Leon and Valerie

Leon and Valerie Hunt are the owners of KIVY 92.7 FM and 1290 AM.  They have owned the station for over six years.  They work together to bring the best quality of music to you.  Leon and Valerie are greatly appreciated at KIVY by their employees.  Leon can be reached at KIVY at (936) 544-2171.

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Lonnie Hunt

Lonnie Hunt is Leon’s brother and is currently the County Judge of Houston County.  He has been on air on the morning show for many years and has been County Judge for about two years.  He greatly enjoys doing both and is a lively morning show personality.  Lonnie does the news and hosts the morning programs from 6:30 am until 8:00 am.  Joanne joins Lonnie on the morning show from 8:00 am until 10:00 am.

Joanne Warner

Joanne Warner has been working at KIVY for about six years.  She is a morning show personality and she hosts the “Swap Shop.”  Joanne's other responsibilities include doing remotes, sales, and keeping the office lively.  Joanne can be reached at (936) 544-2171 or e-mail her at joanne@kivy.com.

Kristina Waldrep

Kristina Waldrep is the traffic and accounting manager for the radio station and she also does some sales.  You can even hear her on the the 
"Swap Shop"!  She has been working at KIVY for one year and loves her job!  In the afternoons, she is at the front desk and can be reached anytime from 
8 am to 5pm at (936) 544-2171.  Kristina's e-mail is traffic@kivy.com.

Vince Astramovich

Vince has been working at KIVY since 2000.  His job description includes production programming, the noon news broadcasting, the five o’clock news broadcast, and a little of everything else.  He greatly enjoys working in radio production. If you’d like to reach him, you can call the station at (936) 544-2171 between 10 am and 5 pm on weekdays.

Craig Reed

Craig Reed has worked for KIVY for 12 years and is the host of Classic Country with Craig Reed every Saturday night.  He works at the barber shop next to the station and has done so for forty years.  If you’d like to hear him and the Classic Country show, tune in to 92.7 FM from 7:00 pm until midnight on Saturday nights.

Charlie Bobbitt

Charlie Bobbitt has returned to the air after 30 years!  You can catch him on the Sunday gospel show every Sunday or doing the Farm and Ranch Report.  He enjoys doing these programs.  You can hear Charlie on KIVY 92.7 FM, 1290 AM and KMVL 100.5 FM and 1220 AM on Sunday mornings from 6 am until 11 am for Southern Gospel Sunday. You can hear him on weekday mornings from 6am-6:30am with the Farm and Ranch Report on KIVY 92.7 FM and 1290 AM. To contact Charlie Bobbitt for requests, you can call 936-544-5489 or send him an email at southerngospelsunday@yahoo.com. To contact Charlie about sales, call the business office at 936-544-2171.

Johnny Lawrence

Johnny Lawrence has been doing the “Play by Play” for KIVY radio sports for over 22 years.  Johnny and Jim Dowell can be heard on the radio broadcasting most of the sports games for Crockett.  If you’d like to hear them, tune into 92.7 FM or 1290 AM on game nights.

Jim Dowell

Jim Dowell is the partner of Johnny Lawrence on the “Play by Play” on game nights.  He has been doing the games for Crockett for a little over two years now.  He loves broadcasting the games for KIVY and does a great job.  To hear him, tune into 92.7 FM or 1290 AM on game nights.

Nena Knobloch

Nena has recently started working at KIVY this year and makes sure the games are on the air on Tuesday and Friday nights.  She is a sophomore at Sam Houston State University.  She has also recorded the Crockett football games for KIVY TV and works at the front desk in the mornings during the week.  She loves her job at KIVY and enjoys doing the night games.

Melissa Haeckler

 Melissa has been working at KIVY since August 2007.  She has enjoyed working at KIVY.  She is a senior at Crockett High School, is a cheerleader and takes dance.  During the week, she works the front desk, answering phones, downloading programs, and updating KIVY’s website.  She also works the board for remotes on the weekends. On Sundays, she airs church programs and reads the news at noon.  Tune in to 92.7 FM at noon to hear her. 

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Rusty Shaw

Rusty is the sports broadcaster for KIVY and KMVL radio.  He can be heard at 7:30 am, 12:00 pm, and 5:00 pm with the local sports around Crockett.  He'll also tell you about the games that KIVY will be broadcasting on game nights.  Tune into 92.7 FM to hear his report.

Amanda Mask

Amanda Mask is a sales representative for KIVY radio. She also works remotes on the weekends. To contact her about sales, call the business office at 936-544-2171

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Josh Bobbitt

Josh Bobbitt was one of the hosts of the Friday Night Scoreboard Show during football season.  Josh and Todd English currently do the "Play by Play" for the Kennard basketball games.  Tune into 92.7 FM or 1290 AM on game nights to hear Josh Bobbitt.

Todd English

Todd English was one of the hosts of the Friday Night Scoreboard Show during football season.  Todd and Josh Bobbitt currently do the "Play by Play" for the Kennard basketball games.  Tune into 92.7 FM or 1290 AM on game nights to hear Josh Bobbitt.

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Larry Shipley

Larry has an on-air rapport with his listeners that just can't be beat, and is a true character on the air. In addition to many years in radio, Larry has done syndicated television work including play-by-play sports and a wrestling show for ESPN. Larry loves to get involved in promotional activities and contests and if he could, he might just give away the station license! Larry has a niece beautiful enough to be a model and smart enough to attend MIT, where she is and has a full scholarship. Larry readily admits she doesn't share Larry's gene pool.

Penny Mitchell

Penny's first gig 25+ years ago was in Country radio and she is thrilled to still be working, "The best format today. PERIOD." She loves working the phones and getting listeners involved with the action on the air. Her daily feature, "My Three Songs" has a huge fan base; past attempts to replace it with another contest have been met with howls of protest. She loves interviewing Country artists, and feels very blessed to have interviewed many of the very biggest. Penny was once tapped to chauffeur Billy Dean around for five hours straight and would like it to be acknowledged that she didn't kidnap him.

Tad Svendsen

Tad Svendsen is the Afternoon Host. We'll get his profile and picture up here soon!

Bill single-handedly dishes out a great morning show... it just happens to run in the overnight hours. His show includes the "New Country Record Review" where listeners rate the latest Country music releases, "Overnight Scoreboard" providing the most up-to-date sports scores available and fun features like "Stupid Criminal Tricks". He has loyal fans all over the country who make it through the overnight hours with Bill's help.