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Jessica Beth Savitch (February 1, 1947 – October 23, 1983) was an American television journalist who was the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily newsreader for NBC News during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story is a 1995 American biographical drama television film directed by Peter Werner and written by Linda Bergman. It stars Sela Ward as a television journalist Jessica Savitch. The film premiered on Lifetime on September 4, 1995.
Jessica Savitch: Host Frontline: 25 1983-10-23 Drowned in a car accident 1 Replaced during the second season by Judy Woodruff. Michael Conrad: Phil Esterhaus: Hill Street Blues: 1983-11-22 Urethral cancer: 4 Character killed off while having sex with Grace Gardner.
The screenplay began as an adaptation of Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch, a 1988 book by Alanna Nash that recounted the troubled life of American news anchor Jessica Savitch. The finished picture, however, was greatly altered by commercial decisions on the part of the producers, and bore little resemblance to Savitch's biography.
While at NBC, Ellerbee worked with Jessica Savitch; when Savitch's drug problems became apparent Ellerbee tried to organize an intervention, but Savitch died before that happened. [ 6 ] 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 ...
While in Houston, Kershaw had been dating Jessica Savitch, a news reporter with a rival television station in Texas. Kershaw helped Savitch develop her reporting skills during their stormy ten-year relationship. [6] The relationship was depicted in the made-for-television movie: Almost Golden, about Savitch's life. [7]
Gwenda Linda Blair (born 1943) is an American author and journalist known for her biographies of Jessica Savitch, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and the family of Donald Trump. She is an adjunct associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Blair was born in Washington, D.C., to parents Newell and Greta (Flintermann) Blair.
Frontline ' s first season, in 1983, was the only season to have Jessica Savitch as its host (Savitch died in October of that year). No. overall No. in season Title