The guts assault that killed longtime KTLA leisure reporter Sam Rubin was as a consequence of coronary artery illness, the Los Angeles County health worker stated this week.
The 64-year-old newsman was hospitalized on Could 10 with abdomen ache, his former station reported. He was pronounced lifeless within the emergency room later that morning. On the time, a supply acquainted with the state of affairs instructed The Instances that he had cardiac arrest at his West Valley house and was taken to the hospital.
The health worker’s report this week confirms his method of loss of life was pure, and lists the trigger as ischemic coronary heart illness — narrowed arteries — and coronary artery illness.
“Fairly merely, Sam was KTLA,” anchor Frank Buckley stated when asserting Rubin’s loss of life on the air just a few hours later. “The newsroom is in tears proper now.”
Rubin was born Feb. 16, 1960, in San Diego, went to highschool in L.A. and attended Occidental Faculty. He was a central member of “KTLA 5 Morning Information,” a pioneering experiment in early-morning broadcasting. Earlier than the present launched in 1991, native information stations normally targeted on night newscasts, believing that morning viewers had been extra prone to watch nationwide reveals corresponding to NBC’s “The Right this moment Present” or ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
As soon as Rubin joined the then-new program three months in, he quickly earned a popularity for his disarming interviews and heat persona. In response to co-anchor Carlos Amezcua, Rubin was the present’s “connective tissue” and helped give it the sense of L.A. authenticity it wanted.
“What can at all times be stated about Sam is that he helped the ‘KTLA Morning Information’ hook up with Los Angeles as a local Angeleno who cherished L.A. and knew town higher than anybody else on set,” Amezcua stated. “We had L.A. in our name letters, and Sam at all times stated that we knew L.A. and L.A. knew us.”
Quickly, the morning information program grew to become so successful that KTTV Channel 11 began one as properly, kicking off a morning-show scores battle.
Outdoors of digital camera vary, Rubin’s life revolved round his household, Amezcua stated.
“I’ve 5 youngsters they usually all knew Sam and his household, and Sam was simply so beneficiant together with his time,” Amezcua stated. “He was a very good household man they usually cherished him. All of us cherished him.”
Over the course of his profession, Rubin received a number of native Emmy Awards and a Golden Mike Award. He additionally acquired honors from the Southern California Broadcasters Assn., the Los Angeles Press Membership and the Nationwide Hispanic Media Coalition, and he penned biographies on former First Girl Jacqueline Onassis and actor Mia Farrow.
He was nonetheless on the air the day earlier than his loss of life, when he interviewed actor Jane Seymour. The next day, he referred to as in sick.
