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

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Early life

Broadcasting career

Health status

References

External links

Early life

Roberts grew up in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where she played basketball and tennis among other sports, and graduated from high school as the class salutatorian. Her father was one of the Tuskegee Airmen.
Roberts attended Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana, graduating ''cum laude'' in 1983 with a degree in communications. She followed in the footsteps of older sister Sally-Ann Roberts, an anchor at the CBS affiliate WWL in New Orleans.
She also played on the university's women's basketball team, ending her career as the school's third all-time leading scorer with 1,446 points and 1,034 career rebounds, putting her into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame. 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.

Broadcasting career

Roberts began her career in 1983 as a sports anchor and reporter for WDAM-TV in Hattiesburg, Mississippi ^[1]. In 1984, she moved to WLOX-TV in Biloxi, Mississippi.
In 1986, she was sports anchor and reporter for WSMV-TV in Nashville, Tennessee ^[2]. She was also a sports anchor and reporter at WAGA-TV in Atlanta, Georgia from 1988-1990. She was also a radio host for radio station V103 while in Atlanta.
She joined ESPN as a sportscaster in February 1990, and began to work for ABC News, specifically as a featured reporter, for ''Good Morning America'' in June 1995.
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.
Roberts has earned three Emmy Awards for her sportscasting work at ESPN.
In 2007, Roberts published her first book ''From the Heart: Seven Rules to Live By''.

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). ^[3] Roberts underwent surgery August 3, and on August 9 ABC News announced she was planning to return to the anchor desk on Monday, August 13.
Roberts announced on the The_Ellen_DeGeneres_Show on September 5 2007 that she is more healthy now than before the cancer but still faces future treatment. She also revealed that the mammogram did not detect her cancer but a follow up ultrasound did.

References

1.
Austin College
2. WCHS ABC affiliate
3. ''Good Morning America'' July 31 2007

External links

★ IMG Speakers

★ Robin Roberts profile provided by ABC News

★ National Women's History Project biography

★ Roberts Q&A on post-Katrina trip

★ Robin Roberts interview, Sports Interview