Career
Corbin was hired by TechTV in 2001. She started out as a production assistant, but quickly worked her way up in the company eventually becoming an on-air personality. She became lead anchor for the prime-time news program TechLive. While anchoring for TechLive, Jessica made weekly remote appearances on CNN Headline News. She also was a frequent contributor on The Screen Savers as well as the host of Fresh Gear.
On March 25, 2004, Comcast's G4 gaming channel announced a merger with TechTV. This move became hugely controversial among loyal fans of TechTV. Around May 6, G4 announced the termination of 250 employees from the San Francisco office by July 10, 2004, allowing approximately 80 to 100 employees to transition to G4's main office in Los Angeles, California if they agreed to relocate there.
After the purchase, Corbin went on to host Love's a Trip, a reality television program which aired on the Style Network.
In 2005, she starred as Carolyn in the movie One More Round.
Corbin has also appeared on podcast This Week in Tech episode 11 with former TechTV personalities such as Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Roger Chang and Robert Heron.
On September 26, 2006, Kevin Rose's Revision3 relaunched with new shows and hosts. Jessica Corbin was one of these new additions, sharing hosting duties with Wil Wheaton and fellow TechTV veteran Hahn Choi. InDigital covered the newest gadgets and electronics, but Revision3 decided to discontinue it. The last episode aired on September 26, 2007, with its twenty-sixth episode.
From September 28, 2007 to January 4, 2008, Corbin co-hosted Tekzilla with Patrick Norton. The show, reminiscent of The Screen Savers, discusses gadgets, tech tips, and do-it-yourself projects. Her most recent guest-appearance on the show was January 18, 2008.
On January 16, 2008, Jessica debuted as the host of the new The Digg Reel podcast playing the top-rated videos submitted on the social news website digg.com. She then moved on to another new Revision3 show, popSiren, along with Sarah Lane. On the July 10, 2008 episode of popSiren, Sarah Lane announced that Jessica had left the Revision3 network.
On September 19, 2012 Jessica appeared on episode 70 of Triangulation on the TWiT.tv network which the topic was all about her.
Read more about this topic: Jessica Corbin
Famous quotes containing the word career:
““Never hug and kiss your children! Mother love may make your children’s infancy unhappy and prevent them from pursuing a career or getting married!” That’s total hogwash, of course. But it shows on extreme example of what state-of-the-art “scientific” parenting was supposed to be in early twentieth-century America. After all, that was the heyday of efficiency experts, time-and-motion studies, and the like.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
“Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman’s natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.”
—Ann Oakley (b. 1944)
“What exacerbates the strain in the working class is the absence of money to pay for services they need, economic insecurity, poor daycare, and lack of dignity and boredom in each partner’s job. What exacerbates it in upper-middle class is the instability of paid help and the enormous demands of the career system in which both partners become willing believers. But the tug between traditional and egalitarian models of marriage runs from top to bottom of the class ladder.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)