RIP Tom Snyder. What a voice, what a personality. This story is particularly poignant for people in my area (Mudcat Central country) because Snyder came here to Philadelphia when KYW moved here from Cleveland in 1965. He anchored the noon news program, and was a pioneer of the broadcasting format that is so familiar to viewers worldwide today -- talking directly into the camera and engaging the viewer, rather than reading from a paper. He was a familiar face to us for many years, as news anchor and host of the Tomorrow show and The Late Late Show. Watching the clips from the local station's archive brought back a lot of memories of a TV age when the news was the news, not an infomercial for the station's evening broadcast schedule!