He was also described as professional, a hard worker, kind, funny, fiercely private, a perfectionist, a family man, competitive, a work-a-hollic and one of the best television news reporters, anchors and interviewers in the business. From 1974 to 1983, Tom Snyder ruled late night network television in America as host of the NBC-TV program called The Tomorrow Show. It followed perhaps one of the most watched, celebrated, and highly acclaimed television programs in America at the time, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.