Posted on 11/03/2022 4:17:59 PM PDT by Jonty30
NBCUniversal’s CNBC has canceled “The News with Shepard Smith,” its primetime general news show, to refocus on business and market coverage.
The network announced the news Thursday in an e-mail to CNBC employees. Smith will be leaving the network later this month, according to a person familiar with the matter. CNBC will replace Smith’s primetime show with markets coverage until a new live show focusing on business news launches in 2023.
“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,” CNBC President KC Sullivan said in an e-mail to CNBC employees. “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.”
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Couldn’t have happen to a nicer “guy”.
Good for the putz!
Or in Shep’s case, much more likely the pillow.
Right - seems something else would be a reason...he’s almost certainly capable of reading copy about business focused news stories instead of what he was doing if “refocusing” on business news was their vision.
CNN cuts Acosta would also be a much celebrated headline,
Where have you been?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4100816/posts
Jim Acosta To Be FIRED From CNN, Get Woke Go Broke
This thread is gay.
oh.
darn.
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