Robert L Schwartz (1956-1994)

Robert "Bob" Richards, born Robert L. Schwartz, was an American local television personality on KSDK in St. Louis, Missouri, where he worked as chief meteorologist in the 1980s and early 1990s. He began his career as a meteorologist at WOLO-TV in Columbia, South Carolina; WATE-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee; and WSB-TV in Atlanta before leaving to join The Weather Channel. While at WATE, he earned the Seal of Approval from the American Meteorological Society. Because of The Weather Channel's connection to its founder John Coleman, former weather forecaster for ABC's Good Morning America, Richards occasionally filled in on that show's morning broadcasts. Later he moved on to the short-lived Satellite News Channel before joining KSDK in 1983.