Dana Tyler was born on November 24,1958 and is a former news anchor and reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City, where she anchored the station's 6 pm newscast.
19 Facts About Dana Tyler
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Dana Tyler first joined WCBS as a weekend anchor and reporter on July 16,1990.
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On March 27,2024, after 34 years with WCBS, Dana Tyler signed off for the last time.
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Dana Tyler was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and grew up in Worthington, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus.
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Dana Tyler's father, Waldo H Tyler, was a pharmacist in Columbus, and generated notoriety in 1966 for ending the sale of cigarettes in his store.
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Dana Tyler's great-great-grandfather was James Seneca Tyler, the first black clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives.
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Dana Tyler later attended Worthington High School and was a cheerleader.
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Dana Tyler began her journalism career as an intern at WBNS-TV in Columbus and was eventually promoted to the role of reporter in 1981.
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Dana Tyler later won an Emmy for her work on the show and, by 1986, became a co-anchor of the station's evening newscasts.
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Dana Tyler then moved to New York, and to WCBS-TV in June 1990 as weekend anchor and reporter.
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At WCBS-TV, Dana Tyler has worked alongside some of the better-known television news anchors in New York City including Jim Jensen, Brian Williams, Ernie Anastos, John Johnson, Michele Marsh, Ira Joe Fisher, and Roz Abrams.
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Dana Tyler remained in her post through a major staff reduction in November 1996 when several of the station's on-air personalities, including Marsh, Johnson, and Harris, were fired.
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Dana Tyler returned as the anchor on WCBS's 11 pm newscast, in addition to her 6 pm duties, both alongside Jim Rosenfield, on April 17,2006 as part of a shakeup in anchors where no one stayed in their old capacity.
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Dana Tyler replaced veteran WABC-TV anchor Roz Abrams, who had replaced her a few years prior only to be replaced again in 2007 by Kristine Johnson.
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Dana Tyler met drummer Phil Collins during a press junket for the Broadway musical Tarzan, and was in a relationship with him from 2006 until 2015.
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Dana Tyler received The New York Association of Black Journalists Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.
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Dana Tyler holds an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from St John's University, and received the Alumni Award for Distinguished Service from Boston University.
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Dana Tyler received two Emmy Awards in 2003 for coverage of a July 2003 shooting at New York's City Hall and for WCBS-TV's reporting on the August 2003 blackout.
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Dana Tyler had a cameo as a television reporter in Woody Allen's 2000 film Small Time Crooks.