Economy & Innovation

Innovation Hub Idea Week Broadcasts

WVPE 88.1 Elkhart/South Bend | By Tony Krabill

Published April 15, 2019 at 4:07 PM EDT

Monday, April 8 & 15, 2019 at 9 PM

WVPE presents special Monday night broadcasts of Innovation Hub as a commemoration of Idea Week.

For April 8: Humans, Animals, and Everything In Between - a look at the boundary between humans and animals.

For April 15: Loonshots and Voice Technology - an exploration of why we accept or reject new ideas, and the future of voice technology.

Loonshot (n): a neglected project, widely dismissed, its champion written off as unhinged

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Tony Krabill

Tony became WVPE's program director in 2022, after working as operations manager since 2014. He also produces Michiana Chronicles and works on other special programming and digital projects. He joined the station as All Things Considered host in 1997, hosted Morning Edition in 2000 and 2001, then returned to the ATC host chair from 2007 to 2016. One of his Morning Edition newscasts earned WVPE a Best Radio Newscast Award from the Associated Press in 2002. An Iowa native, Tony got his start in radio as a student at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), Harrisonburg, Va., and managed the radio station there for three years after graduating. He also worked in commercial and Christian radio prior to his time at WVPE. Tony lives in Goshen.

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