Fox Cable Guy Edges Into the Big Pay Leagues
(Fox News) - Roger Ailes, the chairman of the Fox News Channel, calls Shepard Smith his “go-to guy,” the person he wants leading the channel’s coverage any time news breaks.
Mr. Ailes has put his network’s money where he wants its chief voice to be. Last week, Mr. Smith signed a new contract that will take him, a former local news reporter from Holly Springs, Miss., into financial territory usually occupied only by network news anchors. Although Fox did not release the exact terms of the new deal, an executive briefed on the them said that Mr. Smith, who is 43, had signed a new contract for a little more than three years at a salary of $7 million to $8 million a year.
Mr. Ailes has put his network’s money where he wants its chief voice to be. Last week, Mr. Smith signed a new contract that will take him, a former local news reporter from Holly Springs, Miss., into financial territory usually occupied only by network news anchors. Although Fox did not release the exact terms of the new deal, an executive briefed on the them said that Mr. Smith, who is 43, had signed a new contract for a little more than three years at a salary of $7 million to $8 million a year.
posted by BP News Bureau | 9:55 AM
3 Comments:
Shepard Smith, while being mildly entertaining, is an idiot. Most of the time, he doesn't seem to have a clue what he is saying and just drifts along with the teleprompter.
I guess Ailes wants to make sure that Fox stays a lightweight news organization.
I guess Ailes wants to make sure that Fox stays a lightweight news organization.
Compared to what, CNN? MSNBC?
Why does it have to be compared to anything? I thought Fox's mantra was that they were the news source you can trust. So what are we trusting, that they got their celebrity gossip right? Are we trusting that we will always be able to tune in on the latest smarmy story of the one-legged, incestuous, teenaged molestation victim? Or is it just that when we're tired of all the DNC's agit-prop, we can wheel on over to Fox for some of the RNC's agit-prop?
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