Tom Snyder
| Tom Snyder | |
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Snyder as host of the TV program Tomorrow in 1977.
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| Born |
Thomas James Snyder May 12, 1936 Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Died | July 29, 2007 (aged 71) San Francisco, California |
| Alma mater | Marquette University |
| Years active | 1959–2000 |
| Notable credit(s) |
The Late Late Show, Tomorrow with Tom Snyder, NBC Nightly News |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Ann Bendel (1958–1975) |
| Children | Anne Marie Snyder |
Thomas James "Tom" Snyder (May 12, 1936 – July 29, 2007) was an American television personality, news anchor, and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows The Tomorrow Show, on the NBC television network in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on the CBS Television Network in the 1990s. Snyder was also the pioneer anchor of the primetime NBC News Update, in the 1970s and early 1980s, which was a one-minute capsule of news updates in primetime.
Snyder was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to parents of German, Cornish, and Irish descent, Frank and Marie Snyder. He received a 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 originally planned to study medicine and become a doctor.
Snyder had loved radio since he was a child and at some point changed his field of study from pre-med to journalism. He once 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 (unrelated to the present-day FM station) in Milwaukee and at WKZO in Kalamazoo (where he was fired by John Fetzer) in the 1950s. For a time he worked at Savannah, Georgia, AM station WSAV (now WBMQ).
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