Alycia Lane

Alycia Lane (born May 10, 1972) co-anchors the weekday 6 P.M. and 11 P.M. newscasts. She joined the station in September 2003 as the 6 P.M. and 11 P.M. co-anchor from WSVN in Miami, where she was the weekend anchor. She hosts a weekly segment which airs at 4 P.M. entitled “A Woman’s View.”
Lane is of Puerto Rican descent on her mother’s side and Welsh descent on her father’s. She is a native of Long Island, New York. She has a Master’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Albany where she graduated with honors. She is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and speaks fluent Spanish.
Other minority women in the Philadelphia market include WPVI’s Lisa Thomas-Laury, the first African-American woman anchor, and WCAU’s Renee Chenault-Fattah. In Lane and Chenault-Fattah, both KYW-TV and WCAU-TV offer female minority co-anchors opposite solo anchor Jim Gardner on WPVI.
In June 2006 Lane signed a six-year deal to remain with the station.
In high school, Lane was a Sachem Flaming Arrow Cheerleader. Lane enjoys physical fitness and has a love of animals.
Active in the community, Lane volunteers her time locally to support the Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure held each Mother’s Day in Philadelphia and has also been instrumental in bringing the message of early detection of breast cancer to the Spanish-speaking community as moderator of the first Latinas For The Cure workshop in 2004.

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