1. Linda Ellerbee was born on Linda Jane Smith; August 15,1944 and is an American journalist, anchor, producer, reporter, author, speaker and commentator, noted as longtime Washington correspondent for NBC News and host of NBC News Overnight.
15 Facts About Linda Ellerbee
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Linda Ellerbee is widely known as the twenty-five year host of Nick News, Nickelodeon's highly rated and recognized news program for older school-aged children and teens that addressed substantive issues, including wars, disease and disasters, without condescension.
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Linda Ellerbee attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, dropping out in 1964.
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Linda Ellerbee traveled around the country for some time afterward, working itinerant jobs in radio.
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Linda Ellerbee joined Lloyd Dobyns as co-host of Weekend when the show moved from its late-night time slot into direct prime time competition with CBS's 60 Minutes.
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In 1982, Linda Ellerbee was again teamed with Dobyns as hosts of NBC News Overnight, where their trademark writing style made the show somewhat reminiscent of their stint on Weekend.
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In 1984, after the cancellation of Overnight, Linda Ellerbee moved to Summer Sunday USA, as co-anchor with Andrea Mitchell, the first time a prime-time network news program was co-anchored by two women.
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Linda Ellerbee was then a correspondent for Today before moving to rival network ABC in 1986.
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At ABC, Linda Ellerbee was able to co-write and co-anchor Our World, a weekly primetime historical series.
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Linda Ellerbee won an Emmy Award for her work on that program.
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Linda Ellerbee has produced programs for every major cable network, and has as its flagship program Nick News, a news program for children on Nickelodeon.
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In 2004, Linda Ellerbee was honored with an Emmy for her WE: Women's Entertainment network series When I Was a Girl.
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The episode "Summer of '77" referenced that Linda Ellerbee had auditioned for the anchor job which eventually went to the title character, played by Candice Bergen.
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Also in 1989, Linda Ellerbee created a minor uproar by appearing in television commercials for Maxwell House coffee.
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In 1992, Linda Ellerbee was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a double mastectomy.