Dianne's broadcasting career began as a little girl, fascinated with the red blinking light on a radio tower a couple of miles from her grandmother's home in Seminole, Texas. Her parents had met at the local radio station, when radio brought in performers who played music live in the studio.

A songwriter and singer, now, her parents encouraged her in music and the arts

Her mom and dad were both adventurous, living in various places such as many cities and towns in Texas (Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, Houston, Waco, Lubbock, Odessa, and many little towns in between), in New Mexico (Santa Fe, Alamogordo area, Clovis), Arizona (Phoenix), and finally settled on their little heaven on earth surrounded by 14,000-foot high mountains, in southern Colorado.

Dianne left the San Luis Valley for over 20 years, following a broadcasting career and pursuing an education in Journalism/Mass Communications at New Mexico State University.

Her children were born in Grants, NM, where they lived for 13 years, where Dianne began her career in radio at KMIN an AM station just off I-40. Three years there, then she went to work at KYKN, a light rock station

Then off to Texas to another radio station, KPET in La Mesa, TX, KIKZ/KSEM in Seminole (and no, you can't really go home, but if you do, it won't be the same) and moonlighting for the Lubbock Avalanche Journal doing news for Gaines and Yoakum Counties.

KZOR in Hobbs (driving 90 miles a day round trip to work at a 100,000 watt FM, where she served as News Director and Morning team co-host), then to television KVBA in Alamogordo, NM serving as Sales rep, Sales Manager, Producer, Writer, Stage manager, Production Manager, prayer warrior, on-air talent, and a few other hats worn there.

While working at that station, KVBA (a Christian television station), she moonlighted as a news video correspondent for ABC affiliate KOAT TV in Albuquerque,NM and CBS affiliate, KBIM, in Roswell, NM, while building a video editing studio in her home and starting a video production company.

After leaving Alamogordo, she eventually moved back "home" to Colorado, working as a marketing consultant for several years before going to work for KSLV Radio first as part-time news anchor, then full-time Sales Representative.

After leaving there, she started an Internet Radio station called Meander Radio in 2005, which became a huge success - listeners tuned in for more than 38,000 hours a month - after she changed the genre to clean comedy.

The Copyright Royalty Board was appointed by Congress and their decision to raise performance royalty rates 300% for Dianne's and most Internet stations was the nail in the coffin for that station.

(At the time, Dianne was in negotiations with Entercom to provide content for their HD stations in nine major U.S. markets), so Dianne shut it down, to pursue another niche genre station- Solace Radio

The Father's path is an amazing one to follow.

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