Smiley on ABC, NPR

Former Black Entertainment Television host Tavis Smiley has signed with ABC News as a contributor to “Primetime Thursday” and “Good Morning America.”
Smiley, a political commentator for “The Tom Joyner Morning Show,” distributed by ABC Radio, also is developing a morning news program for NPR. The network hopes to launch the program, which will be targeted to African-American listeners, by the end of this year.