Kate Botello

Kate Botello is a former American television personality best known for her work on the San Francisco, California-based ZDTV (later known as TechTV and now known as G4). She began her television career co-hosting the technology-oriented television program The Screen Savers alongside Leo Laporte. In 2000, she left The Screen Savers to co-host Extended Play, a video game review show, with Adam Sessler. She also co-hosted a TechTV video on computer basics with Chris Pirillo.

Botello left TechTV in 2002 and moved to Brooklyn, New York where she worked on Broadway as a freelance actor, singer and playwright. In her time there, she starred as Judy Garland in the cabaret musical, Judy Garland and the Uninvited Company and the annual holiday musical, Judy's Christmas Garland. In November 2005, Botello moved to Traverse City, Michigan where she now owns a web design company.

In June 2011, Botello began hosting Weird News Radio, a weekly audio podcast focusing on weird news, with Jim Harold. She is also on the air from 7 to 10 AM Eastern on "Classical IPR", part of Interlochen, Michigan-based Interlochen Public Radio - WIAA (FM) in Interlochen Michigan.