The Peter Rosenberg Show with Daryl Francis
…The Peter Rosenberg Show'', later renamedThe Peter Rosenberg Show with Daryl Francis'', 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.
Co-Hosts
Rosenberg was born to a Jewish-American family, grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and attended the University of Maryland. He enjoys watching basketball, hip-hop, yelling at his older brother Nick, his cousin Ben, his father Mike, and long conversations about his girlfriend.
Prior to joining WJFK, Rosenberg had stints as a music DJ on XM, hosted 88.1 FM (College Park , MD) WMUC's now defunct "From Dusk 'til Dawn" (he was known as "PMD"), filled in on WPGC 95.5 FM (Lanham, MD), and had a run on WHFS 99.1 FM (Washington, DC).
Francis was born in Brooklyn, NY and also attended University of Maryland, where he was President of the Black Student Union and graduated with a degree in Finance. He was in the Hip-Hop group, Critically Acclaimed.
Timeline
2005:
In August, The Peter Rosenberg Show began on WJFK when it replaced Ron and Fez during weekday evenings.
2006:
In January, the show moved to the weekday 10AM timeslot when Howard Stern departured to satellite radio.
By June, The Peter Rosenberg Show was replaced by the Opie and Anthony (O&A) show and moved to weekends (Saturday 6-10 PM & Sunday 6-9 PM).
On July 15th, it was announced on rosenbergradio.com that the show would be renamed The Peter Rosenberg Show with Daryl Francis.
On August 23rd, The Peter Rosenberg Show with Daryl Francis was cancelled by WJFK. According to Peter, former Program Director Lisa Broyhill delivered a CD with comments he made about Don Geronimo (of The Don and Mike Show) during the previous weekend show. He admitted that he was expressly told not to discuss Don and took some responsibility for his dismissal. Don later commented that "WJFK fired the wrong person," alluding to Lisa Broyhill's role in escalating the conflict. The program now exclusively broadcasts new shows on rosenbergradio.com.
In November of 2006, Daryl Francis announced that he would no longer be an everyday part of the show, in order to persue some of his own ventures. The show still airs live on the internet. The Attic with Peter Rosenberg can be heard live 1-4PM ET at http://www.rosenbergradio.com/. Although the live show time will be changing to evenings Monday-Thursday with replays at 1-4PM ET.