Amber MacArthur

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Amber Dawn MacArthur born on June 27, 1976 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island [1] is a Canadian television personality best known for her work as co-host alongside Leo Laporte of Call for Help, a technology help television program, which airs on G4techTV Canada in Canada and on HOW TO Channel in Australia. She hosts commandN, a weekly vidcast which covers technology trends both online and offline. She previously was a co-host of Gadgets and Gizmos with Marc Saltzman and Andy Walker until the show ended production for 2005. Through October 2006, Amber worked on a podcast with her Call for Help co-host Leo Laporte called Inside the Net, which then morphed into net@nite, a Sunday evening live broadcast. She is former host of the G4techTV Canada program, Torrent.

MacArthur is originally from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and currently lives in Toronto. She enjoys running, snowboarding, usability articles, and spontaneous road trips. Her brother is Jeff MacArthur.

1 Career
- 1.1 Previous Experience
- 1.2 Moving on to Citytv
2 References
3 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Previous Experience

MacArthur worked for Microsoft for two years as a web designer.

[edit] Moving on to Citytv

On 28 August 2006, MacArthur announced on her blog<ref>To all the G4TechTV fans: Thanks for two great years! My goodbye video</ref> that she was leaving her position at G4TechTV and would no longer appear on Call For Help, Torrent, or Gadgets and Gizmos. In mid-September, she joined Citytv in Toronto with the title "New Media Specialist", to report on "new media and interactive trends". She first appeared on the station's nightly newscast, CityNews at Six, commenting in another reporter's story on 9/11 conspiracy theories propagated through the Internet. She continues to host CommandN.