Carlos Amezcua is an American journalist best known for his sixteen years as the original co-anchor for the KTLA Morning News,[1] with Barbara Beck as his co-anchor,[2] Mark Kriski handling weather and Sam Rubin reporting on the entertainment industry.
Managing executive Steve Bell described the show as, "the first one with the crazy anchors".
[3][4] In September 2007, Amezcua left KTLA for KTTV, where he replaced John Beard as anchor of the Fox 11 News at 10:00 pm; he left KTTV in 2013 to establish his own media company, Carlos Media Corporation.
[1][11] He served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Guatemala/El Salvador from 1973 to 1975 and attended Brigham Young University studying journalism (1975).
[12] He also read the Christmas story with Chuck Henry for a program associated with the lighting of the Los Angeles California Temple in 1998.