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Friday, January 4, 2008
Will CBS3 announce Alycia's fate today?
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Rumors are swirling at CBS3 of a major announcement today regarding the fate of embattled anchor Alycia Lane.

Lane’s been off since Dec. 17, the day after the Daily News reported on PhillyGossip.com that she had been arrested in New York around 2 a.m. after allegedly striking a female NYPD officer and calling her a “fucking dyke” during a road rage dispute between the passengers of her cab and another car that contained three plainclothes police officers.

Lane’s lawyer David Smith has said his client maintains she never hit the policewoman, not used such language. 

CBS3 announced Dec. 17 that the anchor was on a three-week vacation, two of which were previously scheduled, but the station has said there was “nothing new to report,” about whether the anchor would be on-air Monday. A station spokeswoman, asked this morning whether we should expect an announcement today, said there was “nothing to announce at this time."

Sources say Lane, who has not publicly spoken about the incident, has also had preliminary conversations in recent days with at least one high-powered Center City law firm to discuss the possibility of filing a wrongful termination suit on her behalf in the event she is fired from the station.

Most TV reporters and anchors have what's known as a morals clause in their contracts that are typically phrased in legalese, but which loosely translate into “Don’t get arrested or do anything else to embarrass the station.”

 

Posted by Dan Gross @ 9:19 AM  Permalink | File Under: Breaking News | 26 comments
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Posted 10:02 AM, 01/04/2008
Diego
Dan, you are doing a great job staying on top of this story. Your parents must be very proud.
Posted 10:36 AM, 01/04/2008
Crazy
Give it a rest! No wonder she is always in the news, you have nothing else to report on? My favorite line you and others use "Sources" SPYs would be a better term.
Posted 10:58 AM, 01/04/2008
John
A little too much coverage on this story?... probably. However, it is news to some extent since Lane is a local celebrity... and also in trouble frequently. She is the Lohan of Philly. Booker is an idiot too.
Posted 11:00 AM, 01/04/2008
Imx
Whoa. Dan... it looks like you have upset two of Alycia's drunk friends, Diego and Crazy. Funny how someone who calls themself "Crazy" would think his or her opinion would be taken seriously. Sources say Alycia should resign, pose for Playboy, then vanish into oblivion. Her 15 minutes are up.
Posted 11:02 AM, 01/04/2008
John
She's nothing but trouble - get rid of her...
Posted 11:05 AM, 01/04/2008
Imx
Whoa. Dan... it looks like you have upset two of Alycia's drunk friends, Diego and Crazy. Funny how someone who calls themself "Crazy" would think his or her opinion would be taken seriously. Sources say Alycia should resign, pose for Playboy, then vanish into oblivion. Her 15 minutes are up.
Posted 11:31 AM, 01/04/2008
Thomas
She should resign before she makes an even bigger fool of herself. All of her credibility is gone. Who can even take here seriously now. Let's be honest, we never considered her a real anchor anyway, just a pretty face to look at. And those idiots on q102. Wow, learn to play real music instead of shuffling the top 40 every 3 hours.My Ipod does better work than you, and is funnier.
Posted 11:48 AM, 01/04/2008
Rich
I can sum this up in one word.....PLAYBOY!
Posted 11:51 AM, 01/04/2008
Alexandra
She's not even guilty. I know of one incident when a friend of mine was charged w/ assault when all he did was blow a horn on New Year's. The cop roughed him up really bad and MY FRIEND was charged w/ assault? They do this all the time to cover their ass. I bet you what happened was the cop roughed HER up and then when she found out Lane was a reporter charged her w/ assault. This happen ALL THE TIME!
Posted 11:56 AM, 01/04/2008
j.
Interesting...she screwed herself though with these bizarre displays. There is always someone younger, prettier and more talented just waiting to swoop down...everyone is replaceable.
Posted 11:58 AM, 01/04/2008
J
I can sum it in 2 words Naked News
Posted 12:20 PM, 01/04/2008
Molly
So then, Diego and Crazy, just what is a gossip columnist supposed to report--hard news, sports, weather?
Posted 12:27 PM, 01/04/2008
BRIAN
I hear she wants to be a Howard Stern reporter
Posted 12:36 PM, 01/04/2008
Diego
Molly is easy.
Posted 01:00 PM, 01/04/2008
Anonymous
Alycia Lane is a disgrace and if CBS 3 allows her to go back on air they are an even bigger disgrace and condoning such actions. She has been nothing but negative publicity since she started and is easily replaceable, nothing special about her. She was extrmemely politically incorrect in a position where she is supposed to hold herself at the utmost level of moral. She made her bed and now she must lie in it, just like the rest of us would have to. No special treatment here........
Posted 01:03 PM, 01/04/2008
BigDaddyLane
She's too old anyway. She's all used up. She should just go start a family.
Posted 01:09 PM, 01/04/2008
Not
I liked how her q102 BF was talking about how Brittney Spears is a wreck this morning...what's it like to date one?
Posted 01:28 PM, 01/04/2008
JOSEPH
Ms. Lane obviously has "issues" . Twice on Dr. Phil ? Time to say goodbye .
Posted 01:52 PM, 01/04/2008
Dave
I hope she gets fired and lands a job on the Playboy channel. She would probably make alot more money, too.
Posted 02:18 PM, 01/04/2008
Anonymous
She needs to get over herself....
Posted 02:40 PM, 01/04/2008
Erleen
Just put her on the list with Britney, Lindsay and Paris!!They are all celeberties who have all this money and choose to screw up their lives. Any of us would love to be making Ms. Lanes' salary of $700,000 a year. I know that if I were making that kind of money, I would not be on the streets of New York, screaming at some undercover cop. I'd be shopping or on a beach in Hawaii!!
Posted 03:34 PM, 01/04/2008
her
bigdaddylane... shes getting to that point where she may be too old to have babies.. she couldnt find a man that would have her for long term commitment.. nut cases usually can not...
Posted 03:40 PM, 01/04/2008
Michael and Judy
She probably resigned over all of this and that's the price of being in the public eye, unfortunately. If that's the case then we can't blame her after the deluge of criticism and harassment. It's time to move on regardless of what happens. Who knows, she may end up on another station just like a former weather man.
Posted 07:27 AM, 01/05/2008
bling
The shark lawyers are circling now and the boys who run CBS3 ought to be getting out the checkbook as they will be writing her a real big check to go away. No way station management wants this to be a front page story for months on end as law suits work their way through the court system. Face it- she won. She is going to get a real big payday just to leave.
Posted 08:59 AM, 01/06/2008
anne
Isn't Diego the guy that works with Alycia's boyfriend Booker? Yea, he's on that morning show on q102. Good job protecting your boss's girlfriend!
Posted 06:28 PM, 10/14/2008
qt8625
I wonder what she is doing now?
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