Education
A Saint Joseph, Missouri native, Swoboda attended and graduated from Missouri Western State College.
television news anchor Actress Radio commentator
A Saint Joseph, Missouri native, Swoboda attended and graduated from Missouri Western State College.
Radio and television In 1981, she received her first job as a television news anchor at WQAD-television in Moline, Illinois. In the early 1980s, Swoboda (under the name Robin Cole) worked as an anchor and reporter for then-Columbia Broadcasting System affiliate Miami TeleVision Journalism channel 4 (now National Broadcasting Company O&O and channel 6) in Miami, Florida. She then moved to Cleveland in 1986, and using her real name, became a co-anchor for then Columbia Broadcasting System affiliate WJW-television 8 alongside longtime station mainstays Tim Taylor, Dick Goddard, and Casey Coleman.
This came at a time when WJW was the top rated newscast in Cleveland, and with that Swoboda became a very popular personality, and while still with WJW in 1989, she became the co-host with Ahmad Rashad on the nationally syndicated sports interview program InSport.
During that time Swoboda also had a stint as a celebrity square on Hollywood Squares. Cover to Cover would be cancelled after 13 weeks, and after a brief stint in Kansas City, Missouri as a news anchor, Swoboda returned to Cleveland in 1996 and once again was a co-anchor of the 6 p.m. newscast on WJW (by this time now a Fox affiliate), briefly reuniting her with Taylor, Goddard, and Coleman and reforming the popular and highly rated news team from the late 1980s.
Swoboda left in 1998 to go over to Cleveland American Broadcasting Company affiliate WEWS channel 5 to become host of the station"s long running Morning Exchange. MX was cancelled in 1999, and Swoboda then became co-anchor of channel 5"s 11 p.m. newscast alongside Ted Henry.
Swoboda then left the broadcasting business all together in 2000, to spend more time with her family.
Two years later, she returned to the Cleveland media scene, this time in radio, as she became the co-host for the morning show on Cleveland Christian contemporary station WFHM-FM "95.5 The Fish". She left that job in 2005, and two years after that, returned for a third stint at WJW, this time hosting her own morning talk show originally titled That"s Life, and later changed to The Robin Swoboda Show. In January 2011, Swoboda left WJW again after a disagreement with station management over the direction of her show.
Two months later, she was named co-anchor of the 7 p.m. newscast on Cleveland National Broadcasting Company affiliate WKYC channel 3, where she worked until February 28, 2014.
1995 Ohio Broadcasters Hall of Fame inductee.