Former Fox News Anchor Shepard Smith Will Join CNBC News

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Former Fox News anchor Shepard Smith has agreed to take a job at CNBC.

Smith, who abruptly announced his resignation from Fox News in October, will reportedly anchor a new one-hour evening news program titled The News with Shepard Smith.

The show, which will debut in the fall, will fill the 7-8 p.m. time slot on the cable news business channel.

This is one of the most coveted and important time slots for cable news, so CNBC giving Smith a primetime slot is certainly significant.

Smith said in a statement that 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.”

He added that he believes the network has a “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.”

“Information is coming at us from every direction,” CNBC Chairman Mark Hoffman said in a statement. “If we’re not careful, life-altering decisions will be made based on half-truth, rumor, misdirection, or worse. We aim to deliver a nightly program that, in some small way, looks for the signal in all the noise.”

Hoffman noted that the addition of Smith will be the only shake-up to the network’s current lineup.

He said that the former Fox News anchor will “serve as the perfect bridge between CNBC’s daytime investor-focused news programming and the network’s aspirational business-oriented entertainment programs in prime time.”

Smith worked at Fox News for roughly 23 years before abruptly announcing his resignation last October.

In early October, a bombshell report came out speculating that management at Fox News had been experiencing a “Trump identity crisis” over the president’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

A so-called “whistleblower” filed a complaint alleging potential illegal actions took place on Trump’s July 25 call.

Trump reportedly asked the Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, over shady business dealings with a Ukrainian gas company.

This reportedly led to a major feud on-air between Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Smith.

Sources who took part in the meeting said that Fox warned Smith to stop attacking Trump and his colleagues or he could be fired.

Here’s what the report said:

The schism was evident this week as a feud erupted between afternoon anchor Shepard Smith and prime-time host Tucker Carlson.

It started Tuesday when Fox legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano told Smith on-air that Trump committed a “crime” by pressuring Ukraine’s president to get dirt on Biden. That night, Carlson brought on former Trump lawyer Joe diGenova, who called Napolitano a “fool” for claiming Trump broke the law.Yesterday, Smith lashed back, calling Carlson “repugnant” for not defending Napolitano on air. (Trump himself is said to turn off Fox at 3 p.m. when Shep Smith airs.)

Seeking to quell the internecine strife before it carried into the third day, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and president Jay Wallace communicated to Smith this morning to stop attacking Carlson, a person briefed on the conversation said.

“They said if he does it again, he’s off the air,” the source said. 

Weeks after the alleged Fox meeting, Smith announced he was leaving the network.

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