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- Archive-name: tv/tom-snyder-faq
- Last-modified: 12/31/94
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- "When I was growing up there was Jack Paar, who was just a great
- conversationalist. I thought to bring conversation back would be the
- original move now." -- Lorne Michaels, describing his upcoming talk
- show production, "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," in the summer of '93
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- Details About the New Show
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- 1. The program, entitled, "Late, Late Show with Tom Snyder" (even
- its title conjures up images of old-time t.v.), will air live
- on the CBS Television Network at 12:35 a.m. Eastern, 11:35 p.m.
- Central beginning January 9, 1995. It will be rebroadcast to
- the Mountain and Pacific zones on a delay.
-
- "Late, Late Show" will also be simulcast to a group of radio
- stations coast to coast. This will permit callers from the
- t.v.-delay regions to participate in the call-in portion of the
- colorcast. Viz.:
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- Pac Mtn Cen Eas
- CBS-TV 12:35 11:35 11:35 12:35
- (delay) (delay) (live) (live)
-
- Radio 9:35 10:35 11:35 12:35
- (live) (live) (live) (live)
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- 2. The format will remain mostly the same. The set will be much
- improved over the current shoebox that T.S. occupies over at
- CNBC. The show will originate from Los Angeles.
-
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- About "The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder"
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- "The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder" had two distinct incarnations. The
- first was an intimate, cigarette-smoke-laden hour of talk featuring the
- personable and popular NBC local news anchor and his guests, who ran
- the gamut from celebrities to public officials, authors to oddballs.
- (One of the first-ever Tomorrow Shows was an hour-long confrontation
- with a venom-spouting David Duke.) This version ran from 1973 to 1980
- following the 90-minute Carson show, from 1 to 2 a.m. Eastern time.
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- The second version was a ridiculous marriage hatched out of the
- renegotiation of Johnny Carson's contract in 1980 whereby the King
- scaled back his show to an hour. It was renamed "Tomorrow Coast to
- Coast" and featured gossip moron Rona Barrett in her Hollywood studio
- sharing time with Tom in New York, who had a barrage of musical acts
- and, worse, a studio audience foist upon him. Barrett and Snyder
- soon were no longer on speaking terms as Rona chose to hog the camera
- during her segments for tedious commentary on show business while Tom
- tried to feign thoughtful conversation with British New Wave rockers
- like Mick Jones and Paul Weller.
-
- It was replaced on February 1, 1982 with "Late Night with David
- Letterman."
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- The archive home for both "Tomorrow" shows is Chicago's very own Museum
- of Broadcast Communications (312-629-6014).
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