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    R.I.P. Lloyd Dobyns, co-anchor of a TV news broadcast that changed how they looked and sounded
    Associated Press / Aug 30, 2021
    “Reviewing ‘NBC News Overnight’ for The New York Times in 1982, John J. O’Connor called it ‘one of the classier new acts in television news” and noted, “Both Mr. Dobyns and [Linda] Ellerbee take some pride in their writing abilities and, more than anything else, their collaborations in this area lend the program its appealing personality’…’It was our finest hour of news and remains the model for an hour news product,’ Reuven Frank, the president of NBC News, said…” —
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