21 Facts About Sid Rosenberg

Sidney Ferris Rosenberg was born on April19,1967 and is an American radio personality.

Sid Rosenberg is currently the host of Sid and Friends in the Morning and "Sid Sports Sunday" plus sports reporter on 77 WABC in New York City.

Sid Rosenberg's jokingly self-given middle name "Arthur" is a reference to former baseball player Dave Kingman.

When Hall of Fame sportscaster Bob Murphy gave the lineups for the New York Mets, he would always give Kingman's name as "David Arthur Kingman"; Sid Rosenberg continues this running gag on the Sports Guys by using Arthur as everybody's middle name.

Sid Rosenberg shared the sports broadcasting duties with Warner Wolf before becoming the full-time sports reporter.

Sid Rosenberg engaged in heated half-mock, half-serious disputes with the other members of the Imus cast, leading for example to an actual boxing bout with producer Bernard McGuirk.

Sid Rosenberg was no stranger to controversy on the Imus show, which was simulcast on MSNBC cable television.

Sid Rosenberg was fired from the Imus show after making crude remarks about Australian singer Kylie Minogue's breast cancer diagnosis.

Sid Rosenberg began working at Miami-based WAXY 790-The Ticket in November 2005.

Sid Rosenberg was fired in April 2012 following a DUI arrest.

Sid Rosenberg returned to the airwaves at WMEN 640AM on August13,2012.

Sid Rosenberg was released by WMEN in December 2015 in what he called a cost-cutting move.

Sid Rosenberg returned to WFAN on Saturday, February6,2010 to host a special Super Bowl preview show from Miami.

On Saturday, March27,2010 Sid Rosenberg again returned to WFAN hosting a show in Port St Lucie before the New York Mets faced the Washington Nationals.

Sid Rosenberg completed two weeks of fill-in work with Kimberly Jones, Marc Malusis and Anita Marks on WFAN in July 2010 from 10:00am to 1:00pm for Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts, who themselves were filling in for Mike Francesa from 1:00 to 6:30pm WFAN's Mark Chernoff told Newsday 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, Sid Rosenberg became the weekday morning sports anchor for WFAN's sister station, 1010 WINS.

In 2015, it was reported that Sid Rosenberg would be filling in for Geraldo Rivera 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 Sid Rosenberg was replacing Warner Wolf as the Imus in the Morning sports contributor.

Sid Rosenberg, who is a cousin of former Minnesota senator Norm Coleman, attended the University of Miami and Brooklyn College in 1984 and 1985 but dropped out of both.

Sid Rosenberg is Jewish, and made his first trip to Israel in February 2024, in response to the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel.