Tom 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. He talked about driving cross country in an early Corvair from Atlanta to Los Angeles around 1963 where he landed a news job at KTLA then on to KNBC-TV also in Los Angeles where from 1970 to 1974 he was an anchor for the 6 p. m.

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. 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.