Former Fox 5 reporter Rachel Smith takes on new venture

Longtime Las Vegas broadcast amusement reporter Rachel Smith is going beyond TV. Her adjacent task is conscionable that, BEOND.TV. Her “Lights, Camera, Vegas” half-hour amusement debuted Friday.

“I’m truthful excited to motorboat this caller show, which celebrates amusement but with a peculiar absorption connected Las Vegas,” Smith says. “It’s not lone the astir entertaining metropolis successful the world, but a assemblage I emotion and telephone home.”

BEOND.TV is simply a Los Angeles-based broadcast and integer web hosted by seasoned journalists and contented creators astatine the beond.tv website (no “Y” arsenic station’s co-founder Amie Martin misspelled “beyond” successful a spelling bee arsenic a kid).

Smith is focusing connected in-depth interviews with A-list stars successful this caller venture. Usher, who returns to the Colosseum astatine Caesars Palace successful December, is featured connected her premiere episode. The amusement besides features Smith’s clips with Usher, Shania Twain, Paris Hilton and Ryan Reynolds.

Smith spent 15 years arsenic a subordinate of Fox 5’s on-air team. She has won 3 Emmy Awards and is simply a subordinate of the Critics Choice Association, which votes connected the yearly Critics Choice Awards. Smith was portion of Fox 5’s cutbacks of respective seasoned staffers successful September 2020.

“We are thrilled to spouse with Rachel Smith connected this breathtaking caller production,” Carlos Amezcua, co-founder of BEOND.TV and erstwhile Los Angeles quality anchor, said successful a statement. “Rachel is simply a person successful amusement quality with connections to the biggest celebrities and amusement headliners. She’s not lone a highly respected sanction successful the industry, but her emotion of Las Vegas has made her an ambassador for the metropolis she ever champions.”

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