May 10, 1994. A fire in Ft Lee, NJ, forced the east coast staff to evacuate, so Tom Snyder stepped up to host multiple hours of live programing to keep his network on the air. He took a lot of phone calls, and some friends dropped by.
Without a doubt, Tom Snyder was by far the greatest TV interviewer of all time. -You always felt he was talking directly to you. In our current world of mediocrity, Tom is sorely, sorely missed. i
It’s takes a solid broadcaster to do this alone…..I love watching and listening to Tom, in my opinion, the greatest broadcaster of all of time………that jazz in between segments makes my day…….
I aways watched both Dave and T.S. and always felt that together, were the best two hours of Late Night Broadcast Television. I always wondered if Tom would have preferred to remain at CNBC?
That's a great question..Going to CBS definitely added a lot of pressure..I listened to a podcast of Letterman's old producer and he said Tom didn't rise to the occasion, basically got lazy, didn't try hard enough etc. Tom ended up retiring a year early as he knew the bosses at CBS wanted to replace him with someone younger and hungrier. Still, going back to CNBC I thought that was a perfect gig for Tom, a decent cable show with very little pressure..if Larry King's guest was boring you could just flip the channel to Tom and get a few laughs.
