I’m the midday chick on Now 100.5 in Sacramento and Play 98.7 in Tampa.

I’m also a mom to the cutest little 7 year old girl ever!   Her name is Kyla – she rocks!!

This is my little story, in a nutshell.

D*ana’s Dirt is pretty much a love-child, born when my passion for radio met with this wonderful tool to bring the visual to the gossip I was spreading on the air – the internet :)

I clearly remember the day I was given my own page and password to 933flz.com.  Soon I was competing with co-workers for hits… my page quickly grew in popularity and a friend suggested I use a blogger program and start Dana’s Dirt.  My own website?  Sweet, let’s do it!!!  D*ana’s Dirt launched in the fall of 2004.

My career in radio started much earlier…  I was hired as an intern at WZOU in Boston at the age of 13.  Let’s just say I landed that gig by following the “persistence pays off” mantra – and my parents had the HUGE phone bill to prove it!  I called that station every night and yapped with DJ’s, interns, whoever would talk to me!!  Shocking as it was, one of the DJs hired me to be his weekend intern… That job lasted about a year and a half until new management came in and said we can not have a 14 year old working here – hello liability – but I was hooked for life!!  I also made a lot of great connections and had the privilege of learning from some of the most talented people in the industry.

It was another 7 years before I got my first shot on the air – at Q97.9 in Portland, ME where I had gone to college.  From there I landed my first full-time job at 98Q in Danbury, CT.  Then another dream come true – I was hired at Mix 98.5 in Boston – on the air in my home town!!  I was part-time on the air and ended up learning the business side of radio working full-time in the commercial traffic office… until an IM popped up from a friend, asking me if I’d consider working for the World Famous 93.3 FLZ in Tampa… ya think???  Two weeks later I was packing my little red Acura and headed south…

From July of 2002-September of 2004 I did middays at FLZ… It was definitely the craziest, most fun, and at times most challenging, chapter in my life so far.  I met a lot of great people, learned a lot about radio, and most importantly gave birth to my amazing daughter Kyla!!  She’s 7 and starting 2nd grade soon!

In July of 2005 I was then hired to be the night DJ and host a women’s talk show on 96.5 TIC in Hartford.  In October of 2005 “The Girly Spot” hit the airwaves from 10pm to midnight and within a few days we had a following of fans.  We gradually transitioned from a music intensive show to all talk with live phones format.  We discussed everything from female orgasm to our own sex lives to more serious topics like eating disorders and breast cancer.  Unfortunately the station decided to cancel the show after a year and a half, but I still hope that some day I will have the chance to do what I call the “hot girl talk” format again…

I was laid off from WTIC in November of 2008 when CBS went the syndication route with the Billy Bush Show.

I decided at that point to move to FL and enjoy the sunshine for a while, work on my website, sell dolls on eBay (another hobby of mine), and spend some time with my daughter.  She had a GREAT year in kindergarten and not working full time allowed me to volunteer at her school, have tons of play dates, and tuck her in every night – something my night job didn’t allow me to do.

CBS Radio hired me back in July of 2010, I couldn’t be happier… I am working on 2 stations - Play 98.7 in Tampa, FL and Now 100.5 in Sacramento!  Check on my show for lots of celebrity gossip, mom talk, pop culture, and random crazy stuff, and of course great music… Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Maroon 5, Katy Perry, Adele, Taylor Swift, Train, you know, the hits!