David lawrence
Online Tonight
New media expert David Lawrence is heard nightly as the wacky, eclectic and highly opinionated host of The David Lawrence Show, and weekend OnlineTonight, both nationally syndicated radio talk shows that revolves around pop culture and the high-tech lifestyle. The award-winning shows combine
entertainment, information, interviews and news with the speed and humor of a Top-40 morning show. The three-hour daily call-in shows air Monday through Saturday from 10 PM to 1 AM ET, with the Saturday night edition repeated on Sunday evenings from 10 PM to 1 AM ET, and the shows are heard on over 80 AM radio stations, as well as on XM Radio Open Road XM 171.
The Emmy-award winning and Clio-nominated Lawrence is deeply rooted in the music industry as well, and also anchors The Net Music Countdown. Syndicated on over 125 radio stations in partnership with United Stations, the shows countdown the hottest hits on the Internet. The show is based on in-house research, and those charts are licensed as their eTracks Charts by AllAccess.com, for which Lawrence edits the weekly Internet/Digital Music tracking. The NMC eTracks Charts are widely considered the official music charts of the Internet. Reporters to the eTracks include Apple's iTunes Music Store, AandE.com Radio, About Radio, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, BellSouth.com, Bolt Radio, B&N Radio, CDNow.com, Gracenote/CDDB, Launch.Yahoo.com, MusicMatch.co, Radio Free Virgin, Radio Lycos, Real One, Radio@AOL, The RadioAMP Network, and over 40 other performance licensed Internet sales and streaming outlets.
Lawrence is at the forefront of the podcasting revolution, having delivered daily RealAudio and MP3 "podcasts" via email from early 1994. Both of his radio shows sport their own podcasts, and Lawrence counts over 350 Fortune 500 and private companies as podcasting clients, either as a podcast talent, producer, designer or consultant. Each night, he voices over 25 daily podcast episodes for clients, and frequently speaks at events, including the NAB and the Portable Media Expo, on honing the skills necessary to be an efficient, professional and profitable podcast talent.
Lawrence has been on radio for over 30 years as a top rated air personality on stations like WMAL, WMZQ and WRQX/Washington DC, WGAR, WGCL, and WDMT/Cleveland, KC101/New Haven, WTAE/Pittsburgh and WNCI and WLVQ/Columbus. He is a founding member and was executive producer of the legendary radio comedy ensemble, the American Comedy Network. He wrote the best-selling Learn HTML on The Macintosh, the first web design book exclusively for Macintosh users.
His is the voice of America Online's customer service lines, as well as the voice of over 1500 other interactive voice response telephone systems - he is one of the most often heard voices in the world, and is also a SAG and AFTRA actor, starring on television and in films, including the webisodic hit, Goodnight Burbank as Frank, the station manager - his past theatre and voice work include originating the role of Charles Bukowski in Sacred Fools' LA's award-winning Bukowsical!, Potter in It's A Wonderful Life, the role of El Gallo in The Fantasticks, as well as parts in The Children's Hour, The Good Doctor, Born Yesterday, The Fall of the House of Usher and starred as Barry Champlain in Talk Radio. He has performed on stage at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and is a lifelong member of Mensa.
Lawrence makes regular appearances as an industry commentator on G4, CNN, FOX, CBS, MS-NBC, and Tribune broadcasting outlets as well as the CBC and the BBC, where he is a featured expert on Radio 5 Live's Up All Night. He has delivered keynote addresses, inservice teaching and has served as both moderator and panel member at conferences ranging from MacWorld, CES, FOSE and COMDEX to The Micropayment Conference, Gnomedex, the Podcasting and Portable Media Expo and the NAB. His dozens of award winning web sites include work featured in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian, the home page for America Online CEO Steve Case, Quincy Jones' Qradio.net site (nominated for a WIRED Reader Rant award), and the AMD Professional Gamer's League site. You can reach him at david@onlinetonight.com or at
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