Loni Anderson, best known for her role as receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on '70s and '80s sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati," has died at age 79.

Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday. “We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our dear wife,

Loni Anderson died at a Los Angeles hospital following a “prolonged" illness, her longtime publicist, Cheryl J. Kagan, said in a statement to The Associated Press.