Frank Buckley anchors KTLA’s signature broadcast, L.A.’s No.1-rated KTLA 5 Morning News, every Monday through Friday from 7-11 a.m.
Frank joined KTLA in 2005 from CNN, where he was a Los Angeles based national correspondent. Frank is the recipient of numerous awards, including Emmys for reporting, hosting and anchoring. His other honors include Golden Mike Awards from the Radio and Television News Association for writing and feature reporting; and the national Americanism in News Media Award.
In 2020, his TV program “Frank Buckley Interviews” was nominated for an Emmy Award. In 2022, he won a National Entertainment and Journalism Award from the Los Angeles Press Club for the show’s podcast. Frank’s reporting has taken him to nearly every community in Southern California and to many locations across the United States and the globe.
In March 2011, Frank traveled to Japan for KTLA and reported from Sendai immediately after it was devastated by a tsunami and earthquake. Frank has also reported for KTLA from London on a terror plot and from Tehran, Iran, to cover a historic presidential election. While at CNN, Frank’s varied assignments ranged from breaking news to politics to long-form enterprise reporting, including several CNN Presents documentaries including “Carrier at War.”
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Frank was embedded with the U.S. Navy aboard the aircraft carrier USS Constellation in the Persian Gulf. In the weeks following 9/11, he reported from the Pentagon and from warships in the Arabian Sea.
In 2004, Frank participated in CNN’s political coverage, traveling with the John Kerry and John Edwards campaigns. In 2003-2004, he frequently reported from the White House and traveled with President George W. Bush to Ireland and Turkey with the White House Press Corps. Other political reporting assignments have included Hillary Clinton’s New York Senate run and the 2000 presidential election and its aftermath when Frank was based in New York.
His spot news reporting for KTLA, CNN, and in the 1990s for KCAL-TV has included hurricanes in the Caribbean and the Carolinas; the Landers and Northridge earthquakes in California and the devastating earthquake in Kobe, Japan; wildfires in Southern California; the Los Angeles riots, the OJ Simpson case and trial; and the death of John F. Kennedy, Jr. off Martha’s Vineyard.
Prior to KTLA and CNN, Frank reported for Los Angeles station KCAL-TV (1992-1999), WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, N.C., and at KESQ-TV in Palm Springs. He has also written for the Los Angeles Times and the Detroit News. He graduated from USC with a double major in broadcast journalism and history in 1987.
Frank frequently donates his time to community organizations and has served on the boards of JDRF (now known as Breakthrough T1D), and the Los Angeles chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. He was one of the original members of the people-to-people diplomacy organization, U.S.-Japan Council, and he served on the Japanese American Leadership Delegation to Japan in 2006.
He is also a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Frank is married and is the father of two sons. He is a golfer who plays in many charity events each year, and he’s a cyclist who gives it everything he’s got to complete a 100-mile ride once each year to raise research funds to defeat type 1 diabetes
