WCBS-TV news anchor Dana Tyler to step down from daily duties after 34 years
Dana Tyler, a mainstay presence on WCBS-TV evening newscasts for decades, will leave her daily anchoring duties later this month, according to a report.
Tyler, the Emmy Award-winning journalist who co-anchors the 6 p.m. news broadcast on New York City’s Channel 2 alongside Dick Brennan, will give up her chair after 34 years at the station.
Brennan, who has been with the station since 2012, will also be replaced during the 6 p.m. time slot.
Maurice DuBois and Kristine Johnson, who co-anchor the 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts, will expand their time slot through 6:30 p.m.
Tyler, the longest tenured anchor in the history of the CBS affiliate, will contribute stories and interviews on the channel’s over-the-air broadcast as well as its streaming platform, according to an internal memo circulated by the station.
News of the memo was first reported by Newsday.
The Post has sought comment from Tyler and the station.
Tyler, 65, joined WCBS-TV in 1990 after relocating from her hometown of Columbus, Ohio, where she worked as a report and anchor for local station WBNS/10.
She is the great-granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Tyler, the first black man to have been accredited as a news correspondent during World War I and who later went on to become assistant postmaster general of the United States — the highest-ranking black official in the federal government at the time.
On Feb. 26, 1993, Dana Tyler was on the air for five straight hours, anchoring the station’s coverage of the basement bombing of the World Trade Center.
Channel 2 was the only local station to have its news anchors cover the attack because its competitors — the NBC and ABC affiliates — couldn’t broadcast because their transmitters, which were on the North Tower of the World Trade Center, were knocked down.
WCBS-TV’s transmitter was atop the Empire State Building.
In 2016, Tyler went on a months-long hiatus following her publicized breakup with former Genesis rocker Phil Collins.
According to reports, Collins abruptly ended his 10-year romance with Tyler to reconcile with ex-wife, Orianne Cevey.
Collins and Cevey then broke up again in 2020 and she married Thomas Bates.
In 2022, Cevey demanded that her ex pay $20 million after Collins sold a sprawling Miami Beach waterfront estate they once shared.
