UPDATED, with additional numbers: The debut of The News with Shepard Smith on Wednesday drew 373,000 viewers, which is well behind major cable news networks but a boost for CNBC for the time period.
A network spokesperson said that the premiere viewership was 2.6 times higher than the September time period average…
When Shepard Smith returns to the anchor chair Wednesday, he'll be occupying one of his former time slots, 7 p.m. on weekdays, but in a very different environment, CNBC. He also wants The News with Shepard Smith to be a very different show than what you'd get on Fox News, his old employer, or any other cable news…
Shepard Smith’s nightly CNBC newscast will premiere on Sept. 30, with Sanford Cannold as senior executive producer and Sally Ramirez as executive producer.
The 7 PM program will broadcast from CNBC’s headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. The network announced in July that Smith would be joining the network, after 23…
Shepard Smith is joining CNBC as anchor of an evening news program, ending speculation of his next plans after his departure from Fox News last year.
The newscast, The News with Shepard Smith, will air Monday through Friday at 7pm ET, starting in the fall.
Smith will be based at CNBC’s headquarters in Engelwood…
MSNBC is talking with former Fox News anchor Shepard Smith about joining the network, according to a report in The Daily Beast, as speculation abounds that the channel will shuffle its lineup as the 2020 election nears.
Smith is being courted by MSNBC president Phil Griffin. Other networks also have been interested in…
Bill Hemmer will anchor an hour long newscast on Fox News Channel starting in January, filling the time slot after Shepard Smith’s departure.
Fox News announced Hemmer as the permanent anchor in the 3 p.m. ET hour on Monday.
Bill Hemmer Reports will launch on Jan. 20. Hemmer will exit Fox News Channel’s America’s…
Jeff Zucker, WarnerMedia chairman of news and sports and head of CNN, said he is “very open” to talking to Fox News alum Shepard Smith about a role on CNN.
The exec made the comments in a conversation with CNN media reporter and host Brian Stelter at Citizen, a day-long event hosted in New York by the news…
Donald Trump may be rubbing salt into the wound of Shepard Smith suddenly exiting Fox News Channel today, but the anchor could be back soon-ish to shine a spotlight of truth on the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host.
“The decision to leave was Shep’s and his alone," said Smith's PR representative in a statement after the…
UPDATED with more details:Shepard Smith is stepping down from Fox News Channel, effective with Friday afternoon’s edition of Shepard Smith Reporting.
The anchor has been a frequent target of President Donald Trump’s attacks, after Smith had been critical of the president at certain points in his administration. Smith…
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…
