John Dietrich was born in California. He moved to Las Vegas at a young age and started working in television at KVVU TV5 in 1980 at age 19. After 20 years with TV5 he left the station in 2000 to pursue other, more fulfilling opportunities as a full-time cameraman on  ZONK! Productions shoots.  John currently does freelance work in Las Vegas in between shoots for ZONK!.