Robin Meade

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Robin Meade
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Meade in October 2009
Born
Robin Michelle Meade

(1969-04-21) April 21, 1969 (age 54)
Education Ashland University
Malone University
Occupation(s)broadcaster, host, singer
Notable creditLead news anchor for Morning Express with Robin Meade on HLN
Spouse
Tim Yeager
(m. 1993)
Relatives Blake Shelton (fourth cousin)

Robin Michelle Meade (born April 21, 1969) is an American former television news correspondent and singer. She was the lead news anchor for HLN's morning show Morning Express with Robin Meade . Meade was a former Miss Ohio and began her broadcasting career with local stations in Ohio. She joined HLN in 2001. She won a regional Emmy Award. Meade released country music albums in 2011 and 2013.

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Early life

Meade grew up in New London, Ohio and graduated from New London High School. [1] She attended Malone University and Ashland University, [2] where she majored in radio/television production, programming and performance and minored in political science. [1] She graduated in 1991.

Career

In 1992, Meade became Miss Ohio, [3] and was a semi-finalist in the 1993 Miss America pageant. [4]

Meade began her career in broadcasting as a reporter at WMFD-TV in Mansfield, Ohio. [5] She then worked as an anchor and reporter at WCMH-TV in Columbus, Ohio, and at WJW-TV in Cleveland. [6] Later, she got a job in Miami, Florida as the morning news anchor of WSVN-TV's Today in Florida and also served as the station's noon anchor and health reporter. [6]

She went on to work at NBC Chicago affiliate WMAQ-TV where she started anchoring the morning newscasts and then co-anchored the weekend newscasts and also served as a general assignment correspondent for the station. During her tenure with the NBC affiliate, she covered the 1996 Olympics, which included special reporting on the Centennial Olympic Park bombing.

She then joined HLN, then known as CNN Headline News. Meade anchored the network's coverage of Operation Enduring Freedom as well as that from Operation Iraqi Freedom in the spring of 2003. She was based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta. Her first day on-air at HLN was September 11, 2001, the same day as the September 11 attacks. [7] Meade hosted Morning Express with Robin Meade on HLN on weekday mornings, along with Bob Van Dillen, Jennifer Westhoven, Melissa Knowles and Mike Galanos.

She wrote a book titled Morning Sunshine!: How to Radiate Confidence and Feel It Too. It was released on September 10, 2009. She has referred to it as a "non-fiction / motivational / inspirational / how-to / autobiographical book." It debuted at No. 12 on the "Advice, How-To, and Miscellaneous" section of the New York Times Best Seller list. [8]

In 2011, Meade was the moderator on the Oprah Winfrey Network show Ask Oprah's All Stars with Dr. Phil McGraw, Suze Orman and Dr. Mehmet Oz.

On June 21, 2011, Meade released a country music album titled Brand New Day. A single, "Dirty Laundry," was released to country radio. Meade was featured on the cover of the January/February 2011 issue of Making Music magazine and in an article about her experiences with recreational music. Meade sang the "Star Spangled Banner" as part of the NASCAR Sprint Cup pre-race activities for the 2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350, the 2012 Coke Zero 400 and the 2013 Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day Weekend.

On December 1, 2022, Meade and the entire HLN Atlanta team were laid off as part of CNN President Chris Licht's restructuring of the network. Meade's timeslot was replaced with a simulcast of CNN This Morning. [9]

Awards and honors

Discography

Studio albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart
positions
US Country US Heat
Brand New Day5824
Count On Me
  • Release date: June 11, 2013
  • Label: Warner Music Group
5829

Singles

YearSingleAlbum
2011"Dirty Laundry"Brand New Day
2013"Get Up"Count On Me

Authored books

Personal life

Meade married Tim Yeager on November 6, 1993.

On June 6, 2017, Meade revealed that Blake Shelton is a distant cousin. [13] [14]

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 Leggett, Steve. "About Robin Meade". Country Music Television . Viacom. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
  2. "Three players on the No. 1-ranked Ashland University women's basketball team did a live interview on HLN's Morning Express with Robin Meade, a 1991 alumna of Ashland". Ashland University. January 30, 2018. Archived from the original on January 30, 2018. Retrieved May 25, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. "Mansfield woman new Miss Ohio". Toledo Blade . Associated Press. June 15, 1992. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
  4. "Florida woman crowned Miss America". The Day . Associated Press. September 20, 1992. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
  5. "CNN Newscaster Got Her Start At WMFD". WMFD-TV . May 10, 2005. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
  6. 1 2 "Robin Meade". CNN. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
  7. Robin Meade [@RobinMeade] (September 11, 2011). "What were u doing 9-11-01?It was my 1rst day on air @HLNTV. 10yrs later still difficult 2c tape from that horrible day. #GodBlessAmerica" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  8. "Robin Meade's Morning Sunshine! a NY Times Best Seller - TVNewser". Mediabistro.com. September 26, 2009. Archived from the original on April 3, 2010. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  9. Ho, Rodney. "Robin Meade, entire Atlanta HLN news operations nixed amid CNN layoffs". Georgia Entertainment Scene Blog (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Retrieved December 1, 2022.
  10. Schatz, Aaron (September 16, 2002). "Top TV News Personalities". The Lycos 50. Lycos. Archived from the original on November 23, 2006. Retrieved December 6, 2006.
  11. "Hard News". Playboy.com . Archived from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2006.
  12. "CNN TV - Anchors/Reporters:Robin Meade" . Retrieved May 22, 2010.
  13. "HLN's Robin Meade learns that Blake Shelton is her cousin". YouTube. June 6, 2017. Archived from the original on December 22, 2021. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
  14. Robin Meade [@RobinMeade] (June 6, 2017). "I thought it was BS when they told me who my celebrity cousin is, & it WAS! @BlakeShelton! #OurJourneysHome https://t.co/ONO6tRSK8C" (Tweet). Retrieved January 11, 2018 via Twitter.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Renee Autherson
Miss Ohio
1992
Succeeded by