatus, with Martin Sargent
Martin Sargent
Martin Paul Sargent is an American television personality and was co-host of the This WEEK in FUN podcast with Sarah Lane...
, part of the TWiT.tv
TWiT.tv (network)
The TWiT Netcast Network, which is the operating trade name of TWiT LLC, is a podcast network run by technology broadcaster and author Leo Laporte. The network began operation in April 2005 with the launch of This Week in Tech. Security Now was the second podcast on the network, debuting in...
network.
She currently appears on a number of podcast
Podcast
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...
s on the TWiT.tv
TWiT.tv (network)
The TWiT Netcast Network, which is the operating trade name of TWiT LLC, is a podcast network run by technology broadcaster and author Leo Laporte. The network began operation in April 2005 with the launch of This Week in Tech. Security Now was the second podcast on the network, debuting in...
network. Lane co-hosts the daily technology podcast Tech News Today with Tom Merritt
Tom Merritt
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Merritt is a technology journalist and broadcaster who hosts a daily show on Leo Laporte's TWiT.tv Netcast Network Tech News Today...
, Iyaz Akhtar
Iyaz Akhtar
Iyaz Akhtar is an internet personality. While he is a graduate of the New York University School of Law , he is better known for hosting podcasts such as TWiT.tv's Tech News Today with Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Jason Howell. Iyaz also appears on This Old Nerd, and Finite Comedy.-External...
, and Jason Howell which airs live Monday through Friday. She also co-hosts the weekly Apple iPad podcast iPad Today with Leo Laporte
Leo Laporte
Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry....
and the weekly social media podcast The Social Hour with Amber MacArthur
Amber MacArthur
Amber Dawn MacArthur is a Canadian television and netcasting personality. MacArthur is currently the co-host of BNN's App Central....
.
Early life
Lane was born in Santa Cruz, CaliforniaSanta Cruz, California
Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946...
and later grew up in Sebastopol, California
Sebastopol, California
Sebastopol is a city in Sonoma County, California, United States, approximately north of San Francisco. The population was 7,379 at the 2010 census, but its businesses also serve surrounding rural portions of Sonoma County, totaling about 50,000 people...
. She attended San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University is a public university located in San Francisco, California. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers over 100 areas of study from nine academic colleges...
where she received a bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts in 1998. She referred to herself as a nice Irish girl on Net@Nite (Episode 164) a podcast on the Twit Network.
Career
Lane worked several years for KRON-TVKRON-TV
KRON-TV, virtual channel 4 , is a television station in San Francisco, California, serving as the Bay Area affiliate of the MyNetworkTV programming service; the station is owned by Young Broadcasting...
in the station's San Jose, California
San Jose, California
San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
bureau (where the now-defunct KRON/AT&T Broadband
AT&T Broadband
AT&T Broadband was the name of AT&T's cable operations, which were composed of the assets of TCI and MediaOne, Prime Cable, as well as two Comcast cable systems AT&T acquired later in a system swap. Formed in 1999, AT&T Broadband was the largest provider of cable television services...
-owned 24-hour
24-hour news cycle
The 24-hour news cycle arrived with the advent of television channels dedicated to news, and brought about a much faster pace of news production with increased demand for stories that can be presented as news, as opposed to the day-by-day pace of the news cycle of printed daily newspapers...
cable news
United States cable news
Cable news refers to television channels devoted to television news broadcasts, with the name deriving from the proliferation of such networks during the 1980s with the advent of cable television. In the United States, early networks included CNN in 1980, Financial News Network in 1981, and CNN2 ...
and local television programming channel Bay TV was based) starting out as a Production Assistant before eventually becoming a Series Producer/Director. She produced weekly half-hour hi-tech newsmagazine
Newsmagazine
A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published piece of paper, magazine or a radio or television program, usually weekly, featuring articles or segments on current events...
programs, a documentary, and wrote for the nightly news.
In February 2001, Lane was hired by TechTV
TechTV
TechTV was a 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...
to be a Senior Segment Producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...
and on-air talent
Celebrity
A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media...
for The Screen Savers
The Screen Savers
The Screen Savers was a live American TV show on TechTV. The show launched concurrently with the channel ZDTV on May 11, 1998. The Screen Savers originally centered around computers, new technologies, and their adaptations in the world...
, a television show centered around computers, new technologies, and their adaptations in the world.
In April 2004, Lane, along with fellow TechTV personalities Morgan Webb
Morgan Webb
Morgan Ailis Webb is a co-host and senior segment producer of the G4 show X-Play, and host of the show G4 Underground...
, Laura Swisher
Laura Swisher
Laura Swisher was the comedic sidekick of Unscrewed with Martin Sargent that aired late-nights on TechTV. The show was cancelled on November 11, 2004, after G4 had purchased TechTV....
, Catherine Schwartz
Catherine Schwartz
Catherine Michelle Schwartz is an American television personality perhaps best known for her former role as co-host on the TechTV television program Call for Help with Leo Laporte.-Early years:...
, and Melanie Kim, was included in the "TechTV's Sexiest Techie" poll sponsored by Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
magazine. TechTV viewers could vote for their favorite girl via the Playboy website, and the winner of the poll would be offered a nude photo spread in a future issue of Playboy. Morgan Webb, who won the poll, did not pose.
On March 25, 2004, Comcast
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...
's G4 gaming channel announced a merger with TechTV. This move became hugely controversial among loyal fans of TechTV. Around May 6, G4 announced the termination
Termination of employment
-Involuntary termination:Involuntary termination is the employee's departure at the hands of the employer. There are two basic types of involuntary termination, known often as being "fired" and "laid off." To be fired, as opposed to being laid off, is generally thought of to be the employee's...
of 250 employees from the San Francisco
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
office by July 10, 2004, allowing approximately 80 to 100 employees to transition to G4's main office in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
if they agreed to relocate there. Lane chose to stay with G4 and moved to Los Angeles. Lane was one of only six TechTV personalities, including Adam Sessler
Adam Sessler
Adam Donovan Sessler is co-host of X-Play on G4 with Morgan Webb and, as of December 17, 2008, editor-in-chief of G4's game content for the network. He is the only remaining television personality from the G4's origin network ZDTV.-Background:Sessler was born in Berkeley, California...
, Morgan Webb
Morgan Webb
Morgan Ailis Webb is a co-host and senior segment producer of the G4 show X-Play, and host of the show G4 Underground...
, Kevin Rose
Kevin Rose
Kevin Rose is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk...
, Chi-Lan Lieu
Chi-Lan Lieu
Chi-Lan Lieu previously worked on the TechTV show Fresh Gear as a correspondent until it was canceled following the merger of TechTV and G4. She later became an on-air contributor for The Screen Savers in November of 2004 until departing the network in January of 2005.Chi-Lan appears in the music...
, and Brendan Moran
Brendan Moran
Brendan Moran is an American television personality best known for his work as a co-host and field reporter on the G4 television program Attack of the Show!...
, to survive the layoffs resulting from the May 2004 merger of G4 and TechTV.
Lane remained as a senior segment producer and on-air talent for the nightly G4TechTV technology show The Screen Savers. Later, the show would switch gears, becoming the variety show Attack of the Show!
Attack of the Show!
Attack of the Show! is an American live television program shown weeknights on G4, G4 Canada and Fuel TV in Australia. The program is hosted by Kevin Pereira and Candace Bailey...
where her main involvement revolved around the American entertainment
Entertainment
Entertainment consists of any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. Entertainment is generally passive, such as watching opera or a movie. Active forms of amusement, such as sports, are more often considered to be recreation...
sector. She also produced weekly segments entitled Sarah's Damn Good Website, which showed off amusing or entertaining website
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
s, "Damn Good Downloads", which demonstrated exactly what it sounds like and "Gems of the Internet" which found oddities on the internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
. She also produced a daily news segment entitled "The Feed". Lane's last appearance on Attack of the Show! was on April 6, 2006.
Sarah was employed as the Director of Production at Revision3 and co-hosted popSiren, a Revision3 original show. She was laid off on October 28, 2008 as part of the Revision3 layoffs but appears infrequently on Leo Laporte
Leo Laporte
Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry....
's This Week in Tech
This Week in Tech
This Week in Tech–casually referred to as TWiT, and formerly known as Revenge of the Screen Savers–is the weekly flagship podcast of the TWiT.tv network...
podcast as a panelist.
Starting in December 2008, she and Martin Sargent
Martin Sargent
Martin Paul Sargent is an American television personality and was co-host of the This WEEK in FUN podcast with Sarah Lane...
launched a new Friday program from the TWiT Cottage called This Week in Fun, which officially began to be distributed as a feed on April 10, 2009 after several weeks as a beta of live video. For several weeks Sarah filled in for Amber MacArthur
Amber MacArthur
Amber Dawn MacArthur is a Canadian television and netcasting personality. MacArthur is currently the co-host of BNN's App Central....
on net@night due to the birth of MacArthur's child Connor. She has since continued to appear on the program in the last segment via Skype
Skype
Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls and chat over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phones can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system...
with Laporte and MacArthur.
She also appeared on the 1000th episode special for Attack of the Show! on G4 as a surprise guest. She also appeared on the hundredth episode of The Digg Reel.
TWiT.TV
On May 30, 2010, Leo Laporte announced that he hired Lane join the TWiT network. Lane originally co-hosted Tech News Today (TNT) with Tom MerrittTom Merritt
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Merritt is a technology journalist and broadcaster who hosts a daily show on Leo Laporte's TWiT.tv Netcast Network Tech News Today...
on Monday and Friday. With Becky Worley
Becky Worley
Becky Worley is an American journalist and broadcaster. She is the tech contributor for Good Morning America on ABC, host and blogger for a web show on Yahoo! Tech.-Personal life:...
reducing her time commitments on the TWiT Network, Sarah became a daily co-host with Tom. Currently, Tech News Today is co-hosted by Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar
Iyaz Akhtar
Iyaz Akhtar is an internet personality. While he is a graduate of the New York University School of Law , he is better known for hosting podcasts such as TWiT.tv's Tech News Today with Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Jason Howell. Iyaz also appears on This Old Nerd, and Finite Comedy.-External...
, and Jason Howell and airs live Monday through Friday. TNT premiered on June 1, 2010.
Leo Laporte
Leo Laporte
Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry....
and Sarah launched a weekly Apple iPad
IPad
The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. The iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010 by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and...
podcast iPad Today on July 8, 2010 to discuss the iPad and iPad apps.
Sarah launched Green Tech Today a green technology podcast with Dr. Kiki Sanford which debuted August 4, 2010, but has not appeared on Green Tech Today since Episode 9 on November 8, 2010.
On March 28, 2011 Amber MacArthur
Amber MacArthur
Amber Dawn MacArthur is a Canadian television and netcasting personality. MacArthur is currently the co-host of BNN's App Central....
co-hosted the first episode of The Social Hour with Sarah. This weekly podcast focusing on social media replaced Net@night with Sarah replacing Leo Laporte as Amber’s co-host.
Personal life
Sarah Lane married Brendan MoranBrendan Moran
Brendan Moran is an American television personality best known for his work as a co-host and field reporter on the G4 television program Attack of the Show!...
on May 20, 2006. They both left Attack of the Show!
Attack of the Show!
Attack of the Show! is an American live television program shown weeknights on G4, G4 Canada and Fuel TV in Australia. The program is hosted by Kevin Pereira and Candace Bailey...
and began a thirteen-month long honeymoon tour of the world and to pursue other opportunities. As they traveled, she continued updating the world on their adventures via her travel blog.
On December 31, 2008, she publicly announced on her blog that she and Brendan had divorced.
On October 11, 2009, Lane was at a Los Angeles restaurant with a friend when she experienced a severe tonic–clonic seizure, went into spasms and blacked out. It was apparently her first such seizure. She was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she apparently stayed for a couple of days before being diagnosed with a lesion on her brain and eventually put on anti-seizure medications and discharged. Lane wrote on her blog that further diagnosis revealed that neurocysticercosis tumors have developed as a result of her contracting cysticercosis
Cysticercosis
Cysticercosis refers to tissue infection after exposure to eggs of Taenia solium, the pork tapeworm. The disease is spread via the fecal-oral route through contaminated food and water, and is primarily a food borne disease. After ingestion the eggs pass through the lumen of the intestine into the...
. This may have caused the seizure.
On July 31, 2011, it was confirmed on This Week in Tech that Lane is seeing tech journalist MG Siegler.