Fox News Channel’s Shepard Smith vowed – before America and Jon Stewart – to monitor Congress for any opposition to the 2020 renewal of the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. Smith asked Stewart who could possibly be against such funding, then, looking into the camera, addressed viewers, “If it’s one of your…

The much-proclaimed wall between opinion and reporting at Fox News got topped with some barbed wire today as opinionator Sean Hannity called news man Shepard Smith “clueless” about how the other half works. “While Shep is a friend with political views I do not share,” the Hannity host tweeted this afternoon, “and…

Shepard Smith had another one of his trademark, great-TV, Fox News-rogue moments yesterday when, already in conversation with colleague Chris Wallace, he got news that as many as eight people were in that controversial 2016 Donald Trump Jr. meeting. At one point, he even seemed to directly address his Fox viewers to…

Fox News Channel has shelved its North Carolina town hall special that had been set for The First 100 Days at 7 PM tonight to make way for continuing coverage of today’s attack in London. Chief News Anchor Shep Smith will anchor the hour. British Prime Minister Theresa May was evacuated from Parliament at about 2:30…

CNN Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta got support in an unlikely quarter today after Donald Trump singled him out for ridicule during the president’s first news conference without his foreign-dignitary training wheels. Fox News Channel’s Shep Smith, who was among the TV journalists who devoted large swaths…

Among the outlets covering today’s news conference, at which Marin County Assistant Deputy Chief Coroner Lt. Keith Boyd said Robin Williams’ personal assistant found him hanged in his bedroom, were several TV news outlets from which have come apologies for their coverage of the actor’s death. ABC News apologized this…

When news of the LAX shooting broke, more viewers tuned to Shepard Smith and his Fox News Deck to find out what was going on than to CNN and MSNBC combined, during the peak hours of the breaking news, 10-1 PM PT. That's in keeping with FNC's position relative to its cable news competition in that block of time during…

Just over two months after announcing that Megyn Kelly would be moving to primetime later this year, Fox News Channel today made the first move of its anchor pieces. The cable news network said Thursday that as part of a new multi-year deal with FNC inked earlier this summer, Shepard Smith would be moving on from the…

Fox News Channel today was showing live coverage of an Arizona police chase that ended when the suspect fled the scene, pulled out a handgun and committed suicide by shooting himself in the head — before Fox News could stop the helicopter footage from hitting the air. Fox News cut away from the local station feed…

Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters will anchor ABC’s live coverage of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton beginning at 4 AM ET on April 29, followed by a live West Coast edition of Good Morning America hosted by Robin Roberts live from Westminster Abbey. The wedding caps a bunch of Royal Wedding programming…

I’ve learned a bit more about Fox News lead news anchor Shepard Smith’s new multi-year deal with the cable channel. Despite reports that it runs through 2013, I hear that it actually kicks in next year when his current pact expires and runs through 2014. And Smith is getting a salary bump over the $7 million – $8…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox News Channel’s signature news anchor Shepard Smith has signed a new multi-year  deal to continue as the channel’s lead news anchor as well as anchor of FOX Report and Studio B. Smith’s most recent pact with Fox News inked in 2007 was for 3 years and nets him $7 million-8 million a year. Fox News is…