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About Dick Robinson
Dick Robinson, in addition to being a radio and TV personality, is President of Robinson Media, which has owned New England radio stations and Robinson Media Satellite Division. Dick is Founder and former Chairman of Connecticut School of Broadcasting, the nation's oldest and largest group of communication schools, with 13 locations.
Dick also hosts "Dick Robinson's American Standards by the Sea," an internationally syndicated two-hour radio show which blends the artistry and interviews of the greats like Sinatra, Bennett, Basie, Fitzgerald, Torme, Damone, Keely Smith, John and Bucky Pizzarelli, Buddy Greco, Ann Hampton Callaway, Jack Jones, Cleo Laine, Diane Shuur, Michael Feinstein, and Diana Krall. The show is broadcast from Dick Robinson's hand-designed, high-tech radio and TV studio on board Robinson Media's Motor Yacht, "Airwaves," which is docked at different ports from Maine to the Bahamas throughout the year. The show, which can be seen and heard 24-7 on "yachtamusic.com" also airs on great radio stations coast-to-coast and beyond. As a high note, Dick was recently inducted into the Big Band Hall of Fame.
In the Palm Beaches, Dick Robinson is President of the American Heart Association, Vice President of Ballet Florida, on the Board of the American Cancer Society, Angels of Charity, Palm Beach Pops, and Alexander Dreyfoos School of the Arts. This past season, besides receiving the Mental Health Association's first-ever Margaret C. Donnelley Financial Development Award, he was Co-Chairman of the Mental Health Ball and Salvation Army Gala as well as Co-Chairman of the Simon Wiesenthal Centers 2002 event featuring keynote speaker Brian Michael Jenkins, world-renowned terrorist expert. His topic: Terrorism vs. Humanity. Dick is also Vice President/Communications of Shaare Zedek Hospital and an underwriter of Palm Beach charity fund-raisers including Red Cross, Boys and Girls Club, Friends of Abused Children, Adopt-A-Family, Children's Home Society, and Bascom-Palmer, to name a few. In addition, Dick was this year's Co-Chairman of the Simon C. Fireman/Dick Robinson Golf Classic benefiting The Hanley Center for which radio and TV personality Don Imus served as Honorary Chairman. Dick is also a member of the International Society of Palm Beach and the Alexis de Tocqueville Society (Community Chest-United Way).
In Connecticut, Dick Robinson was also appointed to the CEO Advisory Council of Community Health Charities of Connecticut and remains an involved past President, still serving on the Board of the Hundred Club of Connecticut. The Hundred Club of Connecticut is a charitable, nonprofit organization chartered in 1967 for the specific purpose of assisting the families of police officers, firefighters, and correction officers who lose their lives in the line of duty.
