In 2006, Katie Couric of CBSbecame thefirst woman to anchor a major prime time newsprogram when she joined CBS's Eveningnews, which goes on the air nightly at 6:30 PM.
Phillips joined CNN in 1999 and moved to HLN in 2012 to anchor Raising America with Kyra Phillips, a daily interactive, investigative program that focused on news impacting the modern American family.