Editing Kate Botello (section)

==Career==
Botello was born in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]] and raised in [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]].<ref name=Screensavers>{{cite web |url=http://www2.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/dish/story/0%2C3656%2C2184868%2C00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990930011544/http://www2.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/dish/story/0,3656,2184868,00.html |title=Focus On... Kate |publisher=[[ZDTV]] |archive-date=September 30, 1999 |access-date=April 18, 2024 |url-status=dead}}</ref> She graduated high school in [[Mendocino, California]] and studied theater in [[San Francisco State University]].<ref name=Screensavers/><ref name=TechTV>{{cite web |url=http://www.techtv.com/aboutus/onairhosts/story/0%2C4840%2C2425679%2C00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001017145231/http://www.techtv.com/aboutus/onairhosts/story/0,4840,2425679,00.html |title=On-Air Hosts: Kate Botello |publisher=[[TechTV]] |archive-date=October 17, 2000 |access-date=January 27, 2024 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Following a series of temp jobs, she joined [[Ziff Davis]] as a tech support staffer. Botello's [[Judy Garland]] impression while installing a printer caught the attention of [[Leo Laporte]], who offered her a co-hosting position on the technology-oriented television program ''[[The Screen Savers]]''.<ref name=TechTV/> In 1999, Botello and Laporte were described as "the two most popular personalities on the only 24-hour national cable channel devoted exclusively to computers and the Internet".<ref>{{cite news |last=Hunt |first=Dennis |title=Technology's the star on ZDTV: The nation's fastest-growing cable network doesn't rate with Nielsen but clicks with Web |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |location=[[McLean, Virginia]] |pages=03.D |date=November 30, 1999 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/408845344 |access-date=September 2, 2013|id={{ProQuest|408845344}} }}</ref> When the pair appeared at a promotional event in [[York, Pennsylvania]] that year: "Geeks swarmed the local electronics store where Kate Botello and Leo Laporte were signing autographs. Security had to be called to help guide the two computer advice experts to their car."<ref>{{cite news |title=GEEK TV: ITS TARGET AUDIENCE LOVES CABLE STATION ZDTV, WHICH COMBINES THE IMMEDIACY OF TELEVISION WITH THE IMPROVISATION OF THE WEB |newspaper=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] |pages=C3 |date=June 13, 1999 |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PG&p_theme=pg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB48FF5C1C44CDB&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |access-date=September 2, 2013}}</ref>

In 2000, Botello left ''The Screen Savers'' to co-host ''GameSpot TV'', a video game review show, with [[Adam Sessler]]. In February 2001, the show was renamed ''[[X-Play|Extended Play]]''. She also co-hosted a TechTV video on computer basics with [[Chris Pirillo]].

Botello left TechTV in 2002 and moved to [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]] where she worked on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] as a freelance actor, singer and playwright. In her time there, she starred [[Off-Broadway]] as Judy Garland in the [[cabaret]] musical, ''Judy Garland and the Uninvited Company'' and the annual holiday musical, ''Judy's Christmas Garland''. The cabaret show later toured other cities. A critic wrote that "Botello nails Garland's familiar speaking voice, singing voice and facial expressions".<ref>{{cite news |last=Damiano |first=Mary |title=TWO ACTRESSES DEFTLY STRING TOGETHER GARLAND'S LIFE |newspaper=[[South Florida Sun]] |date=March 8, 2007 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/387737607 |access-date=September 2, 2013|id={{ProQuest|387737607}} }}</ref>

In November 2005, Botello moved to [[Traverse City, Michigan|Traverse City]], [[Michigan]] where she and Raymond Weigel founded Traverse City Web Design.

In June 2011, Botello began hosting Weird News Radio,<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web |url=http://weirdnewsradio.com/about-the-weird-news-radio-podcast-jim-harold-kate-botello/ |title=About Weird News Radio |access-date=September 2, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921201042/http://weirdnewsradio.com/about-the-weird-news-radio-podcast-jim-harold-kate-botello/ |archive-date=September 21, 2013}}</ref> a weekly audio podcast, with Jim Harold.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> She is also on the air from 7 to 10&nbsp;am Eastern on "Classical IPR", part of [[Interlochen Public Radio]], [[WIAA (FM)]], [[Interlochen, Michigan]]. Her latest endeavor is "Showtunes with Kate Botello" airing on Classical IPR, Sunday evenings at 7&nbsp;pm EST.<ref>[http://interlochenpublicradio.org/programs/show-tunes-kate-botello Show Tunes with Kate Botello | Interlochen]</ref>