Alycia Lane

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Alycia Lane (born May 10, 1972) co-anchors the weekday 6 P.M. and 11 P.M. newscasts on KYW-TV. She joined the station in September of 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."

She is a Latina (her mother is of Puerto Rican descent) anchor in the Philadelphia market. Other minority women in the Philadelphia market included former WPVI's Lisa Thomas-Laury, the first African-American woman anchor, and current WCAU's Renee Chenault-Fattah. (The female anchors in Philadelphia weeknights at 6 and 11 are both minorities: Lane and Chenault, the only female anchors in Philadelphia weeknights at those times because Jim Gardner at WPVI anchors on his own).

Although rumors swirled that Lane would depart KYW-TV for either an anchor job in either New York City or in North Carolina (where her husband Jay is from), in June, 2006, Lane signed a six-year deal to remain with the station.