Shepard Smith Is Heading to CNBC

By Christine Zosche 

Shepard Smith is returning to cable news just in time for the election, but his new home isn’t where you might expect. (TVNewser)

CNBC has signed Smith, a former Fox News journalist, to anchor a new one-hour evening news program, the network said Wednesday. (WSJ)

CNBC said in a news release on Wednesday that the new show, titled The News With Shepard Smith, would air Monday to Friday at 7 p.m. beginning later this year, but that Smith would join the network effective Monday. Smith will have the title of chief general news anchor, chief breaking news anchor and executive editor of his show. (Politico)

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Smith stunned viewers when he left Fox News last October, saying he asked the network to let him out of his contract. Though he had been with the right-leaning news operation since its 1996 inception, he began sparring with Tucker Carlson and other Trump-friendly hosts near the end of his tenure at Fox News. (HuffPost)

Smith had worked at Fox News for 23 years, most recently as chief news anchor. (NYT)

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