The longtime Cleveland television personality stayed there until the she left the station in 2011 over a disagreement with station management. Swoboda anchored evening broadcasts for WEWS, and then hosted a show for a Christian radio station until 2005, when she became the host of "The Robin Swoboda Show" on WJW. She returned to Cleveland in 1996 as an anchor for WJW, only to move to WEWS Channel 5 a few years later to host "Morning Exchange" until that show was cancelled in 1999. She left Cleveland when Brian Wagner, her husband and a Browns punter, signed with the New England Patriots in 1991. She remained in that position until the early '90s, and even co-hosted a program with Ahmad Rashad in the late '80s while still working for WJW. She came to Cleveland from a station in Miami in 1986 and began anchoring news broadcasts for WJW Channel 8 with now-legendary Cleveland television figures like Dick Goddard, Tim Taylor and Casey Coleman. Robin Swoboda has had several stints with Cleveland television stations. Anderson's son, Paul Thomas Anderson, went on to direct critically acclaimed films like "Boogie Nights" and "The Master." He also did commercial voice-over work and was the announcer of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” from 1989-1995. He was the voice of ABC, recording bumpers for many of the network's shows - including most memorably “The Love Boat” - in the 1970s and ‘80s. He left Cleveland for Los Angeles in 1966 and later became a major voice-over talent. He influenced a generation of young Northeast Ohioans, including many of the musicians who went on to form punk bands such as Pere Ubu, the Dead Boys and Devo. Ghoulardi was the world's hippest horror host, a genius, lab-coat-wearing beatnik sporting a fake wig who mocked the movies he showed and punctuated his show with edgy comedy. Ernie Anderson remains one of the best-known personalities in Cleveland TV history thanks to Ghoulardi, the persona he created to host "Shock Theater" on WJW Channel 8 from 1963 to 1966.
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