Richard Hart (journalist)

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Richard Hart was a staple of Bay Area television throughout the 1980's on the popular "Evening Magazine". EM aired at 7:30 pm nightly, with co-host Jan Yanehiro and showcased some of the interesting and often technology-based activities and happenings around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Richard Hart created and hosted The Discovery Channel television show The Next Step. He later hosted several programs for CNET TV including C|net Central (CNET's first project which aired on the Scifi Channel), and CNET News.com which aired weekly on CNBC.

After a hiatus of several years, Richard Hart is now in production of the sequel to The Next Step, called "Next Step 2.0". Distribution is scheduled to occur early in 2007. Several clips from this project have begun appearing on YouTube.

For several years, Hart has been the MC for an annual contest called the Mind Duel. Hosted by Wonderfest, Festival of Science, in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Mind Duel pits scientists and high school students together in a battle of wits.