The News with Shepard Smith
The News with Shepard Smith is an American news television program hosted by Shepard Smith that airs on CNBC. The program, which premiered on September 30, 2020, is a general interest news show that airs at 7 PM ET. The show is the first hosted by Smith since his departure from Fox News in 2019. It also marked the return of a nightly newscast to CNBC since May 2004. Content. Smith has stated that the program is meant to be "fact-based" and will not include analysis or opinion. Smith has stated of the show : "We’re going to have journalists, reporters, sound and video. We’re going to have newsmakers and experts ... but no pundits." There are many different short segments on the show such as “Around the World” where Shepard Smith states different things that are happening around the world within 80 seconds. Another one is “Coast to Coast”, similar idea as “Around the World” but there is no visual time limit and it is only within the USA. “On The Money” has financial news including at the end of the segment where you can see how the US stock market finished for  the day. A big segment of the show is the “Bottom of the Hour Top of the News” segment. The bottom of the hour is at the :30 mark, or in other words, halfway through the hour. During this segment, Shepard Smith highlights the top story of the day. A common line to introduce this segment is “I’m Shepard Smith on CNBC! It’s the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news.” There is no exact time for any of these besides “Bottom of the Hour Top of the News,” which happens halfway through the  show, or at the :30 mark. Episodes. The first episode of the show drew 373,000 viewers, "behind major cable news networks but a boost for CNBC for the time period." The first episodes of the show were being shot in a temporary studio. This studio is a boxed off area in Studio A at CNBC Global Headquarters. This studio was used until construction on a dedicated set was completed. The new set debuted on October 28, 2020.