Shep Smith is returning to cable news to anchor a new show

After leaving Fox News dramatically last Fall, Shepard Smith is returning to cable news at one of Fox News’ competitors. Watch below:

From the Daily Beast:

The consummate newsman has signed a deal with CNBC to host a nightly evening news broadcast, a person with direct knowledge of the deal confirmed to The Daily Beast on Wednesday.

Smith’s hard-news show, appropriately titled The News with Shepard Smith, will air at 7 p.m., following Jim Cramer’s Mad Money, and is set to premiere sometime before the election. The former longtime Fox anchor had been in talks with MSNBC, CNN, and Vice before ultimately signing with the financial news outlet.

In a statement, first published in the Wall Street Journal, Smith said he is “honored to continue to pursue the truth, both for CNBC’s loyal viewers and for those who have been following my reporting for decades in good times and in bad.” Additionally, he praised the business-centric network’s “vision for a fact-based, hourlong evening news program with the mission to cut through the static to deliver facts, in context and with perspective.”

The Smith signing is seemingly part of NBCUniversal’s renewed push to make CNBC—normally a markets-focused outlet—competitive in the hours after the closing bell.

This is interesting because there were reports that CNBC was looking to become a little more right-wing in order to provide an alternative to the liberal news outlets on cable. Of course, Shep Smith wouldn’t be considered right-wing by the vast majority of Fox News viewers, or our readers, but compared to the left-wing loons on MSNBC or CNN, he might be more of a center-right guy to the lefties…. interesting times.


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