Personal Life

Diana was born on September 24, 1965, and raised in Thompson, Manitoba, Canada. She is the daughter of Brian Swain who was a co-anchor with her in a newscast. Diana is of white ethnicity and holds an American nationality. Diana’s mom and dad were separated as their married life was not successful. Her parents got a divorce while she was little and Diana moved, along with her mom and her little sister, to Chilliwack, British Columbia. Diana completed high school in 1983 at the age of eighteen. In 1984, Diana represented Chilliwack in the Miss Canada Pageant. Diana graduated from the British Columbia Institute of Technology with a Diploma of Technology in Media and Broadcast Communication

 While living in Chilliwack, Diana worked on a weekly magazine for ten months.  She also served as a reporter at the CHWK radio station prior to moving on to a radio channel at Kamloops in British Columbia. In 1986, Diana made her debut as a newsreader appearing for CKPG TV, a television station operating out of Prince George, British Columbia.

Diana married Ron Kupers around thirty years ago. They are still together and happily married. Ron is a freelance producer and writer from Western Canada. They lived together for some years in Winnipeg and later moved near to Toronto. They have a son and a daughter. Their son Mason, who is the eldest, was born in 1995 and their youngest child, a daughter, Lara, was born in 1998.

In the year 2006, she was nominated for the Distinguished Alumni Award for her wonderful contributions to the trade industry. She is a wonderful writer, anchor and a reporter who has been in the media successfully for these many years.  

Career

Diana Swain’s career has spanned nearly three decades of reporting from Canada and around the world and during this period, she has reported many important events including the flood in Manitoba in the year 1997, the Summer Olympics in Beijing and the devastating 9-11 attacks. She has also done some compelling interviews.

Diana made her venturous entry to Winnipeg television when she worked as the co-host in the evening newscast on CKND station during the year 1988. The most exciting thing was that she shared the screen as a co-anchor with her father, Brian Swain. During the year 1990, Diana teamed-up with the CBC’s Manitoba Station, Winnipeg CBWT. She worked as a reporter there and appeared on the local news show “24 Hours”. Diana received national recognition for her wonderful presentations about the Manitoba Flood during the year 1997. She covered all-inclusive news coverage from Manitoba and Saskatchewan prior to serving as an anchor for 24 Hours.