Re: BREAKING NEWS: Tom Snyder Has Died

Alan Ramsey says...

Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Tom Snyder Has Died


http://www.etonline.com/celebrities/news/49199/

ET is breaking the news that legendary newsman and broadcaster TOM SNYDER
died today at 4 p.m. in San Francisco from complications of leukemia. He was
71 years old. Details are developing ...



Another confirmation from the Post Chronicle....

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_21294894.shtml

Tom Snyder Dies: Newsman Tom Snyder Dead At 71
by Staff

Tom Snyder, the veteran talk show host and newsman has passed away. Tom
Snyder reportedly died from complications of leukemia.

Snyder died yesterday at 4 p.m. in San Francisco. He was 71 years old.

Snyder was born May 12, 1936 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was a graduate
of Marquette University in Milwaukee. Snyder began his broadcasting
career at the age of 21, switched to television to work as a local news
anchor.

In 1965, Tom Snyder, along with Marciarose Shestack, made TV history
when they anchored the first noon news show in the country. The show was
broadcasted from the Eyewitness News studios in Philadelphia.

He eventually would become the host of the NBC interview show
"Tommorrow" (1973?81), for which he won an Emmy Award in 1974. He
returned to late night in 1995 with the Late Late Show with Tom Snyder
(1995?1999).

He was always smoking on camera, so clouds of tobacco fumes floated
around his head like a spiffy special effect. Snyder had a booming laugh
and sometimes was perceived as caustic.

Snyder's most memorable interviews included Ayn Rand, John Lennon,
Charles Manson, and Johnny Rotten.

Snyder's gray hair and probing manner got the boot when NBC went for
youth, replacing Tomorrow with David Letterman's Late Night in 1982.

Details are developing...

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I remember the second time Tom got booted in favor of a younger demo. He
was quite bitter about it and made no bones on the air he was pissed.
One night about a month before his final show he was getting ticked off
talking about his ultimate replacement and said "They want young and
hip, huh? Fine I'll shove young and hip down their throat."

I still haven't forgiven Dave and Les Moonves for dumping Tom.

Traci
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