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TOMORROW WITH TOM SNYDER {HOWARD COSELL} (TV)

Summary

One in this series of late-night topical interview programs hosted by Tom Snyder. On this show, Snyder is joined by outspoken ABC sports broadcaster Howard Cosell. Cosell comments on the following topics: his background in law; being denied a spot on ABC's "Monday Night Baseball" program; his belief that baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn is "incredibly inept"; why baseball's antitrust exemption is wrong; his early broadcasting career in radio; the escalating costs of sports production; why he recommended that ABC should fire former "Monday Night Football" announcer Fred "the Hammer" Williamson -- whom he had earlier recommended for the job; Roone Arledge's decision to replace Keith Jackson with Frank Gifford on "Monday Night Football"; the erroneous reports that he once tried to broadcast a "Monday Night Football" game while drunk -- although he does acknowledge vomiting on fellow broadcaster Don Meredith one night due to a stomach illness; his relationship with boxer Muhammad Ali; how sports has distorted the priorities of many Americans; the talents of the rock group the Bay City Rollers, who appeared on his variety show, "Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell"; the cancellation of that variety program; the gamble taken by NBC Entertainment Division President Fred Silverman in moving the popular police drama "Starsky and Hutch" to a new time slot; and Cosell's views on the negative press he receives. Includes commercials.

Details

  • NETWORK: NBC
  • DATE: June 10, 1976 1:00 AM
  • RUNNING TIME: 0:46:22
  • COLOR/B&W: Color
  • CATALOG ID: T:35796
  • GENRE: Talk/Interviews
  • SUBJECT HEADING: Sports; Sports broadcasting
  • SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1973-1982
  • COMMERCIALS:
    • TV - Commercials - The New York Sheraton Hotel

CREDITS

  • Tom Snyder … Host, Interviewer
  • Howard Cosell … Guest
  • Bill Wendell … Announcer, New York Sheraton Hotel commercial
  • Bay City Rollers
  • Frank Gifford
  • Keith Jackson
  • Bowie Kuhn
  • Meredith, Don ("Dandy Don")
  • Fred Silverman
  • Williamson, Fred "the Hammer"