CNBC's the News With Shepard Smith Stars September 30th

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          The previously announced CNBC news program , "The News with Shepard Smith" has received a launch date.   The program was set to start in the fall after being announced in July

         CNBC announced on Monday that the program will start on Wednesday September 30th at 7PMET.

Mark your calendar. Don't miss the premiere of The News with Shepard Smith! Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. ET on @cnbc. 📺 👀 📅 https://t.co/sUcW9AKhYU pic.twitter.com/GwEncBZTCL

— The News with Shepard Smith (@thenewsoncnbc) August 24, 2020

             The program will air live at 7pmet, weeknights,  and repeating at 12am and 4amet.

Press release after the jump

Shepard Smith Coming to CNBC

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          Former Fox News anchor, Shepard Smith, is coming to CNBC as a general news anchor.  CNBC announced Wednesday that Smith will be anchoring a new 7pm ET newscast bringing back "The News" title,  a name that was  used on MSNBC with Brian Williams from 1996-2002, when the program moved to CNBC in 2002 until 2004, when Williams was preparing to take the NBC Nightly News anchor desk.

           Smith is joining CNBC as their general news and chief general breaking news anchor. He joins after leaving Fox News Channel in October of 2019 ,after 23 years being their chief news anchor , appearing for breaking news on both Fox News Channel and the FOX network. He anchored programs like "Fox Report", "Studio B" and "Shepard Smith Reporting".   

     CNBC has been running a "Special Report" on the network since January in the 7PM ET slot , this will  be replaced by "The News with Shepard Smith" sometime later this year. 

       Thoughts:  It is interesting to see that CNBC, a business news focused channel , at least in daytime, is interested in going into general news, though as stated above that isn't out of their wheel.  The idea of having a news show that might be a better counter weight to what the cable news channels could bring in viewers who want the news of the day without any of the excess you get on CNN or MSNBC.  Shepard Smith  is  a good news anchor  and makes for a good choice for a lead anchor , especially if there is a big news story that needs to be brought.

  You can read the press release after the Jump

The TV Hot list for March 5th 2013

 The TV Hot List
 
  1. PBS News Hour 7 days a week ?
     It's been debated before, that why doesn't PBS News hour air on weekends?  Well , that could soon be a possiblity , though it would take some work  The Newyork Times   reports more here.


2. Fox Sports National Network
   This has been widely speculated , but now announced  that Fox will be launching a national sports Network.  It will be called Fox Sports 1 (odd name , unless there will be a Fox Sports 2?)  a question left open is.Will Newscorp be launching a new channel space for this , or replacing FOX Soccer, Fuel or even Speed?   read more here

3. CNBC Reality TV
  Just in case , you were looking for more reality series , well CNBC , the business news channel is now going that way. read more here

Review of the Media on the Iowa Caucus

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  By Joshuaonline Staff

CNN 
     CNN seems to pride themselves on their election coverage . This year , the network  moved it's election coverage from New York to it's Atlanta HQ.  It also added a bunch more graphics and gadgets to it's use age. Using heavy hitter anchors, Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer ,John King and their "Best Political team on TV" CNN made their election coverage interesting.
   Goods:  CNN kept the coverage fair and kept going through out the night waiting for every vote to be counted.  Its setup was great overall.
  Bads: CNN did use too many things, even though the GCI "Weebles" seem like a good idea it's just something for mockery. The "Flex " touch screens maybe a bit much and twitter is good but trying to use it in coverage may be too much.
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