Mike Peterson has served in the News Department at KMA Broadcasting since 2004. Mike joined KMA as associate news director in 2000 after serving 10-and-a-half years as news director at KSIB in Creston. A Fremont, Nebraska native and 1986 graduate of Cal State Los Angeles, Mike began his professional radio career as announcer and news director at KILR in Estherville, Iowa. During his career, Mike has won several awards in the Iowa Broadcast News Association, Iowa Associated Press and Northwest Broadcast News Association competitions.

Mike's wife Mary is a special education instructor at Shenandoah High School. The Peterson's have two children: daughter Abby is a fifth grader at Shenandoah Middle School, while daughter Anna is a kindergartner at Shenandoah Elementary School.

Born and raised in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota in Hot Springs, Tim graduated from a broadcasting school in Minneapolis in '76.  He has enjoyed being a Shenandoah resident since '81

Tim has 2 cats, a female named "Cleo" and an adopted male named "Buddy", who stays in the garage.

In his spare time, Tim enjoys trying to play golf, has a passion for the card game "Rook" and enjoy watching football.  Go Huskers and Rams! Tim is also a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, where he is a trustee.

Let's not forget....He loves chocolate!!!!

Dean Adkins was born and raised on a farm in Council Bluffs, IA.  Of seven children, Dean graduated from Lewis Central High School where he enjoyed participating in music and sports. Dean received his Communications degree from Iowa State University in 1986.  He currently lives in Shenandoah where he loves spending time with his wife, Kris, and beautiful daughters; Mikayla, Claire and Sophia.

Don Hansen is a native of Shenandoah and some would say he’s a native of May Broadcasting! Originally joining the staff while still in high school in 1971 as an evening announcer, Don has spent most of his adult life at May Broadcasting.

Following graduation and Shenandoah High School, (he and Ed May Jr. were in the same class!) he attended Radio Engineering Institute in Omaha, Nebraska to learn more about the broadcast business. He continued as the nighttime announcer until 1976 when he was promoted to Music Director and Announcer.

Don has held several positions within the company including Promotions Director, Programming Director and his current position as AM Operations Manager where he handles all duties of day-to-day KMA operations.

Don is the father of two sons, Beau and Alex. Don and his wife, Sandy (Sales Manager for May Broadcasting) live in Shenandoah along with their two dogs.

Chuck Morris is back at May Broadcasting for a second time.  Chuck was first here from 1980-1994...and rejoined the staff in July 2003.  Chuck wears several hats at the radio stations, but his primary duties include co-hosting the Chuck and Dean Show, The Chuck and Don show and coordinating the day to day operations of KMA-FM.

Chuck and his wife Jane live in Clarinda with daughter Emily.  They are protected by the family guard-dog....Rissy the long-haired Chihuahua.

It was April. 2007. Kristan's tall dark and handsome husband Scott had accepted a job as pastor of a church in Shenandoah that previous December. The eight-hour commute each weekend from Oklahoma had grown tiresome with their three kids (you can imagine). Yet undaunted by Shenandoah businesses' "No, we're sorry - we have no jobs available", our "young" heroine (whose nickname is Bob) trudged onward with great faith that the perfect job she'd prepared for her whole entire life just had to be waiting for her in this fair city.

Thanks to a visionary-forward-thinking manager (Mark) and his intuitive and spontaneous jazzercise-teaching sales manager (Sandy), Kristan was pulled in off the streets of Shenandoah. (Think Tiny Tim pleading, "Please, sir, may I just have one miniature bread crumb for my little sister who hasn't eaten since gas was at $1.32 a gallon?") In next to no time, Kristan took a test to see if she had a personality and "tried out" with the Chuck and Don yahoos - and she was in.

Although she and Scott are new to the area, they are no strangers to Iowa - Scott is a Treynor grad (Go Cards!) and they lived in Council Bluffs and Underwood from '93 until 2000. In March of that year, when their charming children Ryan, Matt and Haley were ages 6, 4 and 2, Kristan and Scott moved the family to Africa (no, really - they did) where they served as missionaries for five years. (And LOVED it!)

It was that early acting career in her grandmother's melodrama dinner theater in her New Mexico hometown, which prompted Kristan to stay active in speech and drama throughout her school years. After graduation, she moved to Tulsa, OK to attended college. She then attended Bible College and worked for a Christian TV company that produced a show called "Fire By Night" - a Saturday Night Live type format with Christian content. It was there that she fell for that tall, dark and handsome Iowa boy who took her around the world, to Iowa and back, where they're living happily ever after.

Derek Martin has worked with KMA Sports since September of 2008. Derek started his broadcasting career in high school when he worked part-time at KDSN Radio in his hometown of Denison. After graduating and receiving a degree in communications at the University of Iowa; he once again worked at KDSN Radio as Assistant Sports Director and an Account Executive. After spending a year at KDSN he moved on to KWMT in Fort Dodge and worked in both news and sports calling baseball and softball for the Gaels of Fort Dodge, St. Edmond. Six months later Derek came to KMA to get back to his passion of sports broadcasting. In the past, Derek has worked and written for the Huskers Illustrated website as well as Iowa Preps.

When he’s not out broadcasting games Derek enjoys sports, sports, and more sports. Really…it’s the only thing he knows. He ranks his favorite teams in order as the Nebraska Cornhuskers, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Kansas City Royals, and the Dallas Cowboys – a combination of longtime suffering and sweet championship bliss. If sports aren’t on his television then you’ll probably see The Office, WWE Monday Night Raw, or Real World/Road Rules Challenges.