Garland Robinette
Garland Robinette | |
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Garland Robinette in December 2008 by Blake Nelson Boyd. | |
| Born | Charles Garland Robinette August 21, 1943 Boutte, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Education | New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts |
| Known for | Radio host, television news anchor, visual artist |
| Spouses | Susan Derveloy
(div. 1977) Debra Bresler
(m. 1988, divorced) Nancy Halstead Rhett
(m. 1994) |
Charles Garland Robinette (born August 21, 1943) is a journalist in the New Orleans area. He was recently the host of "The Think Tank" on New Orleans radio station WWL (AM).
Robinette was born in Boutte, Louisiana. He is a Hahnville High School alum and a U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War. He studied at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts and created the official poster for the 2011 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
He was a news anchor and investigative reporter on New Orleans TV station WWL-TV Channel 4 for twenty years (August 1970 until August 8, 1990). After leaving the TV station, Robinette served as head of public relations for Freeport-McMoRan in New Orleans before starting his own firm. He returned to the media in 2005 on WWL (AM) as a fill-in for David Tyree, a popular host stricken with cancer. The position became permanent when Tyree succumbed several weeks after Hurricane Katrina.