The network wanted the show to attract younger viewers and thus started booking younger musical and entertainment acts for interviews followed by performances. These would on occasion cross over into bizarre territory such as a March 1981 appearance by the punk band the Plasmatics during which lead singer Wendy O. Williams sledgehammered a TV in the studio. The explosion disrupted a live broadcast of "NBC Nightly News" with anchorman John Chancellor being produced in a studio two floors above. Snyder himself referred to this occurrence on a May 1981 follow-up appearance in which the Plasmatics blew up a car. "Weird Al" Yankovic's first television appearance was on the April 21 1981 installment of the show, where he performed "Another One Rides the Bus". A few months later, in June 1981, Irish rock band U2's first American television appearance also took place on "Tomorrow Coast to Coast".