Sam Rubin, KTLA journalist and longtime entertainment anchor, dies at 64

Sam Rubin, a veteran journalist who anchored KTLA’s leisure coverage for extra than 30 many years, has died. He was 64.

KTLA anchor Frank Buckley verified the reporter’s demise throughout an emotional announcement on Friday. Buckley identified as his colleague’s loss of life “shocking” and “hard to comprehend in the instant.”

“Quite just, Sam was KTLA,” a tearful Buckley extra in advance of praising Rubin’s cheery identity.

Buckley explained all through Thursday’s broadcast that Rubin called in ill from Friday’s demonstrate but did not share further details.

An Emmy-profitable journalist, Rubin joined KTLA’s “Morning News” system in 1991. He graduated from Occidental University in Los Angeles with a diploma in American reports and rhetoric.

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