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Welcome to Tech TV Scrapbook, the podcast that talks to the people, personalities behind the

operations who made the Tech TV Network possible. I'm your host Roger Chang. When people talk about

ZDTV and Tech TV, they often start right on launch day when the network went live,

but a lot of work had to be done beforehand to get all the pieces in position for successful

launch day. Now, getting an insider's perspective on everything that led up to that moment is very

hard to come by. Happily, I'm joined today by the amazingly talented Kate Batello, who along with

Leo Laporte, were the original show hosts of the screen sabers. Thank you so much, Kate, for joining

me today. Let's start off right off the bat. How did you get involved with ZDTV?

So, this is kind of nuts, because I was in the IT department for ZIF Davis.

And at the same time, I was doing theater at night. So, there were a couple of different

gigs, but I was a senior desktop analyst, and I was assigned to do a lot of the office set up.

I worked for the site for a minute. I was their IT person for a little bit. And then when they

decided they were going to launch ZDTV, they set up a new separate office, and I was in their

installing printers and all that kind of stuff. And I was at the printer rehearsing for my Judy

Garland performance, or rehearsal later that night. So, I'm like literally singing Judy Garland

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