Categories: OLD Media Moves

Harry Smith might be coming to CNBC

Claire Atkinson of The New York Post is reporting that former CBS News anchor Harry Smith is near a deal to join business news network CNBC for a talk show.

Atkinson writes that the new talk show “is almost certain to replace ‘The Kudlow Report’ at 7 p.m., The Post has learned.

“Smith is already signed to NBCUniversal.

“‘If we could figure out a way to utilize his skills to serve our very affluent and highly educated audience I’m sure we’d be interested,’ said a CNBC spokesman.

“‘The Kudlow Report’ is off roughly 60 percent in its key 25- to 54-year-old target audience.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.