Broadcasting
In the early and mid-1990s, Gerhardt was a regular guest on the Al and/or Ed Show (featuring Alan Lerner and Ed Curran) on WLS radio – “The Big 89” – in Chicago. Taking part in a weekly technology segment, he talked about anything from gadgets to trends. Later he worked with Ed Curran as a producer and on a web site called “technogadgets” which was syndicated as a bimonthly segment on ABC radio and TV affiliates in the USA. Gerhardt was also a frequent guest on “Ken Rutkowski's Week Ender TechTalk Show”, also broadcast on WLS. He continued as a technical-information resource on such issues as UNIX/Linux, Y2K, Internet telephony and video, and Broadband applications, and followed Rutkowski when he moved his show from broadcast to webcast.
Late in 1997, Kevin Hill and Gerhardt decided to take the Linux segments they had been doing for Rutkowski's show and create a stand-alone entity. The Linux Show was soon in testing as a daughter program of Rutkowski's TTalk webcast. By mid-1998, the show appeared regularly on Tuesday nights. Prompted by TechTalk's sponsorship affiliation with Microsoft, he and Hill left the TTalk network in 1999 for greater autonomy.
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