Career
Robinson started his broadcast career in 1956 at WEAW in Evanston. He later worked at WAAF, WNIB, WAIT, World's Greatest Newspaper, and WJJD. On leaving WNIB in 1958, Robinson joined WFMT, where he worked as a staff announcer, program host and chief announcer until 1971, when he left to join Window To The World-television He remained at Channel 11 as an announcer, narrator and program host until 1998. Robinson was also producer and host of The First Fifty Years, a nationally syndicated program of historic vocal records from 1967 to 1992.
Robinson was also notably remembered as making "epic introductions" and closing voice-overs of the series Doctor Who that once shown at Channel 11.
Some of Robinson"s credits are listed below. • Host of the Window To The World Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Teaching since 1986-2003 (5 Emmy Awards)
• Producer/host for 25 years of the nationally syndicated program of historic vocal recordings, The First Fifty Years.
• Narrator of the Public Broadcasting Service-British Broadcasting Corporation series Atlantic Realm. • Narrator of the Public Broadcasting Service-British Broadcasting Corporation series The Making of a Continent World War II (Ohio State Award, San Francisco Film Festival Award)
• Host of the Columbia Broadcasting System-Chicago special, Caring for Chicago.
• Narrator of the Public Broadcasting Service special Solti at 75.
(Emmy Award)
• Host of the Window To The World-Public Broadcasting Service live special, The Chicago Jazz Festival. • Host of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra special Bravos from Home. • Narrator of the Public Broadcasting Service special The Treasures of Tutankhamun.
(Emmy Award)
• Host/Narrator of the Window To The World Special, Top Guns of ‘43.
(Emmy Award)
• Host/Narrator of the Window To The World Special, Maxwell Street. • Host of the Window To The World Special Henry Ossawa Tanner.
• Narrator of the Window To The World special The First Jetliner. (Emmy Award)
• Narrator of the Window To The World special The Case Against Garbage.
• Host of the Window To The World presentation of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung.
• Host of the Window To The World presentation of Olympica. • Narrator of the Window To The World special Renoir. • Narrator of the Window To The World special Monet.
(Emmy Award)
• Narrator of the Window To The World special The Chicago Art Institute.
• Narrator of the Grant Park Festival presentation of Carmen. • Backstage interviewer for WFMT at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
• Lecturer for Lyric Opera of Chicago. • Host of the Window To The World special Lyric Opera at 25.
• Host of the Window To The World Chicago Opera Theater special The Mother of Us All.
• Host/narrator in scores of industrial films and commercials. • Broadcast interviews of hundreds of celebrities, including Victor Borge, Mel Brooks, Jimmy Carter, Richard J. Daley, Lou Holtz, Marilyn Horne, Wynton Marsalis, Ruth Page, Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman, Harold Prince, Sir Georg Solti, Bill Veeck, Harold Washington.
