Arthur Smith is a Canadianborn 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 Smiths 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 4500 events and thousands of original hours of programming each year