@ibstubro
Your mention of Linda Ellerbee makes me pine for one of the best news programs of all time (dare I say, better than 60 Mibutes ) because it had a wicked sense of humor in addition to hard hitting news segments.
And Ellerbee and Lloyd Dobyns were the perfect combo. I refer, of course, to NBC News Overnight which only lasted a few years unfortunately.
Because I’m a night owl, I wasn’t yet ready to call it a day immediately after Letterman. (This was prior to his move to CBS so he was on an hour later then.)
Overnight was the absolutely perfect way to end the day.
Anybody else remember it fondly? It won a crap load of prestigious awards (and yet still got cancelled) Networks are run by idiots who wouldn’t recognize a high quality show if it bit them in the ass. That was a perfect show in a perfect timeslot and you couldn’t find a better hosting team than Ellerbee and Dobyns.