Tom Snyder
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Thomas James Snyder (May 12, 1936 – July 29, 2007) was an American television presenter, news anchor, and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows Tomorrow (NBC television network in the 1970s and 1980s) and The Late Late Show on the CBS Television Network in the 1990s.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Snyder was also the pioneer of the primetime News Update, which was a one-minute capsule of news updates in primetime.
Early life
Snyder was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Frank and Marie Snyder, who were of German, Cornish, and Irish descent. He was raised in Catholic upbringing, attending St. Agnes Elementary School and graduating from Jesuit-run Marquette University High School. He then attended Marquette University, after which he had intended to study medicine and become a doctor.
Personal life
Snyder wasn't just a model train enthusiast but also a car enthusiast. He would occasionally talk about latest vehicles he owned as well as cars from the 1950s and 1960s that he admired or admired in his teens and teens. David Letterman gave him a white 1960 Cadillac Series 62 convertible as a going-away gift when Snyder left The Late Late Show in 1999.
Newscasting career
Since he was a kid, Snyder has loved radio, but he switched from pre-med to journalism at some point. He told Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Tim Cuprisin that broadcasting became more important to him than attending classes, and he skipped a lot of them. Snyder began his career as a radio reporter at WRIT-AM (unrelated to the present-day FM station) in Milwaukee, now WJYI-AM and in Kalamazoo (where John Fetzer was fired in the 1950s). He served at the Savannah, Georgia AM station WSAV (now WBMQ) for a time.
Snyder began working on television in the 1960s, and he wrote about traveling cross-country in an early Corvair from Atlanta to Los Angeles around 1963. He started working in a news role in KTLA for a year before being hired as a news anchor for KYW-TV (now WKYC-TV) in Cleveland in 1964. Snyder continued to Philadelphia for five years after Westinghouse Broadcasting returned KYW-TV to Philadelphia as a result of an FCC ruling.
Snyder returned to Los Angeles in July 1970 and joined NBC News, who assigned him to anchor the 6:00 p.m. (Pacific time) weeknight newscast on KNBC. And after NBC unveiled him in this capacity in October 1973, Snyder continued to serve as host alongside Tom Brokaw, Jess Marlow, and Paul Moyer at the KNBC anchor desk. Kelly Lange, another KNBC broadcaster, later became Snyder's regular substitute guest host on the Tomorrow show before the program's recruitation of co-host Rona Barrett in 2010. In late 1974, Snyder moved to New York City, taking the Tomorrow program with him, and remaining involved in politics, anchoring weeknight newscasts on WNBC-TV until 1977, and Sunday broadcasts of NBC Nightly News during 1975 and 1976.
After ending Tomorrow, Snyder returned to local television in 1982 to become an anchor at WABC-TV in New York City. He returned to Los Angeles in 1985, but stayed with ABC to anchor KABC-TV.