Luke Burbank's back to host KIRO show

Luke Burbank, who quit his New York City-based National Public Radio talk show last month to return to Seattle and spend more time with his daughter, will resurface on News Talk 710 KIRO. He'll host a 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily show scheduled to debut Jan. 7.

At NPR, Burbank co-hosted "The Bryant Park Project," which was geared toward listeners in their 20s and 30s. Burbank is 31, and KIRO, in a news release, said it was banking on Burbank's "unique perspective" to engage listeners.

The show's name has not yet been determined. Burbank, in an e-mail to The Seattle Times on Friday, vowed that his would not be a boring show. Nor that the sentence "The Enumclaw City Council is up to its old tricks!" or "Who elected these morons?!" would ever be uttered by him. He wants his, he wrote, to be a different sort of radio talk show.

Burbank graduated from Nathan Hale High School and the University of Washington, and first worked at Seattle's KUOW-FM while in college.