Robin Roberts

television sportscaster; television news anchorperson

Personal Information

Born on November 23, 1960, in Pass Christian, MS; daughter of Lawrence (a retired Air Force colonel) and Lucimarian (a former Mississippi state school board chairperson) Roberts
Education: Southeastern Louisiana University, BA (cum laude), 1983.

Career

Sportscaster, 1983-. Began professional career as weekend sports anchor at WDAM-TV, Hattiesburg, MS; sports anchor at television stations in Biloxi, MS, ca. 1985-87, and Nashville, TN, ca. 1987-89; sports anchor at WAGA-TV, Atlanta, GA, 1989-90; sportscaster at ESPN, Bristol, CT, 1990-2001, began as host of overnight SportsCenter, became host of Sunday Sportsday, SportsCenter, NFL Prime Time, and numerous specials and play-by-play events; host of Wide World of Sports and reporter at large for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC-TV), 1996-2001; Good Morning America, news anchor, 2002-2005; Good Morning America, co-anchor, 2005-.

Life's Work

One of the most successful female news personalities on television, Robin Roberts hosts Good Morning America for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The poised and well-spoken Roberts made a name for herself as a commentator for ESPN's SportsCenter and ABC's long-running Wide World of Sports. She was ESPN's first on-air black anchorwoman, the first black female host of Wide World of Sports, and the first woman ever to host a network televised National Football League pre-game show. New York Times correspondent Richard Sandomir cited Roberts for her "skill and intelligence," and he added, "That she is a black woman should not be a factor in assessing her work. She's flat-out talented."

Inspired by Talented Family Members

Roberts's string of broadcasting "firsts" are only the latest phase in her family's history as modern pioneers. Her father, Lawrence Roberts, was a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen unit during World War II, and her mother, Lucimarian, served for years on the Mississippi State Board of Education. "I had a father and a mother who were the first to do this and the first to do that and always getting this award or that award, so I figured, well, shoot, I guess I should be a physicist on the weekend," Roberts joked in Sports Illustrated.

From her father--who pursued his childhood dream of flying planes even though he'd always been told his race would deny him the chance--Roberts learned tenacity. From her mother, who taught English, she learned the importance of correct grammar and impeccable speech. Throughout her childhood, both of her parents held her to high standards, but they were also her biggest fans.

Born in Mississippi in 1960, Roberts grew up in a relatively affluent household. Her father stayed in the Air Force after the war and was promoted to the rank of colonel, and the family resided in the small town of Pass Christian. Robin took to sports at an early age, becoming a Mississippi state bowling champion at age ten and a champion high school basketball player. She had not yet begun to dream about being on television, though. "I used to watch Wide World of Sports when I was a pig-tailed little girl in Mississippi, and I wish I could say I thought one day that would be me hosting the show," she commented in the Atlanta Constitution. "But I didn't, because that seemed so out of reach," she continued.

What did seem in reach, interestingly enough, was the opportunity to fly jet aircraft. When Roberts was a sophomore at Southeastern Louisiana University, she decided to take the entrance examination for a naval aviation training program. Her father helped her to study, even though he seemed less than enthusiastic about the decision. "I failed {the test} miserably," Roberts recalled in USA Today. "I still think it was rigged. My father may have pulled some strings. He still gets a twinkle in his eye about it," she quipped.

Pursued Sports Broadcasting as a Career

Roberts was drawn to broadcast journalism by watching her older sister Sally-Ann, who was a television anchorwoman. Robin majored in communications at Southeastern Louisiana University. In addition to the support from her family, Roberts drew inspiration from sports as well. To this end, she played on the university's women's basketball team. She could have been speaking about her own life when she told the Chicago Tribune, "I really believe you can learn so many things from athletics other than how to become a professional athlete." Speaking to the benefits reaped by children who participate in sports, she also added, "The intangibles they learn in athletics can help them be successful in any line of work." Indeed, Roberts applied her enthusiasm for competition to both the athletic court and her school work. She became her university's third highest scorer/rebounder in women's basketball and graduated cum laude in 1983. By that time she had formulated a dream that she would have thought impossible as a little girl. Encouraged by her college coaches to write down a "Mission Statement," she took a piece of paper and wrote on it: "ESPN by 1990." Roberts said in Black Enterprise, "My coaches taught me that talk is for dreams, but when you write it down, it becomes a goal."

Turning down offers for news reporting, Roberts took a part-time job as weekend sports anchor at a television station in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Her starting salary was $5.50 an hour. From Hattiesburg she moved to Biloxi, Mississippi, spending two years as a sportscaster there before moving on again to Nashville. Speaking candidly in Sports Illustrated, Roberts recalled, "It was harder getting work in those places than it was at ESPN. I would be very stupid and naive if I said there weren't assignments I should have gotten and didn't. It's difficult for me to sit here...and say, boy, have I been held back. But by my own standards, I was late getting here."

Roberts earned notice from ESPN as early as 1987, when a recruiter named Al Jaffe described her as "a tremendous presence" on-camera. Rather than signing on with ESPN at that time, however, she decided to get more experience in a large market. That decision sent her to WAGA-TV in Atlanta, Georgia, where she served as a sports anchor and reporter covering the city's major league teams. The citizens of Atlanta found Roberts to their liking, and she became a local celebrity, working local radio talk shows and attending charity functions.

Joined ESPN

All the time Roberts was cultivating her on-air presence, sometimes with the help of elocution advice from her mother. In 1990, ESPN called again--this time with an offer to host the station's overnight SportsCenter broadcasts. Roberts accepted, and within a month of arriving at the cable network's Connecticut studios, was promoted to anchor of Sunday SportsDay and NFL Prime Time.

Roberts was the first black anchorwoman hired by ESPN. She proved popular with viewers as well as ambitious for as many important assignments as the station would give her. Before the year was out, she was performing play-by-play for women's basketball games, reporting from the SportsCenter anchor desk, serving as a commentator at NCAA tournament events, and hosting specials. Her own series, In the SportsLight, began in 1994 and has specifically addressed the role athletics played in the lives of successful people of all walks of life. Interview subjects on the show have ranged from entertainers such as Bill Cosby and Hammer to politicians such as former U.S. senator Bill Bradley.

Proving herself to be adept at covering all sorts of sporting events, Roberts soon found herself working at the Winter and Summer Olympics, the Ladies Pro Golfing championships, and the world tennis tour. She was also one of the first female reporters to contribute significantly to draft day coverage for football and basketball, and she was the first regular female play-by-play announcer for men's college basketball games. Reflecting on her appeal in USA Today, Roberts commented that perhaps viewers feel that "even if you weren't on TV, they'd still want you in their home." She also noted that, being an ex-athlete, "I understand the athlete's mind-set, which isn't something all the guys at ESPN can."

Added Wide World of Sports to Repertoire

In 1996, ABC tapped Roberts to host that network's venerable sports program ABC's Wide World of Sports. Roberts, who continued her association with ESPN, also agreed to host an ABC series called A Passion to Play, about women's sports issues, as well as serving in play-by-play situations for sports as diverse as tennis and short track speed skating. Soon after signing with ABC, Roberts anchored the coverage of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. And, in another ground-breaking moment, she stepped in and hosted an important National Football League pre-game show during the playoffs, as a substitute for John Saunders.

Thus, in one dizzying six-year span, Roberts racked up a significant roll-call of firsts: first black anchorwoman on ESPN; first black female host of Wide World of Sports; first female host of an NFL pre-game show, among others. "I'm very proud to be the first African-American woman, and I'm not going to make any excuses for that," Roberts declared in the Atlanta Constitution. "But it's a ticklish position because you want to be known for who you are and not just gender or race. I say with all the humbleness I can, I'm qualified and I'm prepared for this assignment," she added.

Roberts described her sports reporting as "the jewel assignment." She concluded in the New York Times: "I look at 'SportsCenter' and 'Wide World' as the premier sports programs ever. I like to be able to do both. How many people can say they hosted 'Wide World' and 'SportsCenter?'" Only one person: Robin Roberts. Roberts's salary for her dual contracts with ABC and ESPN was estimated at nearly four million dollars over six years. But just before her ESPN contract expired in 2001, Robert admitted to being "at a crossroads" in USA Today. "; I'm getting more into issues than games. Games are fun, and doing play-by-play (announcing) is a no-brainer. I know I could be the first woman, on, say, Monday Night Football. But now I'm not so sure. I may try to make a transition (out of sports) like Bryant Gumbel," she added.

Broadened Reporting to Include News

When Roberts decided to move away from sports reporting, she had come to be "widely regarded as one of sports' best and most versatile commentators, period," as noted in Black Enterprise. Roberts began reading the news headlines on the ABC program, Good Morning America, in 2002. Asked how working on morning news was different than reporting on sports, Robert replied to the Vancouver, Washington, Columbian that the biggest difference was "tone." "You can't scream at people in the morning. You have to really ease them into the day." Her adjustment was successful, and a network attempt to break the Today show's decade of besting Good Morning America with higher ratings bought Roberts a promotion by 2005, when she joined Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer as anchor. As Good Morning America closed in on Today in ratings, Roberts seemed poised to climb to the pinnacle of news broadcasting.

Awards

Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Television Award of Merit, 1990; Excellence in Sports Journalism award from Northeastern University Center for the Study of Sport in Society, 1993; two Emmy Awards for sportscasting work at ESPN; named to the Women's Institute on Sport and Education Foundation's Hall of Fame, 1994.

Further Reading

Periodicals

• Atlanta Constitution, April 21, 1991, p. E2; January 13, 1996, p. F2.
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 22, 2004, p. D2.
• Black Enterprise, April 30, 1997, p. 56; April 2001, p. 127.
• Chicago Tribune, August 22, 1994, p. N3; January 19, 1996, p. N5.
• Columbian (Vancouver, WA), May 11, 2005, p. D7.
• New York Times, January 19, 1996, p. B12; May 30, 2005, p. C1.
• Sports Illustrated, June 17, 1991, p. 78.
• USA Today, March 12, 1997, p. C1.

• "Robin Roberts," ABC, http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/story?id=128237 (October 12, 2005).

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Robin Roberts
Robin Roberts at The Heart Truth 2010
Born	Robin René Roberts November 23, 1960 (1960-11-23) (age 51) Pass Christian, Mississippi, U.S.
Education	B.A. in Communication, Southeastern Louisiana University
Occupation	News anchor
Title	Anchor of Good Morning America
Years active	1983–present
Notable credit(s)	Anchor of SportsCenter (1990–2005)
Robin Roberts ABC News Biography Official website

Robin René Roberts (born November 23, 1960) is an American television broadcaster. Roberts is the anchor of ABC's morning show Good Morning America.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Education 1.3 Broadcasting career 1.3.1 ESPN and ABC News 1.4 Health status 1.5 Special guest appearance on Hannah Montana Forever 2 References 3 External links

Biography

Early life

Robin Roberts on the red carpet at the 81st Academy Awards.

Roberts grew up in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where she played basketball and tennis, among other sports. She attended Pass Christian High School and graduated as the class of 1979 salutatorian.^[1] Her parents are Lawrence and Lucimarian Roberts. In a 2006 presentation to the assembled student body at Abilene Christian University, Roberts credited her parents as cultivating the "three Ds: Discipline, Determination, and "De Lord."^[2] She is the youngest of four children with siblings Sally-Ann, Lawrence "Butch", and Dorothy. Her father was a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen.^[3]

Education

Roberts attended Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana, graduating cum laude in 1983 with a degree in communication.^[4] She followed in the footsteps of older sister Sally-Ann Roberts, an anchor at the CBS affiliate WWL in New Orleans.

Roberts noted on the January 13, 2007, edition of Costas on the Radio that she was offered a scholarship to play basketball at Louisiana State University but thought the school too big and impersonal after visiting the campus. On her way back to Pass Christian from that visit, she saw a road sign for Southeastern Louisiana University, stopped to visit and decided to enroll. The only scholarship left was a tennis scholarship, and she was promised that there would be a journalism scholarship by the time she would graduate. She went on to become a standout performer on the women's basketball team, ending her career as the school's third all-time leading scorer (1,446 points) and rebounder (1,034). She is one of the only three Lady Lions to score 1,000 career points and grab 1,000 career rebounds. During her senior season, she averaged a career-high 15.2 points per game. On February 5, 2011, Southeastern hosted a ceremony to retire Roberts' jersey 21.^[5]

Broadcasting career

Roberts began her career in 1983 as a sports anchor and reporter for WDAM-TV in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.^[6] In 1984, she moved to WLOX-TV in Biloxi, Mississippi. In 1986, she was sports anchor and reporter for WSMV-TV in Nashville, Tennessee.^[7] She was also a sports anchor and reporter at WAGA-TV in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1988 to 1990. She was also a radio host for radio station V-103 while in Atlanta.

ESPN and ABC News

She joined ESPN as a sportscaster in February 1990 and became well known on Sportscenter for her catchphrase, "Go on with your bad self!" Roberts began to work for ABC News, specifically as a featured reporter, for Good Morning America in June 1995.

In 2001, Roberts received the Mel Greenberg Media Award, presented by the WBCA.^[8]

For many years, Roberts worked at both ESPN and Good Morning America, contributing to both programs. During that time, she served primarily as the news anchor at GMA. In 2005, Roberts was promoted to co-anchor of Good Morning America.

In the fall of 2005, she anchored a series of emotional reports from the Mississippi Gulf Coast after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina; her hometown of Pass Christian was especially hard hit, with her old high school completely reduced to rubble.

On February 22, 2009, she hosted the Academy Awards preshow for ABC and again in 2011.

Roberts has earned three Emmy Awards for her sportscasting work at ESPN.

On May 30, 2010 Roberts drove the Pace Car for the 2010 Indianapolis 500.^[9]

It was announced at the 2011 WNBA All-Star Game in San Antonio that Roberts will be inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the hall's class of 2012 for her contributions to and impact on the game of women's basketball through her broadcasting work.^{[10] [11]}

Health status

On July 31, 2007, Roberts announced during the live broadcast of Good Morning America that she had been diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. She noticed a lump through self-examination the day they were working on Joel Siegel's farewell on Good Morning America. (Siegel died from colon cancer.)^[12] Roberts underwent surgery on August 3, and six days later it was announced by ABC News that Roberts was planning to return to the anchor desk on August 13.

Roberts announced on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on September 5, 2007, that she was healthier now than before the cancer but still faces future treatment. She also revealed that a mammogram did not detect her cancer but a follow-up ultrasound did. Roberts shaved her head during chemotherapy treatment. She wore a wig on Good Morning America because she "didn't want to distract viewers from the news." On April 21, 2008, Roberts stopped wearing the wig. As of January 10, 2008, Roberts had completed her eight chemotherapy treatments. She then had 6½ weeks of radiation treatment, which was completed as of March 28, 2008.^{[citation needed]}

In early 2007 Roberts published a book, From the Heart: Seven Rules to Live By,^[13] of which she said, "I'm a big believer that you have to put yourself in position for good things to happen to you." She discussed the book and her Christian faith on the CBN.^[14]

Special guest appearance on Hannah Montana Forever

Roberts guest starred as herself on Hannah Montana (season 4) in the tenth episode of the season, "Can You See the Real Me?", in which Roberts interviewed Miley Stewart (Miley Cyrus) about her former double life as Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana.

References

1. ^ Robin Roberts Goes Back Home ABC News, September 21, 2005
2. ^ Kilmer, Wendy (2006-04-15). "Robin Roberts enamors ACU crowd". Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas. http://www.acu.edu/news/2006/060415_robinrobertsfollow.html. Retrieved 2011-06-14. 
3. ^ "Good Morning America’s Roberts Flies in Honor of Her Tuskegee Airman Father". Tuskeegee University. November 18, 2003. http://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/story.asp?S=1531730. Retrieved 2010-08-31. 
4. ^ Roberts, Kimberly C. (2007). "ABC’s Robin Roberts Recalls The Relationship That Shaped Her Life" (PDF). The Philadelphia Tribune. http://www.tuskegeeairmen.org/uploads/RobinRoberts.pdf. Retrieved 2010-08-31. 
5. ^ "Southeastern to honor ABC-TV's Robin Roberts with jersey retirement". Southeastern Louisiana University News Release. 2011-01-20. http://www.selu.edu/news_media/news_releases/2011/jan/roberts_jersey_retir.html. Retrieved 2011-02-05.  The ceremony was in the Southeastern Louisiana University Center on February 5.
6. ^ Austin College
7. ^ WCHS ABC affiliate
8. ^ "Winner of the Mel Greenberg Media Award". WBCA. http://www.wbca.org/Releases/MelGreen2009.html. Retrieved August 2, 2009. ^{[dead link]}
9. ^ Kelly, Paul (March 25, 2010). "'Good Morning America' Anchor Robin Roberts To Pace 2010 Indy 500". Indianopolis Motor Speedway. http://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/indy500/news/show/37127-good-morning-america-anchor-robin-roberts-to-pace-2010-indy-500/. Retrieved 2010-08-29. 
10. ^ "Class of 2012 announced during the 2011 WNBA All-Star Game". Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. http://www.wbhof.com/pdf/Class%20of%202012%20Press%20Release.pdf. Retrieved 24 July 2011. 
11. ^ Associated Press. "Staley, ABC’s Roberts among 2012 class of Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/staley-abcs-roberts-among-2012-class-of-womens-basketball-hall-of-fame/2011/07/23/gIQA1SPbVI_story.html. Retrieved 24 July 2011. ^{[dead link]}
12. ^ Good Morning America July 31, 2007
13. ^ Roberts, Robin (2007). From the heart: Seven rules to live by. New York: Hyperion.  The revised edition: Roberts, Robin (2011). From the heart: Eight rules to live by. New York: Hyperion. 
14. ^ Ross, Scott; Richardson, Renelle (2011). "Robin Roberts: A Simple Child of God". 700 Club. http://www.cbn.com/700club/guests/interviews/robin_roberts_061907.aspx. Retrieved 2011-06-14. 

External links

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• Robin Roberts profile provided by ABC News
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• National Women's History Project biography
• Roberts Q&A on post-Katrina trip

Preceded by Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer

Good Morning America co-anchor May 9, 2005 – Present with Charles Gibson (until June 28, 2006), Diane Sawyer (until December 11, 2009) and George Stephanopoulos (since December 14, 2009)

Succeeded by Incumbent

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Name	Roberts, Robin Rene
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Short description	American television personality
Date of birth	November 23, 1960
Place of birth	Andalusia, Alabama, U.S.
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