Dianne Nicolini’s is a career of “firsts”. She was the first female full-time announcer on KXTR in Kansas City, on KKHI in San Francisco, and on KDFC, where she launched a run as a popular midday host on the classical-music station in 1994. She could also claim to be the “first live human on the radio station” at KDFC, which had provided automated programming for years.
An Oakland native, Nicolini received a BA in Dramatic Art at UC Berkeley and an MA in Theater at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. It was while working on her graduate degree that she answered an ad for a part-time overnight DJ slot in Kansas City, and the rest is history.