J. Paul Robinson
(Barney Grovan)

This Ohio native was a sharp cookie. He came down to Florida in 1965, had been married to Lolita, the overnight lady on WLCY. Paul Robinson went to work for Roy Nillson as a newsman. He was a damned good one. He possessed that deep voice often associated with the 1950s and 60s newsmen.

Paul was doing a little consulting on the side, prog-ramming a few radio stations in West Virginia, Ocala and in Asheville, North Carolina. It is there he met Tedd Webb, who had been doing mornings at WCWR in Clearwater.

J. Paul, who was still an employee of WLCY did his company a favor by hiring Tedd, Joey jay, John Anthony and Dangerous Danny Miller (AJ Anello) for his station WKKE in Asheville. In a matter of hours, there was no more competition.

After his career in radio, he and his wife Carlotta (Roy Nillson’s ex) started Robinson’s Racing Pigs, and would travel with Royal American Shows across the country. J Paul did the carney trick until his death from cancer in 1998.