In addition to the monthly Sacramento PC User Group meeting and the various SIG meetings, there are radio and TV broadcasts that discuss computers that may be helpful to members. I managed to find several, but they are not all verified. If you know of any changes from my list, please let me know. Help me fill in the gaps with other regularly scheduled broadcasts. If a show has gone away, I would like to know that, too.
The oldest running TV program is Computer Chronicles, carried by PBS. It does not appear in the August lineup and I don't know if it's been canceled. It has suffered from being scheduled very late at night.
Most of the shows in the list is on TechTV (formally ZDTV). In Sacramento, you can get TechTV on DISH Channel 191, DirecTV Channel 354, and Strategic Technologies Channel 37. You can also find TechTV on GE Americom Satcom C4, transponder 12, 135 degrees west, 40 degrees elevation. If you are a Comcast subscriber, you should let them know that you want TechTV (if we get Comcast to pick them up, it will be easy for us to bring TechTV personalities to a meeting).
Additional TV programming is produced by CNET. For a while they had several great programs on the SCI-FI channel but these seem to have gone off the air. The remaining programming appear on CNBC and can be seen on most cable or satellite systems. On Comcast Cable, it is channel 49. It also appears on DISH and DirecTV but I don't know the channels.
Most of the TV shows are repeated at least once after the initial play. Some radio programs are also aired multiple times. In addition, some of the radio programs are also broadcast on the Internet in case you get bad reception from a distant radio station.
Radio Programs
Online Tonight
KFBK AM 1530 Weeknights 1AM – 3AM
AM 910 (Oakland) Weeknights 7PM – 9PM
Host: David Lawrence
Online Today
KFBK AM 1530 Sundays 11AM – 1PM
Host: David Lawrence
Computer America
KTKZ AM 1380 or KAHI AM 950 Sunday Afternoon?
Host: Craig Crossman
Into Tomorrow
KAHI AM 950 Sunday Mornings?
Host: Dave Graveline
Everything Computers
KSFO 560 AM (San Francisco) Saturday 10AM to 1PM
Host: Bob O'Donnell
TV Programs
The Computer Chronicles
KVIE Channel 6 Saturdays, Midnight
Host: Stewart Cheifet
Cheifet’s Net Café
KVIE Channel 6 Sundays, 12:30AM
Host: Stewart Cheifet
–Tech TV Programs–
Call for Help, Weekdays 4PM with Leo Laporte
The Screen Savers, Weekdays 6PM with Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton
Big Thinkers, Broadcast times vary with John C. Dvorak
CyberCrime, Fridays, 7:30PM with Alex Wellen and Jennifer London
Fresh Gear, Saturdays 12:30PM with Jim Louderbach and Sumi Das
GameSpot TV, Weekends with Adam Sessler and Kate Botello
Internet Tonight, Weekdays 7PM with Scott Herriott and Michaela Pereira
The Money Machine, Weekdays 8PM with Carmine Gallo
Silicon Spin, Weekdays 8:30PM with John C. Dvorak
Working The Web, Broadcast times vary with Gary Bolles
You Made It, Broadcast times vary with Michaela Pereira
The Edge
CNBC Weekdays, 3PM
Host: Ted David
CNET News.com
CNBC Weekends, 7PM
Hosts: Wendy Walsh and Richard Hart
CNN.dot.com
CNN Saturdays 9:30AM & Sunday 10:30AM
Hosts: James Hattori and Perri Peltz
Tales of the Web
E! Occasional broadcasts
Host: Cindy Margolis
