Thomas James Snyder (May 12, 1936 â€" July 29, 2007) was an American
television personality, news anchor, and radio personality best known
for his late night talk shows Tomorrow, 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 prime
time NBC News Update, in the 1970s and early 1980s, which was a
one-minute capsule of news updates in prime time.Snyder was born in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Frank and Marie Snyder, who were of German,
Cornish, and Irish descent. 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 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. Snyder began his career as a radio reporter
at WRIT-AM (unrelated to the present-day FM station) in Milwaukee, now
WJYI-AM 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).
television personality, news anchor, and radio personality best known
for his late night talk shows Tomorrow, 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 prime
time NBC News Update, in the 1970s and early 1980s, which was a
one-minute capsule of news updates in prime time.Snyder was born in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Frank and Marie Snyder, who were of German,
Cornish, and Irish descent. 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 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. Snyder began his career as a radio reporter
at WRIT-AM (unrelated to the present-day FM station) in Milwaukee, now
WJYI-AM 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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