He presented his first radio show in 2001 aged 16 working on the launch of Juice FM in Liverpool.
He also presented various weekend and overnight phone in programmes on London based news-talk station LBC around this time.
On 12 March 2007 he started work on Al Gore owned Current TV which had been on air in the US since 2005 and was the second national roll out of the brand around the world on Sky and Virgin Media.
The channel launched in the UK amidst a blaze of media publicity surrounding the former US Vice president’s network.
Smith was the first person to appear on the UK TV channel at launch as the presenter of Google Current and later special documentaries on LGBTQ+ issues, global drugs policy and a live daily current affairs and entertainment show called “Webmash” that aired 2009- 2010.