Robin Robinson Biography
Robin Robinson is a long-time Chicago television news anchor best recognized for her 27-year tenure as the principal news anchor at Fox-owned WFLD-TV. She may now be heard on the radio as a fill-in anchor/reporter at WBBM (AM) and as the host of her own show, ‘Robin’s Nest,’ at WVON.
Robin Robinson Age
Robin Robinson Education
She graduated from Claremont High School, helping to integrate the school. Robinson earned a bachelor’s degree from San Diego State University.
Robin Robinson Family- Parents
Robinson was born in Chicago, the daughter of Ebony West Coast editor Louie Robinson and Mati Robinson. Robinson and her family relocated to Pomona, California, in 1960, and to Claremont, California, in 1963.
Robin Robinson Husband
From 1982 to 1985, Robinson dated educator, author, and businessman Stedman Graham. She has had three marriages. In the 1980s, Robinson married retired track and field sprinter Steve Williams. Her second marriage, from July 1986[8] to 1990, was to NBC spot marketer Terrence Brantley, with whom she had daughter Jade (1989). Her third marriage lasted from June 1991 to 1994 and they have one son, Cameron (born in October 1991). Robinson lives on Chicago’s Northwest Side in the Bucktown area.
Robin Robinson Career
Robinson began her career as a reporter and morning news reader for KGTV-TV in San Diego in 1979. She moved to KMGH-TV in Denver as a consumer reporter in 1982. Robinson started WBBM-TV in 1984 as a consumer reporter and was eventually elevated to news anchor. Robinson worked for WBBM-TV until 1987, when she left to work for WFLD-TV in Chicago as part of the station’s first nightly news anchoring duo, alongside fellow KMGH veteran Kris Long. According to a June 24, 1987 Chicago Sun-Times story, Robinson turned down an invitation to return to KGTV in San Diego as an anchor. Longtime Chicago news anchor Walter Jacobson joined Robinson on the anchor desk in 1993.
Robinson and Jacobson collaborated until Jacobson’s retirement in 2006. Robinson and Bob Sirott co-anchored WFLD’s late local news. She has received a number of local Emmy awards for her work. She has also appeared as a Fox Chicago reporter alongside Bob Sirott on many episodes of Fox’s The Chicago Code. After 26 years as the weeknight anchor of WFLD’s 9 p.m. newscast, Robinson retired in November 2013. She was promoted to host of the station’s special series, ‘Chicago at the Tipping Point,’ which focused on the city’s rising violence. She held that position until July 28, 2014, when she left WFLD following a 27-year tenure.
She was appointed as a fill-in anchor/reporter for WBBM (AM) NewsRadio 780 in April 2015. She was hired to host her own show on WVON-FM on May 12, 2015. Robinson and former colleague and presenter Lauren Cohn joined ‘In The Loop,’ a half-hour public affairs news program on WYCC, Chicago’s PBS station, in September 2015. She worked for the Chicago Police Department as a public outreach officer under Rahm Emanuel’s mayoralty. Lori Lightfoot’s mayoralty saw Robinson leave this position. On December 1, 2011, while chatting with another on-air reporter during a live 9 p.m. newscast, Robinson stated, “There is no Santa.” The station received countless phone calls and emails in response to her remark.
Robin Robinson Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.