Murray Lerner and Styble discuss Dylan on KIRO

In an unprecedented break with my broadcast's long-standing and ironclad no-Dylan policy, the format shall be temporarily abandoned for the Sunday night, December 9, 2007 edition of The Bryan Styble Program. Styble--who happens to have been a semi-professional Dylanologist in the 1970s--will telephonically interview longtime film documentarian Murray Lerner, the producer and director of Festival and several other seminal rock and pop music documentaries.

Lerner will discuss and take calls during the show's first hour, 10-11 pm Pacific Time [Monday 6-7 am UT] regarding his new film The Other Side of the Mirror, which is the Oscar-winning filmmaker's first Dylan-specific project.

Lerner's 83-minute cinema verite opus preserves Dylan's historic performances at the Newport Folk Festival beginning in 1963, and climaxes with his Sunday night, July 25, 1965 appearance, during which the artist infamously "went electric" (and which constituted the first time since high school he had played electric guitar onstage). Many rock historians regard that brief-but-stunning set a turning point in pop music history rivaled in seismic significance only by the initial Ed Sullivan Show appearances of Presley and The Beatles.

Lerner's radioactive interview will of course be followed by two hours of Open Lines for Open Minds, giving KIRO callers a chance to engage Styble on everything from Astronomy to Zoology, with the exception of a certain Zimmerman.

To stream via the Internet, simply log onto www.710KIRO.com and click on the "Listen Live" button. (KIRO's call-in lines work well, generally, from overseas.)

Styble subs for Shiers on Friday, November 23rd

Bryan Styble will fill in on KIRO's Frank Shiers Show on Friday, November 23, 2007, from 9pm-1am.

Styble subs the Saturday night after Thanksgiving

Bryan Styble will substitute for Carl Jeffers on the Saturday night, November 24, 2007 edition of KIRO's On Fire program, which runs 10pm-1am, into Sunday morning. Styble shall also, of course, do his own program later that Sunday 10pm-1am, featuring three hours of Open Lines for Open Minds.

Styble on KIRO throughout the Seahawks season

We're delighted to report that KIRO will air The Bryan Styble Program in its usual timeslot, 10 pm to 1 am Sunday nights into Monday mornings, throughout the Seahawks run toward the Super Bowl this year.

Styble on KIRO

Bryan Styble will be on KIRO this Sunday night, September 2, 2007 for his regular three-hour broadcast 10pm-1 am into Monday morning.

Styble pre-empted on KIRO Sunday 8/12/2007

The Sunday night, August 12, 2007 edition of The Bryan Styble Program is being pre-empted on KIRO for the conclusion of Seahawks post-game coverage, as well as a pre-recorded edition of Bob Brinker's syndicated Money Talk show at 11 pm. We hope you will tune in when Styble returns for his Sunday night 10pm-1am appearance on August 19th.

In the meantime, Go Seahawks!

Michael Medved & Styble on KIRO

Nationally-syndicated radio newstalker, renowned film critic, prolific author and intellectual leading light Michael Medved has graciously agreed to appear during the 10 pm hour of the Sunday, August 5, 2007 edition of The Bryan Styble Program on KIRO.

Medved's broadcast is heard weekday afternoons noon-3pm Pacific Time on nearly 300 stations, and originates at KIRO sister-station KTTH/Seattle. Inasmuch as Medved is available for queries and challenges by Seattle-area newstalk listeners for fifteen hours every week, Styble will not take calls during this hour, opting instead to maximize what may be a once-in-a-career opportunity to probe the magnificent Medved mind.

Following the Medved session, Styble will of course offer two hours of Open Lines for Open Minds, taking caller comments on any subject in—or out—of the news.