Arthur Smith

Born

1960-11-25

Birthplace

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Biography

Arthur Smith is a Canadian-born American television producer who is the CEO of A. Smith & Co. Prior to launching A. Smith & Co. in November 2000, Smith held the role of Executive Vice President of Programming, Production and News for FOX SPORTS where he launched the network into the cable sports business as well as overseeing what would become the fastest growing television sports network. Smith's responsibilities included supervising production, development, scheduling, and acquisition of all programming, nationally and regionally. While at FOX, Smith launched 22 sports networks and acted as Executive Producer on over 4,500 events and thousands of original hours of programming each year.