Smerconish Joins CNN

Michael Smerconish is joining CNN to host his own Saturday morning program from New York.

Smerconish has been a contributor to MSNBC and guest host for Hardball. He also hosts a SiriusXM Radio show, The Michael Smerconish Program, writes a column for the Philadelphia Inquirer—both of which will continue—and is working on his sixth book.

The new show will be live and will be a talk and news interview show, according to CNN.

Smerconish said in a statement that he thought the content of his show would be "perfectly suited for CNN’s non-ideological brand.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.