About Tom Snyder
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 Tomorrow, on NBC in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder, on CBS 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. == Early life == Snyder was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Frank and Marie Snyder, who were of German, Dutch, and Irish descent. He received a Roman 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. He graduated in 1959 with a major in journalism. == 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. Snyder began his career as a radio reporter at WRIT (now WJOI) in Milwaukee and at WKZO in Kalamazoo (where he was fired by John Fetzer) in the 1950s.
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