Bryan Styble (earlier Brian Stibal) (born October 121954 in St Louis, Missouri) is a Radio Host who works at the KIRO Radio station. His show airs every Sunday from 10 pm to 1 am pacific time.

Biography

Born and raised in suburban St. Louis, Bryan developed his interest in broadcasting during high school while at a summer media program at Northwestern University. After founding one of the Midwest’s first high school FM radio stations, Bryan attended Boston University the following year, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in communications.

Gigs as a stage entertainer followed college, as well as DJ stints at dance clubs during the disco era. Concurrently, Bryan pursued a side-career as an underground rock journalist in Houston, where he then entered the mainstream media as a newspaper reporter and editorialist. Relocating to Southern California in 1980, he landed his first professional radio job as a traffic reporter, maintaining a fall back paralegal career while also reviewing history and science nonfiction for the Los Angeles Times.

By the late ’80s, Bryan was again regularly on stage as a stand-up comic specializing in political material as an emcee at The Laugh Factory, the renowned Sunset Strip comedy venue. He began hosting news talk radio in suburban L.A. in 1989, and soon his "open lines for open minds" call-in style was heard by afternoon commuters in San Francisco Bay Area. By 1993, he was a late-night regular for ABC Radio on WJR in Detroit, where he also began writing and producing TV newscasts for Paramount Television as well as appearing as a columnist in two national magazines.

In 1998, by which time Bryan had appeared on a dozen editions of various TV quiz shows including "Jeopardy!" , he left radio for television production in Chicago, returning to the radio airwaves in Albuquerque in 2000, where he hosted call-in shows until arriving at News radio 710 KIRO in March 2005.

On Air Racist Remarks

During his February 12, 2007 broadcast on KIRO - discussing Black History Month - Bryan Styble claimed that African Americans were better off in slavery than being free in "Stone Age Africa". He went on to compare being black to being "blind" or otherwise "physically impaired". [290]

While discussing "afrocentric names" during this broadcast, Styble also baselessly claimed that Basketball Pro Anfernee Hardaway was so-named because his "uneducated" mother misspelled "Anthony".

References

Michael Gray (2006), The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, p. 645

External links

Bryan Styble's Offical Blog

"KIRO talk host claims being a slave in U.S. better off than being free in Africa"

710 KIRO