Career
Smith's broadcast career started as staff writer for WCCO-AM in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He later went to work at WHAS AM/TV in Louisville, Kentucky, and later went to work at KVTV in Sioux City, Iowa before coming to WTVT in 1963. He was named assistant news director of WTVT in 1966. In 1966 he anchored the first color newscast in Tampa. In 1976 he did their first remote live broadcast while reporting from a helicopter hovering 500 feet over a news scene. As news director he was instrumental in increasing the duration of WTVT's news coverage slots - first from 15 to 30 minutes, and then to 60 minutes. He held the dual post of news director and news anchor for 15 years. He left the station in 1991. He then substituted in April 1991 for radio station WMTX morning broadcaster Pat Brooks, and joined the WMTX's Mason Dixon morning show as news anchor. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida on December 16, 2007 from complications from melanoma.
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