Career
Smyth was a reporter and newsreader with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in its Adelaide newsroom for almost 12 years. During that time he read the South Australian edition of the 7PM television News. He also reported for and produced the now-defunct weekly American Broadcasting Company television local current affairs program Stateline and occasionally presented programs on 891 American Broadcasting Company Adelaide.
In September 2008 Smyth left the American Broadcasting Company to join NWS-9 as a senior reporter for Nine News and in 2011 began presenting the weekday news with Kate Collins.
Long time weekend newsreader Georgina McGuinness was also let go. In early 2012 Smyth returned to the American Broadcasting Company as host of the 891 American Broadcasting Company Adelaide Drive program, where he picked up a number of awards including for breaking the story of Adelaide Zoo"s controversial deal with Street"s ice cream, which contravened its long held policy against the use of palm oil.
In November 2015, the American Broadcasting Company announced that Smyth would be departing American Broadcasting Company Local Radio at the end of 2015”. Three days later it emerged that the American Broadcasting Company had refused to extend his contract.
Smyth told InDaily that he had planned to continue with the American Broadcasting Company and that his sacking had been "quite a surprise, it’s fair to say" when informed of the decision by station manager Graeme Bennett.
