“Good Day LA” anchor and “Extra” correspondent Melvin Robert is heading to KTLA, where he will join the “KTLA Morning News” team as entertainment anchor the week of March 17. Robert will fill the chair that had been held for decades by L.A. TV icon Sam Rubin, who died last May.
It’s a homecoming of sorts for Robert, who previously worked on “KTLA Morning News” between 2016 and 2018 and first interned there as a teenager. More recently, Robert was one of the original anchors at Spectrum News 1; he then joined “Extra” as a senior correspondent and weekend co-host in 2022, adding KTTV’s “Good Day LA” to the mix in 2023.
“It’s really exciting day to be back here,” Robert said of KTLA. “I’m a Southern California native, I grew up in Inglewood. I always dreamed of being on the ‘KTLA Morning News.’ It’s the most iconic show in LA. It is the morning show in LA. I was so grateful back then to have the opportunity to contribute as a culture and lifestyle contributor. And then I went other places, and I feel like all those other stops along the way, which were extraordinary moments in my life and in my career, led me back home, here to this place.”
Robert will work alongside “KTLA Morning News” anchors Frank Buckley and Jessica Holmes, as well as long-running weather anchor Mark Kriski. Since Rubin’s passing, entertainment news has been handled by a mix of fill-ins.
“I’m so excited to really get in here and to play and to collaborate with everyone and to make my contribution on the show,” Robert said. “And, of course, to celebrate the legacy of the ‘KTLA Morning News,’ and celebrate the legacy of Sam. There’s been some extraordinary people that have that have come and been a part of KTLA. Sam, and also [late KTLA anchor] Larry McCormick. Larry McCormick was somebody who paved the way for me as a Black anchor in Los Angeles, and he was so iconic here for so many years.
“And so to be able to just stand on the shoulders of these extraordinary giants and to celebrate Sam’s legacy every day,” he added. “Sam wrote the playbook for what this is. He was here from the beginning, since the show launched in 1991.”
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