Lloyd Dobyns Jr., the Peabody Award winner who once served as an anchor and correspondent for NBC News, died on Sunday in Mebane, North Carolina, after suffering complications from a series of strokes, his son Ken Dobyns tells AP.
He was 85.Dobyns, Jr. was born on March 12, 1936 in Newport News, Virginia, working at NBC between 1969 and 1986. During his time there, he hosted the program Weekend and NBC News Overnight, working with Linda Ellerbee on the latter between 1982 and 1983.
He subsequently moved on to the network’s short-lived program, Monitor.Dobyns, Jr. kickstarted his broadcasting career in his hometown.
He later worked as a reporter at reporter at Roanoke, Virginia’s WDBJ-TV, and as an anchor at WAVY television, an NBC affiliate
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