20 Facts About Neil Rogers

Neil Rogers was an American talk radio personality.

Until his retirement on June 22,2009, The Neil Rogers Show aired weekdays from 10am-2pm on 560 WQAM.

Neil Rogers died at the age of 68 at the Vitas Hospice at Florida Medical Center in Broward County, Florida.

Neil Rogers was born Nelson Roger Behelfer in Rochester, New York.

Neil Rogers worked as a music disc jockey at a small station, WCGR, in Canandaigua, New York Neil Rogers studied broadcasting at Michigan State University, but left shortly before he would have graduated to pursue his radio career.

In 1968, Neil Rogers was program director for WTPS, which had a Hot 100 format serving Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Neil Rogers subsequently lost his job in West Palm Beach and was headed to Yuma, Arizona when he called his mother from the road and learned that Miami-Ft.

Neil Rogers turned his car around and headed for Miami, debuting on WKAT on March 1,1976.

Neil Rogers worked the 3 PM - 6 PM at WKAT for $225 a week.

Also while at WKAT, Neil Rogers owned a health food store in the San Souci area.

Nine months later, when singer Anita Bryant began a crusade to repeal Dade County's ordinance banning discrimination against homosexuals, Neil Rogers responded by announcing on the air that he was homosexual on December 17,1976.

Neil Rogers referred to the segment of his show with live calls as "Dialing for Neanderthals".

Neil Rogers returned to Miami radio on December 1,1980, on WNWS 790 AM.

ESPN reporter Shannon Spake served briefly as an intern for The Neil Rogers Show in 1999.

Neil Rogers had a devoted audience in Europe and around the world who listened via the Internet.

Neil Rogers has been targeted from time to time by local activists who find him offensive; one, Jack Thompson, a former Miami attorney, unsuccessfully sued Rogers and his employers to remove him from the air.

Neil Rogers had survived all such attacks, and indeed, many of them increased his popularity.

Neil Rogers' contract included the ability for him to choose his producer and no resolution was found by the end of the program even after Neil Rogers called his agent on the air.

Feldman stated that he worked on The Neil Rogers Show without any increase in his salary.

Neil Rogers died on December 24,2010, at the age of 68.