Bill McCuddy is a comedian, and was previously an
American cable news network
entertainment
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousa ...
reporter.
McCuddy, who had previously been employed in the field of advertising, began his broadcasting career in 1994 after winning a talk show host contest on
CNBC
CNBC (formerly Consumer News and Business Channel) is an American basic cable business news channel. It provides business news programming on weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time, while broadcasting talk sho ...
featuring unknown participants. His reward was a contract to host a program that would air on
America's Talking
America's Talking was an American short-lived cable television channel focused mainly on talk based programming, created by NBC and spun off from economic channel CNBC. It was launched on July 4, 1994, and was carried in 10 million American house ...
, a CNBC spin-off cable channel that would launch shortly thereafter. After his stint as the host of ''Wake Up America'' on the fledgling network, McCuddy joined
Fox News
The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owne ...
in 1996 as a regular contributor to various programming on the network. In June 2007 Fox News announced it would not renew McCuddy's contract.
For a brief time McCuddy was also a writer for
Saturday Night Live
''Saturday Night Live'' (often abbreviated to ''SNL'') is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and Peacock (streaming service), Peacock. ...
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Since 2012, McCuddy has co-hosted the roundtable movie review series "Talking Pictures on Demand" with
Neil Rosen (journalist), Neil Rosen and Lisa Rosman for Time Warner Cable. In August 2015, McCuddy and Rosen launched the "Sitting Around Talking Movies" podcast. Bill is a founding member of the Whiskey Heaven club in Bridgehampton, NY.
American male journalists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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