Word: snyders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite. At a press preview of the première (all shows are taped in advance in Los Angeles without a studio audience), Host Tom Snyder opened with a scathingly opinionated monologue on the Agnew resignation. He castigated the "pious and sanctimonious bilge coming out of Washington" and concluded with the comment: "How dumb do they think we are?" By the time the show went on the air the next morning, however, the network had forced Snyder to retape his opener, omitting his critical broadside...
...Snyder, a radio and TV reporter since 1956 and currently anchor man for the evening news on Los Angeles' local station KNBC, has a reputation for outspokenness. Says a network acquaintance: "Snyder will say anything. He's brash, loud and unpredictable." Snyder, 37, claims that he is simply "a reporter interested in getting at the facts." Nonetheless, on the first few shows, his questioning was occasionally so insistent that his guests hardly had a chance to answer. Snyder also frequently rambles on as if he were more fascinated with his own opinions than those of his guests...
Tall (6 ft. 4 in.), tendentious Snyder may not turn out to be every insomniac's cup of warm milk. His perhaps too obvious intent is to be as unsettling as possible. But if the show's guests are as offbeat as promised, Tomorrow may help tomorrow creep in at a slightly peppier pace...
...long the show will run will be determined by how the public receives Snyder's penchant for rudeness. The audience is out there--ABC's In Concert proved that much. Tomorrow is the next big step toward the 24 hour programming networks have been threatening--not old movies, but starmaking, money-grossing productions. The investment in Tomorrow is small, and if the show fails, the experiment will definitely be repeated...
Most people, of course, are asleep before Tomorrow begins, and Snyder is not the polished product that a major network would spring on a nation of wide awake mild-mannered consumers. But a bedtime attack on the Nixon administration caps a day a whole lot better than "Will you look at Doc Severinsen's suit...