Brett Larson
Brett Larson (born March 8, 1976,[1] Pleasanton, California) is a reporter. His career has covered all aspects of broadcast: radio, television and Internet. He anchored radio news at 1010 WINS (AM) in New York, and can be heard on the Fox News Radio Network across the United States. Until July 17, 2012 he anchored afternoons on FM News 101.9; however WEMP changed formats to alternative music on July 17, 2012.
Larson also heads "Brett Larson Media" which produces and presents technology related programs that air on several television stations and Internet sites.
Television
TechTV
From 2001 to 2003 he worked for TechTV, a 24-hour cable and satellite channel based in San Francisco, California. The show featured news and programs about computers, technology, and the Internet. Larson mostly appeared on "Call For Help", doing the show's "Mac Tip of the Day". In 2004, TechTV merged with the G4 gaming channel which ultimately dissolved TechTV programming.
CBS and Fox
In 2003 he moved to New York to become the technology and science correspondent with WCBS-TV. While there, he appeared regularly on CBS 2 News This Morning, The CBS Evening News and The Early Show.
From 2007 to 2009, Larson was with WNYW-TV FOX 5 in New York City. His on-air assignments covered a wide range of subjects but he specialized in environmental and technology reports. It was here that he created the interactive web show Good Day Live Online which followed Fox 5's Good Day New York every weekday.
High Tech Toys for the Holidays
In 2004, Larson took over the hosting duties for High Tech Toys for the Holidays, a nationally syndicated program that annually showcases the very latest tech gadgets in time for the holiday shopping season. The show continues to gain audience and currently ranks first or second place for its time slot in almost every market nationwide.
Other Broadcast
He appears regularly on syndicated show Toni On! which airs on Tribune stations. Larson received an Emmy Award for his CBS story on the 50th anniversary of color television. In January, 2011, he contributed a technology segment to the new Early Show on CBS. He made a special appearance as a maitre d' on ABC's All My Children. In addition, Larson is a regular contributor to Nancy Grace's weeknight talk show on cable news channel HLN.
Appearance on CNN
Larson's knowledge of technology was put into question as he appeared on CNN as a technology analyst commenting on the 2014 celebrity pictures hack, for which he erroneously speculated that the popular imageboard website 4chan might be "a systems administrator who knew his way around and how to hack things".[2][3]
Radio
Larson's radio career started at a small radio station while attending San Francisco City College. He then moved on to stations in Reno (Magic 95.5), San Francisco (KBGG 98.1, K101 and KFRC 99.7) and San Jose (KBAY 94.5). He anchored the news at FM News 101.9 in New York and FM News 101.1 in Chicago until July 17, 2012, as both stations changed their formats on this day. Brett can now be heard on SiriusXM radio's Howard 100 and Howard 101, as part of the news team. The Howard Stern news department covers all news related to the Howard Stern show.
Internet
He hosts the Internet program Killer Apps, which can be seen at killerapps.tv and on DirecTV, and writes a tech-focused blog for the Toni On! website. While at Fox 5 New York, Larson produced and hosted Good Day Live, an interactive online web show that followed Good Day New York every morning. This show produced segments and guest interviews and allowed viewers to ask questions and comment online with celebrities such as Liza Minnelli and Justin Bieber who had appeared earlier on Good Day. In 2005, Larson briefly hosted about.com's Gadget blog.
Larson worked as an assistant editor for Macworld magazine from 1999 to 2001. Along with writing a weekly column, he also made appearances on TechTV on behalf of the magazine. In 2001 he left the publication to become the Mac and Apple authority at TechTV.
References
- ↑ "Brett Larson Biography". http://www.imdb.com/''. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
- ↑ Biddle, Sam (September 2, 2014). "A Very Confused CNN Wonders: "Who is 4chan?"". Gawker. Retrieved 2014-09-02.
- ↑ Nguyen, Tina (September 2, 2014). "CNN Tech Analyst Thinks 4Chan Is A Person: 'He May Have Been A Systems Administrator'". Mediaite. Retrieved 2014-09-02.