Tiara Vian
Host - AfternoonTiara Vian is the All Things Considered host and a producer for the KJZZ news team. In addition to hosting the afternoon flagship program, she produces and voices station promotional pieces.
Before she moved into full time hosting, Vian booked weekly guests for The Show's Friday NewsCap and produced local commentaries. She edits the Arizona Storytellers Project stories for air and hosts KJZZ's Untold Arizona and Stories You Don't Want to Miss podcasts.
Vian has hands-on experience in audio editing, producing, board operating, call screening, voice work and hosting — including work as a producer and call screener for KQTH News/Talk radio in Tucson.
Tucson is the place Vian called home for a long time, but Flagstaff will always have a special place in her heart after she earned a bachelor's degree in electronic media and film from Northern Arizona University.
Unlike most radio professionals, Vian prefers tea over coffee. And when Vian is not working, she freelances as a voiceover artist and enjoys hiking the many trails that central Arizona has to offer with her husband and spunky rescue dog.
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Listen to the sounds of Sa'Ray Hood distributing fruits and vegetables with Produce on Wheels in Mesa. -
Listen to the sounds of Jean Janu on a bird walk led by Kathe Anderson at the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch in Gilbert. -
Listen to the sounds of Mike and Marc Stein answering Seinfeld Trivia questions at the Rose Room at Valley Bar in Phoenix. If you have suggestions or hear things that make Phoenix, Phoenix, send us a note at [email protected]. -
Every three or four months in Arizona, there's an event for school age girls designed to empower and encourage them that their hair is beautiful. -
A program that serves tens of thousands of women in Maricopa county is taking big budget hits. The Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) supplemental nutrition program has seen its numbers drop over the past several years. There are 15 clinics in the Valley and as KJZZ’s Tiara Vian reports, WIC is closing two of them in Mesa and Avondale. -
Maybe when you’re driving along Camelback Road with a hot cup of coffee in your hands, you silently hope you don’t hit a bump in the road. Well, some Phoenix Street Transportation Department workers are motivated to do their jobs well by that same scenario. -
In Tempe, the Graffiti Abatement program works to keep neighborhoods and streets free of graffiti and unlicensed posters and stickers. Today, we step into a day-on-the-job cleaning up graffiti with Phillip Chandler. -
We’re talking to the people who do the jobs that you sometimes don’t see or don’t think about. There's about 500 vinyl billboards and 60 digital ones around the Valley. Lifting, stretching, fastening—and that’s just what the crew goes through. -
Maybe you need a backyard makeover or your landlord is trying to spruce up the place. The noise begins and in a few weeks go by, and the yard is transformed into a tidy lush oasis. -
Here’s something you may not know: those digital billboard messages like “minutes to tunnel” travel times are determined through the Arizona Department of Transportation’s system of sensors in the pavement of Phoenix-area freeways.
