“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.
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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…