Don Hibschweiler
Don Hibschweiler is 90.1 WFYI’s local host of "Morning Edition". Prior to joining WFYI, he was heard as a reporter and news anchor on WIBC in Indianapolis using the radio name “Don Riley”.
Don began his radio career at age 14 on his hometown radio station, WCVL in Crawfordsville. His career includes eight years as a Top-40 disc jockey in Detroit, Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo, Michigan and several years in radio programming at stations in Lafayette and Indianapolis, Indiana.
Don is a graduate of Ball State University, where he earned a B.S. degree in Radio-TV-Film and was a news anchor for the university’s public TV station, WIPB-TV. He and his wife, Peggy, live in Indianapolis.
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Before it became WFYI, 90.1 FM first signed on the air in Oct. 1954 at Indianapolis' Shortridge High School. WFYI's "Morning Edition" host, Don Hibschweiler, has this timeline of the radio station's history. -
Don Hibschweiler has this story on the 50th Anniversary of The Beatles visit to Indy. -
Tucked away in the basement of the Education Social Work building on the IUPUI campus is the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies. Bradbury is best known for his book "Farenheit 451." -
June 26, 1977 is the date Elvis Presley's last concert, held at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. But, there's another Indy connection to The King of Rock 'n' Roll. -
In the final episode of a three-part series exploring Indy's amusement parks, Don Hibschweiler explores the city's first and longest operating park, Riverside. -
In part two of a three-part series exploring Indy's turn of the century amusement parks, Don Hibschweiler talks with local historian Connie Zeigler about Wonderland Amusement Park near Irvington. -
At the turn of the 20th century, Indianapolis had three amusement parks: Riverside, Wonderland and White City. In this three part series Don Hibschweiler talks with local historian Connie Zeigler about the parks. -
WFYI's "Morning Edition" host, Don Hibschweiler, talks with author Sigur E. Whitaker about her new book, "Tony Hulman: The Man Who Saved The Indianapolis Motor Speedway." -
WFYI's "Morning Edition" host Don Hibschweiler talks with author, and Culver, Indiana native, Dr. John Houghton about Indiana's link to a survivor of the Titanic. -
WFYI's Don Hibschweiler talks with film director Andrew Cohn about "Medora," a documentary that follows the down-but-not-out Medora Hornets varsity basketball team in Southern Indiana.
