Diane Roberts

Diane Roberts

Traffic Reporter, Sports Reporter

Diane has been working in broadcasting since she co-hosted a news program about her high school on a small-town radio station in Georgia. She has worked in radio and television ever since!

After graduating from Georgia State University in Atlanta, she worked as a general assignment TV reporter in Des Moines, Iowa, and as a weekend TV news anchor in Columbia, South Carolina and Tampa, Florida. In D.C., she worked as a sports anchor/reporter for FOX5 DC and WUSA9, covering Washington’s professional, college and high school teams for over 20 years.

She’s been an update anchor at SiriusXM Sports and a news update anchor at Voice of America radio and is a freelance field producer for Entertainment Tonight, covering celebrity events from the Kennedy Center Honors to the Mark Twain Awards and more.

As President and CEO of “Diane’s Talking,” she produces videos for companies and non-profits, is a media/public speaking coach and a voiceover artist.

Diane is an Emmy, Murrow, Telly, AP and SPJ award winning journalist. She has worked at WTOP as a sports anchor since 2022 and, in 2023, expanded her presence at WTOP to our news and traffic departments.

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