Our Team

Joe Vyzourek

Meet our General Manager/On Air personality, Joe Vyzourek. Joe Grew up in rural Rawlins County and learned the values or hard work growing up on the family farm. He also started a successful DJ business at the young age of 11. Joe knew at a very young age that he wanted to be on the radio. After graduation from Atwood High School he went on to college at Colby Community College, where he studied Radio Broadcasting. Joe learned every aspect of radio broadcasting from sales, production, and programming. After completing his degree he was offered several radio jobs from throughout the United States but decided to stay close to home, taking a job at KXXX in Colby. While in Colby he held the positions of program director and operations manager. Joe was then offered a teaching position at Colby Community College radio program from 2008-2013. Over his 17 years in radio in Colby Joe won The Kansas Association of Broadcasters DJ Personality of The Year 6 times. In 2013 Joe noticed a license available for a radio station in Atwood Kansas, so Joe bid on it and won. So began a whole new journey. Joe and his family moved to Atwood in June of 2015 to begin construction of the new radio station. Joe officially signed it on in March of 2016. Currently Joe is on the air from 6am-10am, then again from 6pm-10pm.

Justin "Chewie" Meitl

Chewie's love for music was heavily influenced by his parents appreciation and creative interest in all things musical. Raised in Colby, KS, he graduated from Colby Community College with a degree in Radio and Television Broadcasting. After college, he moved to Indiana where he worked construction and UPS by day, and by night was the DJ at one of the nation's largest County & Western nightclubs, The 8 Seconds Saloon. He enjoyed spinning tunes to keep the dancefloor full and rubbing elbows with current and upcoming country music artists on concert nights. After a successful career as a nightclub DJ in Indiana, he decided to move back home to Kansas where he continued to work for UPS and also started a successful mobile DJ business which innovatively specialized in playing videos with the music. 

After 20 years with UPS, Meitl decided to change careers and join his wife in the real estate business to utilize his creativity and construction knowledge. No longer a mobile or nightclub DJ, he missed spinning tunes on air, so a quick conversation with Joe Vyzourek had him back behind the mic! While he enjoys music of all genres, he's bringing you The All 80's Lunch Hour weekdays from noon to 1:00!

Surrounded by a multitude of hobbies, he enjoys playing disc golf, felling trees, building vintage hot rods and restoring classics, and fabricating the wild ideas he comes up with. A man of many talents and interests, you never know what Chewie will be involved in next!

Chelsea Schmitt

Chelsea "K" started her radio career at Colby Community College where she was a student of our very own Joe Vyzourek. Joe says she is the type of person that can lighten the mood of any room. She has worked in radio for over a decade doing it all! She joined the KYVZ family in November of 2015 as sales executive for Colby and Goodland, KS. You can also catch Chelsea from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. weekdays with Friday's Double Feature just after 5:00!

Brett Meissinger

This young man comes to us from Goodland, KS. Brett Messinger began his radio career in high school at the Goodland radio stations. After graduating high school Brett went to Colby Community College for radio where Joe Vyzourek was the broadcast instructor. After graduation Brett went on to work as a sales associate at Burlington,Co radio stations. Then he began going all over the United States announcing truck and tractor pulls. Brett joined KYVZ as a sports announcer/sales associate in February of 2017.