Actor Loni Anderson-- best known for her role as an empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy 'WKRP in Cincinnati'-- has died, just days before her 80th birthday. Her longtime publicist says Anderson died at a Los Angeles hospital following "a prolonged illness.

Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist Jennifer on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” has died.