Jason Rosam
Jason Rosam (born 21 July 1979) in Kingston upon Thames is a British radio presenter currently working for the BBC Local Radio station for London BBC London 94.9. He presents the weekend overnight show on Saturday and Sunday mornings from 2am to 6am and regularly covers for James Max on the weekday overnight show. Jason is also the main reporter for the Breakfast show with Penny Smith and Paul Ross and the Vanessa Feltz show.
Career
Jason started broadcasting at the age of 14 on charity radio station Radio Cracker in Poole in 1993. The following year he went on to present a children's radio programme for Hope FM a community radio station set up by the Bournemouth YMCA. After conducting work experience at local radio station 2CR FM Jason went on to study MusicAL theatre at Arts Educational Schools, London winning the Mackintosh Foundation Bursary awarded by theatre producer Cameron Mackintosh.
Jason performed in theatrical productions for many years before returning to radio in 2003 to set up Soundstage Communications a radio drama development company. In 2004 he directed and starred in a radio production of Peter Pan which was played by hospital radio stations across the UK, Australia and New Zealand on Christmas Day 2004 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of J.M Barrie’s classic story. The production was recorded live in front of an audience at the Garage Theatre in Bloomsbury.
In 2005 Jason joined Gaydar Radio presenting the popular Saturday night show Inferno. He went on to co-present the first live Gaydar Radio breakfast show with Neil Sexton and became the stations first news editor. the station won the Digital Station of the year at the Radio Academy Awards in 2007 and at the Commercial Radio Awards the same year.
After leaving Gaydar Jason went on to work at various radio stations including presenting the Drivetime show on Time 106.8 reading the news on the networked Smooth Radio Tony Blackburn show and on air roles at 96.4 Eagle Radio and 106 Jack FM.
He joined BBC London 94.9 in April 2008 and was the last person to speak on air from the stations studios at Marylebone High Street before moving to the new BBC Broadcasting House.