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Dana Tyler, who has owned a home in Stamford, turns 55 on Sunday. The anchor and reporter was born Nov. 24, 1958, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Tyler began her career at WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio and later moved to WCBS in 1990 as weekend anchor and reporter. She hosted "Eye on New York," a half-hour weekly community affairs program for WCBS. In WCBS she worked as an anchor and reporter for 23 years. She also worked with WXYZ, as well as several annual local specials: CBS 2 at Tony's, CBS 2 at the Met and Tunnel to Towers Run and currently anchors CBS-2 News at 6 p.m. She was known to be part of the first African-American team in the New York market to anchor a newscast. In 2000, she guest starred as herself on "Everybody Loves Raymond" and also done a cameo in the Woody Allen film, "Small Time Crooks," as a television reporter.
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