Marta Waller (born September 26, 1952)[1] is an American marketing professional, educator, and a former broadcast news reporter, producer, and anchor, most notably with KTLA in Los Angeles, California, where she worked from 1984 to 2008.
[1] Waller began her career in broadcast news in 1971 when she took a job as a production assistant at the KNBC Documentary Unit.
Waller's long career at KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles began as a freelance news writer in December 1984.
She anchored the weekend edition of KTLA "News at Ten" with Larry McCormick from September 1993 until February 1995, when the O. J. Simpson murder trial began.
At the conclusion of the trial, Marta continued anchoring the noon newscast and began co-anchoring "News at Ten" with Hal Fishman.
She later assumed a new role at the station as their Internet Anchor covering the Phil Spector trial, the Southern California firestorms and the O. J. Simpson hearings in Las Vegas on KTLA and the Los Angeles Times websites.
In 1997, Waller sued Tribune Broadcasting, alleging age and sex discrimination and defamation in her being stripped of her anchor duties at the station.
In the Fall of 2021, she returned to Europe to continue teaching and coaching international students in Paris and London.