Description
Marta Waller is a former television reporter and anchor, most notably with KTLA where she worked since 1984.
During her time, she provided medical reports and special features for KTLA. She later assumed a new role at the station as their Internet Anchor covering the Phil Spector trial, the recent Southern California fire storm and the Simpson hearings in Las Vegas on KTLA and the Los Angeles Times web sites. On the first day of the Southern California fires KTLA registered nearly 490,000 page views in the first 12 hours of the coverage.
Waller began her career in television news in 1972 when she took a job as a production assistant at the KNBC Documentary Unit. She then trained as a sound technician, becoming one of the first women to be admitted to membership in IATSE # 695. She freelanced for all the major networks, and traveled with CBS News, "60 Minutes" and CBS Reports.
In 1982, Waller changed her focus. She went to work at KCOP, Channel 13, in Los Angeles as the assignment editor.
In 1984 Waller worked in San Francisco at KRON as a freelance writer. Her next move was to KNXT in Los Angeles also as a freelance writer.
Born
September 26th, 1952 in (Age 72)