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Your Own AIM IconAs KTU's top-rated on-air personality, heard weekdays from 9 AM to 2 PM, Diane Prior is a friend to millions, but her style belies the size of her audience.
"I try to relate to people on a one-on-one level," Prior says. "I think radio encourages that kind of rapport with the audience. On my program, I take calls from listeners. Mostly it's a song request, but sometimes it's a person looking for relationship advice." She approaches her daily program as if New York were a small town, not the nation's largest metropolis.Diane Prior is a rare mixture of compassion and a strong drive for excellence from success. The combination was instilled in her at an early age. A tough childhood life prompted her to leave home at age 18. The alienation she felt then enables her to relate to and empathize with listeners. "My father was a successful restaurant operator whose profits went up his nose. He got my younger sister hooked on drugs, and eventually she became psychotic and killed herself. I ran away from home with a singer in a disco band during my junior year at St. John's. I traveled with the band for two years and then enrolled in Broadcasting School at the American Academy Philadelphia."Prior got her first job in Daytona Beach, Florida in 1979. In 1981, Prior got a job in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She soon began sending tapes of her work to the legendary 92 WKTU in New York, forerunner to today's WKTU. Within a year, she had landed a weekend gig at WKTU and spent the next year and a half working seven days a week; weekdays at WAYV in Atlantic City and weekends at New York's WKTU.Eventually Scott Shannon heard Prior and offered her one of the coveted disc jockey positions that would catapult Z-100 (WHTZ) from worst to first in the 1980s. Prior stayed with Z-100 through 1989, when she took a break from full-time work to get married and raise a family. Her daughter, Holly, was born in January 1993.Prior returned to broadcasting full time at WKTU in 1996, working nights. She reconnected immediately. Shortly after joining the new WKTU, Prior was reassigned to the midday program.Diane Prior loves her work, and it shows on the air. She has appeared at thousands of night clubs and charity events in the New York metropolitan area.She continues to be in demand as a commercial spokesperson as well.In a decade at WKTU, Prior has shared the stage at station events with the top names of musical entertainment including Ricky Martin, Cher, Jennifer Lopez, Enrique Iglesias, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Lionel Richie, Marc Anthony, Donna Summer, Chaka Kahn, Gloria Estefan, the Pussycat Dolls, Jon Secada, and Mariah Carey. She has been honored by the Museum of Television and Radio. She has been nominated time after time for New York's Metro AIR (Achievements in Radio) awards, and won the award for the "Best Midday Show" in 2001.MySpace Design by Joshua B
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