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''The Lab with Leo Laporte'' was a technology-based television program hosted by Leo Laporte. Episode #1 debuted on April 23, 2007 on G4techTV Canada and HOW TO Channel Australia. The program was produced by ''Greedy Productions'' in Vancouver, BC. Production was overseen by the show's producer(s), Matt Harris (ep.1-180) and Marc Lefebvre (ep. 181-195). The show also now airs on Citytv after Rogers Media acquired control of the stations, and episode segments were also posted to Google Video several weeks after initial airing. ==History== On November 25, 2006, Leo Laporte announced on his KFI radio show that production of ''Call for Help'' would move from Toronto to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Rogers Communications, the owner of G4techTV Canada, contracted with ''Greedy Productions'' to produce the show. Laporte also announced that the show would be renamed ''The Lab with Leo Laporte'' and would be recorded in 16:9 High Definition (HD). ''The Lab'' was titled as such due to ''Call for Help'' and its trademarks remaining the property of the American G4 network and their corporate owner, Comcast, which had broken off contract talks with Laporte acrimoniously when the May 2004 purchase of the network was announced. Laporte traveled to Vancouver from his home in Petaluma, California monthly to record 15 episodes of the show. Episodes were typically recorded from Tuesday through Friday of the four-day "shoot week." Four shows were recorded live to XDCAM HD disc Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday; three episodes were recorded on Friday. One goal of recording in HD was to attract a U.S.-based distributor. The American G4 ran the series for a short four-month period in 2007, but intentionally hampered it by airing it in a mid-morning timeslot without any later runs, meaning most of the show's audience was at work. On March 6, 2008, Leo Laporte announced on net@Nite #46 and via Twitter.com that Rogers had canceled ''The Lab'' after 195 episodes. He announced that as a result, he would be "ramping up video production from TWiT", his Petaluma-based netcast network of programming.〔(Leo Laporte's official Twitter.com account ) "''Rogers just canceled The Lab - reruns will continue until the end of the decade. I'll be ramping up video production from TWiT now.''"〕 The last episode of The Lab aired on August 1, 2008. Despite the severe aging of the episodes and the content within which does not apply to technology past Windows Vista or the original iPhone, as of September 2015, G4 Tech TV Canada continues to run the series in repeats on weekday mornings, as the Canadian-based production helps the network both meet Canadian content guidelines and the bare requirements of the technology remit required by their Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission operating agreement. The How-To Channel in Australia chose not to air the remaining episodes 〔(Lab with Leo off TV in Australia - Let us See the Remaining Episodes )〕 citing a lack of viewers, which is necessary to sustain airing the final episodes.〔(Response from How-To Channel Australia Regarding The Lab with Leo )〕 In late April the following note was posted on their official site: *Please note that production on the show has ceased. We are no longer accepting tech question submissions or replying to general info emails. *〔(Show production ceased message )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Lab with Leo Laporte」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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