She was then was a correspondent for Today before moving to rival network ABC in 1986. In 1984, after the cancellation of Overnight, 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. They ended each broadcast with a short, usually wry, commentary, again signing off with the catch-phrase, "And so it goes," which later became the title of her first memoir. In 1982, Ellerbee was again teamed with Dobyns (and later Bill Schechner) as hosts of NBC News Overnight, where their trademark writing style made the show somewhat reminiscent of their stint on Weekend. As with the late-night incarnation, they would sign-off with the phrase, "And so it goes." Ellerbee joined Lloyd Dobyns as co-host of Weekend when the show moved from its late-night time slot (where it rotated with Saturday Night Live, generally one Saturday night per month) into direct prime time competition with CBS's 60 Minutes.
Her first anchor job was on the prime-time version of Weekend. CareerĪt NBC, Ellerbee worked as a reporter on Today. Within several months, she was hired by New York's WCBS-TV. The letter brought her to the attention of Houston CBS television affiliate KHOU-TV, which hired her to replace Jessica Savitch in January 1973. She claims to have been fired after writing a catty personal letter on the AP's word processors and accidentally sending the letter out on the wire. In radio, I learned about keeping logs, editing audiotape, writing copy, selling air time, announcing, and "running a board," which sounds one hell of a lot more sporting than it is.Īfter a stint working for Terry Miller, majority leader of the Alaska Senate, she was hired by the Dallas bureau of the Associated Press to write copy. I moved around some, married some, had two babies, worked for three radio stations, one of which hired me to read the news because I sounded black-my Texas heritage-and the black woman it had hired did not.
Ellerbee traveled around the country for some time afterward, working itinerant jobs in radio. She also attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, although she dropped out in 1964.
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