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A native of nearby Gastonia, Robinson graduated from the University of Maryland in 1983 and worked at several Charlotte radio stations before landing the morning drive-time slot at WBT in 1992.
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He was also the public address announcer for the NFL"s Carolina Panthers from the team"s inception in 1995 until midway through the 2009 season. He also called the first seven editions of the Meineke Carolina Care Bowl (known as the Continental Tire Bowl from 2002 to 2004). In 1997, he moved to then-sister television station WBTV as an anchor and reporter.
After being passed over for a promotion, he moved to WCBD-television in Charleston, South Carolina as the main evening anchor.
He commuted to Charlotte for the next two years for Panthers games. In 2006, he moved back to Charlotte as morning host at WDYT, a station in nearby Kings Mountain that had recently boosted its daytime power to cover Charlotte.
Almost two years into this job, he was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma in his throat. Doctors managed to catch it before it spread, however.
Having been laid off from WDYT, he then moved to WKQC as morning host in December 2008.
In December 2009, Robinson told The Charlotte Observer that he"d been abusing drugs almost continuously since he was 12, primarily heroin and cocaine. He said that his habit got so severe that while he worked in Charleston, he was often high on the air. His estranged second wife believes his spiral into drug abuse was due to being molested for five years by a man who coached him in basketball.
