Romona Robinson

Bio/Early Life and Career

Robinson was born April 10, 1969 in Wilson City, Missouri as one of 11 children in her family. Following high school, she attended Lincoln University, where she graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science degree in broadcast journalism. After graduating from college, Robinson went right into the broadcast business, working in the city of her alma mater Jefferson City, Missouri first at a radio station, then at a television station as a reporter/weekend news anchor before moving on to Charleston, South Carolina in 1985 for a TV news anchor job.

Cleveland

In 1988, WUAB channel 43 in Cleveland debuted it's then-new nightly 10 O'Clock News newscast, hiring Robinson to be one of the primary co-anchors. This made her the first African-American woman to be an anchor of a nightly newscast in Cleveland. Robinson would become a popular personality at WUAB, getting her noticed to the point where in 1992 she had a brief cameo role in the ABC series The Commish.

Robinson would remain at WUAB until 1997, when she would move over to Cleveland NBC affiliate WKYC channel 3 to be their weeknight news anchor. Robinson and co-anchor Tim White would become one of Cleveland's most popular and highest rated news teams during their near decade-long tenure together (1999-2008), but in December 2008 WKYC opted not to renew White's contract, and named Robinson as solo anchor of the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts on WKYC, making her the first African-American woman to serve in that role in Cleveland. During this time, Robinson was able to get a one-on-one interview with President Barack Obama. Robinson would serve in this capacity on WKYC until December 16, 2011 when her contract expired.

Robinson would then sign with CBS affiliate WOIO channel 19 in January 2012 to become their new weeknight co-anchor, where she remains to this day

Personal

Robinson married Rodney Tyler in August 2004.

Awards and honors