The Peter Rosenberg Show
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The Peter Rosenberg Show was a local talk radio show broadcast in the Washington, DC area on 106.7 FM WJFK. It was hosted by Peter Rosenberg and Daryl Francis.
The Peter Rosenberg Show with Daryl Francis focused on various topics including politics, sports, professional wrestling, music, movies, TV, as well as Peter and Daryl's personal lives. In contrast to the conservative political leanings of two other talk shows in the WJFK line-up, Bill O'Reilly and Jay Severin, the show was much more liberal leaning and self-described as "humble."
The show also welcomed a wide range of guests including Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer of CNN, George Stephanopolous from ABC, Ricky Gervais of "The Office" fame, Michael Wilbon from the Washington Post and ESPN. Tazz, ECW color commentator, was a frequent guest.
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[edit] Early Days
Rosenberg grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland and attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase high school where he participated in Student Government and played on the varsity baseball team. Rosenberg often mocks his lack of playing time on the baseball team and admits that he was more focused on music and djing.
[edit] University of Maryland
Rosenberg did his first ever radio show on July 5th, 1997--two months before his first classes at the University of Maryland. He would continue to do shows at WMUC (88.1 FM College Park) for the next eight years under the show name "From Dusk til Dawn". The show's first time slot was 3-6 am on Friday Night/Saturday Morning, but would eventually work its way to the 6-9pm Friday Evening slot.
[edit] WPGC and WHFS
Towards the end of his time at Maryland, Rosenberg (who started as an intern for BET's Big Tigger) worked his way on the air at the biggest station in Washington, and one of the most successful urban stations in the country, CBS owned WPGC 95.5 FM. While at PGC, Rosenberg went by his dj monicker, "PMD", and rarlely made mention of his race or background (something much different from his college show or later his shows at XM or WJFK).
Late in 2002, Rosenberg started picking up shifts at PGC's sister station, Alt Rocker, WHFS 99.1 FM. Without much background in Rock radio, Rosenberg held his own, again under his dj name "PMD". On many occasions he would do consecutive shifts on DC's biggest Urban and Alternative stations.
[edit] The City Paper Controversy
In early 2003, Rosenberg was released from WHFS and suspended by WPGC (he immediately resigned after the suspension) after comments deemed to be inappropriate by management. In an article about a local R&B group, Rosenberg was quoted as saying "DC Radio Sucks". Though the quote was taken out of context (according to Rosenberg), the damage was done.
[edit] XM Satellite Radio
Just a few weeks after being let go by Infinity, Rosenberg picked up a new gig, doing mornings for XM 67 The City. During his year as morning host for XM's commercial hip hop station, Rosenberg (still under the name "PMD") did memorable interviews with Da Brat, Pharrel Williams, The Black Eyed Peas, Ghostface Killah, Joe Budden, and many others. Early in 2004, XM ended their programming relationship with Radio One, and Rosenberg again was forced to move on. For the next year Rosenberg did a mix show on XM 65 The Rhyme called "Nineseven" which focused on old school hip hop from the late 80s and early 90s.
[edit] WJFK
In July, 2005, Rosenberg did his first on air shift for WJFK on a Saturday night at 11 pm. His original cohosts were Terrell Battle (Two Rs), Bushhead Ed, and Big Skriv. In time the team would become just Rosenberg and Skriv. After a few late shows, Rosenberg was given the opportunity to fill in for talk radio vets Ron & Fez. When the duo moved to XM in September, Rosenberg began filling in on a daily basis for their 7pm show on WJFK. Eventually Big Skriv exited and Daryl Francis was brought on as the permanent cohost for the show. After five months of filling in, Rosenberg took over his own official two hour midday shift on January 3rd, 2006.
[edit] Present
Rosenberg is podcasting off of his own website, www.rosenbergradio.com and contributing video content to various blogs and youtube. He does his show on weekends from the McDonalds in the Adams Morgan section of Washington, DC. He has implied a possible return to FM or satellite radio, but as of yet, it is unclear where he will land. Peter made a song called "Throw Some Cheese," a parody of "Throw Some D's" by Rich Boy. It currently has 275,000+ hits on Youtube.[1]. He also has a parody of a song called This is Why Duke Sucks, a parody of "This is Why I'm Hot" by M.I.M.S. It is currently his most viewed video at 580,000+ views.[2]
