CNBC cancels 'The News with Shepard Smith'; former Fox News anchor to depart this month

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CNBC is canceling 'The News with Shepard Smith' and Smith is leaving the network. The former Fox News anchor joined CNBC in 2020 after more than 23 years at Fox News.

“After spending time with many of you and closely reviewing the various aspects of our business, I believe we must prioritize and focus on our core strengths of business news and personal finance,” Sullivan said in the email to employees, CNBC reported. “As a result of this strategic alignment to our core business, we will need to shift some of our priorities and resources and make some difficult decisions.

Sullivan said Smith's show attracted the richest audience of any evening program on cable news, CNBC reported. But the show averaged 222,000 viewers this year, below its 2021 audience, according to Nielsen. For the last three months of 2020, “The News with Shepard Smith” had 280,000 viewers. Competing shows such as"Jesse Watters Primetime" on Fox News Channel, and MSNBC's"The ReidOut" with Joy Reid have attracted 3.4 million and 1.3 million, respectively, Nielsen said.

Smith joined CNBC in July 2020 as the network's chief general news anchor, chief breaking general news anchor, and executive editor of his weeknight show. Prior to that, Smith hosted"Shepard Smith Reporting" from 2013 to 2019 on the Fox News Channel, where he was also chief news anchor and managing editor of the breaking news division.

 

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MSNBC is left extreme, Fox News is right extreme. Shep gives hard news instead of opinion. Hopefully another network hires him. CNN NBCNews CBSNews No one like Shepard Smith. 😔🎥📺🏆❤️🙏🏽🌟 BringBackShepardSmith BringBackTheNews TheNewsTheFactsTheTruth ShepardSmith

Should’ve have went with the lefties!!

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RoswithaNinaus Shep to join CNN to sell Tupperware on his new show at 4am EST.

Bye

I hear all of these liberals out there screaming about Fox News but yet none of their journalists or opinion people can make it in prime time. Cuomo? Lemon? Shep Smith? Chris Wallace? Sounds to me that Fox News is the place to be.

It's like the medias lack of self-control continues to ruin careers and programming.

This was the only fact based news report left 🤦🏼‍♂️

CNBC could cancel themselves.

Time to get rid of these boomers and get some new talent with better ideas

Shepard, Cumo and Chris Wallace to start a lemonade stand

Democratic operative disguised as real news!

IMHO, he’s the only one actually reporting news…instead of twisting and bending over backwards (a la USA TODAY) to form a narrative suiting the networks leanings. So this says a lot about where we’re headed!

up next..CNN

Karma

I’d forgotten about him. Glad to see he’s still around.

Fascism only flies with the bootlicker crowd in faux news

Is there anything like it

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