By reuters
Saturday Aug 4 6:35 PM
Saturday Aug 4 6:35 PM
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Talk show host and newsman Tom Snyder has died in San Francisco from complications of leukemia, Entertainment Tonight reported on Monday.
Snyder, 71, was said to have died on Sunday afternoon. He announced on his Web site about two years ago that he had been diagnosed with leukemia.
His publicist was not immediately available for comment.
Snyder was born in Milwaukee and began his broadcasting career as a staff announcer and disc jockey at the local radio station WRIT, according to archives of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia.
But he gained national fame as host of "The Tomorrow Show" during the 1970s and then spent several years on "The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder."
