"There's never been anything plastic or blow-dried about Linda," said Cheryl Gould, a creator and senior broadcast producer on "Overnight." "She has always been the antithesis of your stereotypical, perfectly coiffed anchorwoman. duPont-Columbia University Awards, judges called it "possibly the best-written and most intelligent news program ever." Her network news highlight came in the wee hours when she and Dobyns wrote and co-hosted the nightly news program "Overnight" from 1984 to 1986 on NBC. She hosted weekly news segments on the "Today" show and, later, "Good Morning America." She quickly moved on to local news in New York and then NBC, where she covered politics and co-hosted the prime-time newsmagazine "Weekend" with Lloyd Dobyns. A news director at Houston's KHOU-TV saw it, thought Ellerbee was a funny writer, and hired her. On the night desk in Dallas, she wrote a gossipy letter to a friend that was inadvertently sent on the wire to three states. Ellerbee - and later Murphy Brown - survived breast cancer.Įllerbee began a television news career after being fired by The Associated Press in 1972. The outspoken Texan and multiple award winner was among the first prominent women in TV news and a model for the sitcom character Murphy Brown after actress Candice Bergen studied her work.
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