The Los Angeles County medical examiner said this week that the soul assault that claimed Sam Rubin, a long-time KTLA pleasure writer, was caused by coronary artery disease.
The 64-year-old reporter was hospitalized on May 10 with chest pain, his former place reported. Later that morning, he was declared dead in the emergency room. A source with knowledge of the time later informed The Times that he had respiratory arrest at his West Valley house and was taken to the hospital.
The medical examiner’s report this year confirms that his death was normal and names the complications as ischemic heart disease, narrowed vessels, and coronary artery disease.
” Very simply, Sam was KTLA”, outlet Frank Buckley said when announcing Rubin’s death on the air a few hours later. The newspaper is currently crying.
Rubin was born Feb. 16, 1960, in San Diego, went to high class in L. A. and attended Occidental College. He was a key part of “KTLA 5 Morning News”, a pioneering trial in early-morning television. Local news outlets typically focused on evening shows before the show’s debut in 1991 because they believed morning people were more likely to watch national programs like NBC’s” The Today Show” or ABC’s” Good Morning America.”
Three months after Rubin started the then-new program, he quickly gained a reputation for his nice personality and neutralizing interviews. According to co-anchor Carlos Amezcua, Rubin was the episode’s” connective tissues” and helped provide it the feeling of L. A. sincerity it needed.
” Sam” helped the “KTLA Morning News” link to Los Angeles as a local Angeleno who loved L.A. and knew the area better than anyone else on set, Amezcua said.” What can always be said about Sam is that he helped the’ KTLA Morning News ‘ connect to the KTLA Morning News. ” We had L. A. in our phone words, and Sam always said that we knew L. A. and L. A. knew us”.
Immediately, the morning news program became quite a success that KTTV Channel 11 started one as well, kicking off a morning-show ratings battle.
Outside of lens selection, Rubin’s life revolved around his home, Amezcua said.
Sam and his relatives were Sam and his home, Amezcua said,” and I have five kids with them all, and they all knew each other.” They loved him because he was a great member of their family. We all loved him”.
Rubin won numerous regional Emmy Awards and a Golden Mike Award throughout his career. He even wrote histories about former First Lady Jacqueline Onassis and professional Mia Farrow, as well as honours from the Southern California Broadcasters Association, the Los Angeles Press Club, and the National Hispanic Media Coalition.
He was still on the weather the day before his passing when he conducted an interview with Jane Seymour. The following morning, he called in sick.
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