Dream Interview: Oprah Winfrey. Dream Job: Pilot. Role Model: My mom. Hidden Talent: I can wiggle my ears. What I Wanted To Be Growing Up: I wanted to go to "waitress college." Birthplace: Newark, Ohio. Favorite Sports Teams: Ohio State, St. Louis Cardinals. Favorite Author: Maya Angelou. Favorite Movie Star: John Travolta. First Concert: Beach Boys, at the Palace Theater. Hobbies: Travel, real estate, scrapbooking, crosswords and Sudoku. Favorite Movies: "Sixteen Candles" and "Stripes." Most Memorable Assignment: Interviewing Bruce Hornsby, then pulling camera cable for his concert. I was right beside him while he played piano!
Arica Robbins
News Anchor
Robbins started at ONN in 1999 as the meteorologist on the same programs. She is also the main reporter for ONN's regular travel and tourism feature, "Discover Ohio" and you may see her calling some play-by-play or doing some sideline reporting for the sports department.
An Ohio native, Arica began her career in corporate television at the Longaberger Company. She then took a reporting and weather forecasting job at WHIZ-TV in Zanesville. Robbins followed the winds of change to stations in Columbia, Mo., Rockford, Ill.
Robbins holds degrees in communications and business from Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio. She also has a Broadcast Meteorology degree from Mississippi State University.
Away from work, Robbins loves to spend time with her family and friends. Arica and her husband, Larry, have two daughters.
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