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| birth_name = Thomas James Snyder
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|05|12}}
| birth_place = [[Milwaukee
| death_date = {{death date and age|2007|7|29|1936|5|12}}
| death_place = [[San Francisco
| years_active = 1955–2005
| credits = ''[[The Late Late Show (American talk show)|The Late Late Show]],''<br /> ''[[The Tomorrow Show|Tomorrow with Tom Snyder]],''<br /> ''[[NBC Nightly News]]''
| alma_mater = [[Marquette University]]
| spouse = {{marriage|Mary Ann Bendel|1958|1975|reason=divorced}}
| children =
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'''Thomas James 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|Tomorrow]]'', on [[NBC]] in the 1970s and 1980s, and ''[[The Late Late Show (American talk show)|The Late Late Show]]'', on [[CBS]] in the 1990s.<ref name=nytobit/> Snyder was also the pioneer anchor of the [[prime time]] ''NBC News Update'', in the 1970s and early 1980s, which was a one-minute capsule of news updates
==Early life==
Snyder was born in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]], to Frank and Marie Snyder, who were of [[Germans|German]], [[
==Newscasting career==
Snyder loved radio since he was a child and at some point he 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Remembering Tom: How he got started |last=Cuprisin |first=Tom |date=July 30, 2007 |newspaper=[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]] |orig-year=1996 |url=http://archive.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/31934684.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002161429/http://archive.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/31934684.html |archive-date=October 2, 2017 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Snyder began his career as a radio reporter at [[WRIT-AM]] (unrelated to the present-day [[WRIT-FM|FM station]]) in Milwaukee, now WJYI-AM and at [[WKZO (AM)|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]]).
Snyder moved into television in the 1960s; he talked about driving cross-country in an early [[Chevrolet Corvair|Corvair]] from [[Atlanta]] to [[Los Angeles]] around 1963.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}} After a year-long stint in a news job at [[KTLA]], he became a news anchor for KYW-TV (now [[WKYC-TV]]) in Cleveland in 1964.<ref name=pioneers>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/tomsnyder.html |title=The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia |publisher=Broadcastpioneers.com |access-date=2014-08-12}}</ref> In 1965, when [[Westinghouse Broadcasting]] moved [[KYW-TV]] back to Philadelphia as the result of an FCC ruling,<ref name=pioneers/><ref name=kyw1965>{{cite AV media |people=Snyder, Tom |date=July 15, 1965 |title="Day of No Protests" at Girard College |type=archival video |time-caption=Audio begins at |time=00:12 |work=KYW-TV Newscasts |publisher=Temple University Libraries, Urban Archives |quote=KYW news reporter Tom Snyder going through his news report several times on a "day of no protests" at Girard College. Snyder also details the legal efforts to end segregation at the school without breaking Stephen Girard's will. |id=KYW19650715_01 |url=http://digital.library.temple.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15037coll2/id/58 }}</ref> Snyder went along and remained in Philadelphia for five years.<ref name=pioneers/>
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[[File:John Lennon last television interview Tomorrow show 1975.JPG|thumb|Snyder interviewing [[John Lennon]] in 1975]]
Unique one-on-one exchanges were common to the program, notably with [[John Lennon]] in 1975, [[John Lydon]] of [[Public Image Ltd|PiL]] and the [[
An infamous edition of ''The Tomorrow Show'' broadcast on October 31, 1979, saw Snyder interview the rock group [[Kiss (band)|KISS]]. During the episode, a visibly irritated [[Gene Simmons]] (bass) and [[Paul Stanley]] (guitar) tried to contain the bombastic (and drunk) [[Ace Frehley]] (lead guitar), whose nonstop laughter and joking overshadowed the rest of the band. Snyder and [[Peter Criss]] (drummer) were obviously enjoying it though, chiming in with several jokes, much to Frehley's delight, and Simmons' disgust. Criss made repeated references to his large gun collection, to the chagrin of Simmons. Some of the footage from this show was later included on the ''Kissology—The Ultimate KISS Collection'' Vol. 2: 1978–1991 (2007) DVD.
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==After ''Tomorrow''==
In 1982 Snyder joined WABC-TV in New York, anchoring the 5 pm ''[[Eyewitness News]]'' program with [[Kaity Tong]]. He stayed at WABC for two years,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=ahUo5QXp2RwU&refer=us|title=Tom Snyder, Late-Night Television Talk Show Pioneer, Dies at 71|website=[[Bloomberg News]]|date=June 2023 }}</ref> then returned to the talk format in 1985 at [[KABC-TV]] in Los Angeles with a local afternoon show. He had hoped to syndicate the program nationally the following year, but those plans were scratched after [[Oprah Winfrey]]'s [[The Oprah Winfrey Show|Chicago-based syndicated show]] entered the market first, and took over Snyder's time slot on KABC-TV.
In 1988 Snyder inaugurated a similar three-hour program on [[Citadel Media|ABC Radio]]. The first hour was spent chatting with a celebrity guest; during the second hour Snyder engaged someone in the news; and the final hour was consumed chatting with his legion of fans. Occasionally the caller would be a well-known fan like David Letterman or [[Ted Koppel]]. One of Snyder's favorite callers was [[Sherman Hemsley]], the actor who played [[George Jefferson]] on the hit television sitcom ''[[The Jeffersons]]''. The ''Tom Snyder Show'' for ABC Radio Networks went off the air in late 1992.
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''The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder'' aired live in the Eastern and Central Time Zones, and was simulcast to other time zones on radio to allow everyone a chance to call in. Snyder's CNBC show was taken over, largely unchanged in format, by [[Charles Grodin]]. One of the many interviews conducted on ''The Late Late Show'' was with [[Gloria Vanderbilt]] about her son's suicide, told dramatically over an entire hour. Another was a lengthy interview with [[Robert Blake (actor)|Robert Blake]] very soon before Blake was charged with murder. When Snyder took ill with the flu, comedians [[Martin Mull]] and [[Jon Stewart]] filled in as hosts. Snyder's final ''Late Late Show'' aired on March 26, 1999. It was then reformatted for his successor [[Craig Kilborn]], as a more traditional late night show with an audience, comic monologue, comedy segments, shorter interviews, and a greater emphasis on guests from the entertainment industry. Scottish comedian [[Craig Ferguson]] maintained a similar format when he succeeded Kilborn in 2005, though Ferguson cited Snyder as an influence in his interview style, and even experimented with an audience-less episode, in the style of Snyder's tenure, on February 23, 2010.
After stepping down from ''The Late Late Show'', Snyder was offered
Snyder also hosted a
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==Legacy==
Snyder was posthumously inducted into the [[Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia]] Hall of Fame in 2008.<ref name=pioneers/>
He is played by [[Ed Helms]] in ''[[A Futile and Stupid Gesture (film)|A Futile and Stupid Gesture]]''.
==Credits==
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