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Sidney Ferris Rosenberg (born April19, 1967) is an American
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. He is currently the host of ''Sid and Friends in the Morning'' and "Sid Sports Sunday" plus sports reporter on 77 WABC in
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.


Career

Rosenberg is known for his controversial and sarcastic humor as a host on many radio stations including, WAXY "790 The Ticket" in
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, where he hosted his own morning show. He originally was paired with O.J. McDuffie, formerly a
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with the
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; McDuffie resigned his position with the station in the summer of 2006. Rosenberg's jokingly self-given middle name "Arthur" is a reference to former baseball player Dave Kingman. When
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sportscaster Bob Murphy gave the lineups for the
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, he would always give Kingman's name as "David Arthur Kingman"; Rosenberg continues this
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on the Sports Guys by using Arthur as everybody's middle name.


Early career

His radio career started in
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, where he hosted the syndicated sports radio program ''The Drive'' on Sports Fan Radio Network in the late 1990s, after starting as an Internet broadcast. In 2000, he returned to
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to co-host
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's turbulent morning show, the Sports Guys. A year later, he joined the '' Imus in the Morning'' program. He shared the sports broadcasting duties with Warner Wolf before becoming the full-time sports reporter. He engaged in heated half-mock, half-serious disputes with the other members of the ''Imus'' cast, leading for example to an actual
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bout with producer Bernard McGuirk. Several months after joining the ''Imus'' show, he became the co-host of the midday show on Imus' flagship station, WFAN. Here, his strong knowledge of sports and distinctive, high-pitched Brooklyn accent served him well. He would hold both broadcasting positions until 2005. For several years, he also hosted the radio pre-game shows for
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home games. WFAN executives accepted Rosenberg's resignation September12, 2005, following his failure to show up to host the New York Giants' pre-game show having made an appearance for '' FHM'' in
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the previous day.


Inflammatory television commentary

Rosenberg was no stranger to controversy on the ''Imus'' show, which was also simulcast on
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cable television. Among other things, he said on-air that
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was an "animal," and that she and
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would be better suited for ''
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'' magazine than for ''
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'', that "faggots play tennis" and that the
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were "a bunch of juiced up dykes." Rosenberg was fired from the ''Imus'' show after making crude remarks about Australian singer
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's breast cancer diagnosis. Chris Carlin replaced Rosenberg, although Rosenberg continued to call into the ''Imus'' program. As a substitute sportscaster on April4, 2007, Rosenberg reported on
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's 59-46 loss the previous evening to the
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, in the final game of the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship. This served as a lead-in to Imus and other cast members, who made comments that resulted in the cancelation of the program one week later.


Radio broadcasting 2005–present


Southern Florida

Rosenberg began working at Miami-based WAXY 790-The Ticket in November 2005. Rosenberg and the station parted ways in March 2009. In September 2009, he joined South Florida radio station WQAM. He was fired in April 2012 following a DUI arrest. and was replaced by Dan Sileo. Rosenberg returned to the airwaves at WMEN 640AM on August13, 2012. He was released by WMEN in December 2015 in what he called a cost-cutting move.


New York City

Rosenberg returned to WFAN on Saturday, February6, 2010 to host a special Super Bowl preview show from Miami. On Saturday, March27, 2010 Rosenberg again returned to WFAN hosting a show in Port St. Lucie before the
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faced the
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. He also completed two weeks of fill-in work with Kimberly Jones, Marc Malusis and Anita Marks on WFAN in July 2010 from 10:00a.m. to 1:00p.m. for
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and Evan Roberts, who themselves were filling in for Mike Francesa from 1:00 to 6:30p.m. WFAN's Mark Chernoff told ''
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'' of Long Island's Neil Best that he was very impressed with Sid's return to the FAN, but that there was very little he could do to make the temporary hosting in New York anything more than temporary. In 2011, Rosenberg became the weekday morning sports anchor for WFAN's sister station, 1010 WINS. He left WINS in 2012. In 2012, Craig Carton welcomed Rosenberg back, who CBS had neglected to invite to WFAN's 25th Anniversary celebration. In 2015, it was reported that Rosenberg would be filling in for
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in August on 77 WABC. On January27, 2016, Rosenberg officially returned to New York radio as co-host of ''The Bernie and Sid Show'' of 77 WABC with Bernard McGuirk. On November4, 2016, it was announced that Rosenberg was replacing Warner Wolf as the Imus in the Morning sports contributor. On March8, 2018 Rosenberg and Bernard McGuirk signed contracts to replace the retiring Don Imus of the '' Imus in the Morning'' show. On December2, 2022, following Bernard McGuirk's death, "Bernie and Sid in the Morning" became known as "Sid and Friends in the Morning". On October 27, 2024, Rosenberg spoke at Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden, railing against Hillary Clinton in particular and Democrats in general: “She is some sick bastard, that Hillary Clinton, huh? What a sick son of a bitch. The whole fucking party, a bunch of degenerates, lowlives, Jew-haters and lowlives. Every one of them. Every one of them.”


Personal life

He and his wife Danielle were married in 1992 and have two children. Rosenberg, who is a cousin of former Minnesota senator
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, attended the
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and
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in 1984 and 1985 but dropped out of both. Rosenberg then obtained an
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from Kingsborough Community College in 1990, followed by a B.A. in Business from
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in 1992. Rosenberg is Jewish, and made his first trip to
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in February 2024, in response to the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel.Leewok, Doree

. ''
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''. February 10, 2024.


References


External links


Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosenberg, Sid Living people 1967 births Journalists from Brooklyn American male journalists American sports radio personalities Brooklyn College alumni Jewish American journalists New York (state) Republicans