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Michael "Mike" Rosen (born December 5, 1944)[1] is an American radio personality and political commentator. He is the host of The Mike Rosen Show on talk radio station 850 KOA in Denver, Colorado,[2] as well as a weekly opinion columnist for The Denver Post[3] and previously a weekly opinion columnist for the Rocky Mountain News.[4] Rosen has described himself as an "advocate for generally right-center, mainstream conservative ideas."[5]
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The Mike Rosen Show
Mike Rosen is a self-described conservative[5] political commentator and longtime host of The Mike Rosen Show, a political talk radio show on 850 KOA, broadcasting out of Denver, Colorado, where he holds the weekday 9 a.m.-12 p.m. time slot.[2]
Rosen has filled in for Rush Limbaugh on The Rush Limbaugh Show on February 24 and 25, 2005.[6]
The Governor of Colorado[7][8] and the Mayor of Denver[citation needed] come on as guests to The Mike Rosen Show on a monthly basis to discuss current issues and to answer listeners' questions. Other prominent guests to have come on The Mike Rosen Show include John McCain[9] and Condoleezza Rice.[10]
Mike Rosen has appeared on the Talkers Magazine "Heavy Hundred" list of the most important U.S. radio talk show hosts. In 2009 Rosen appeared as number 82 on the list[11] and in 2010 as number 86.[12]
Newspaper columns and other commentary
Starting March 6, 2009, Rosen writes a weekly column for The Denver Post.[3] Prior to moving to The Denver Post, Rosen wrote a weekly column for the Rocky Mountain News until that newspaper's final issue in February 2009.[4]
He is also contributing political commentary to other outlets, including RealClearPolitics.[13]
Biography
Rosen was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 5, 1944.[1] He grew up in New York and has lived in Colorado for more than 30 years.[4] He earned an MBA degree from the University of Denver and has worked as a corporate finance executive at Samsonite and Beatrice Foods.[4] A veteran of the U.S. Army, Rosen served as Special Assistant for Financial Management to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy at The Pentagon.[4] He is divorced and has two grown children.[14]
On February 2, 2009 it was reported that Rosen had lost a "seven-figure sum" of his retirement savings from investing with Agile Group, a Boulder, Colorado investment firm that Rosen had run ads for on the air, and that unknown to Rosen at the time was acting as a feeder fund for Bernard Madoff.[15] Rosen devoted the first full hour of his February 3, 2009 radio show to this topic.[16]
References
- ^ a b The Mike Rosen Show, 850 KOA, December 22, 2008 (10 a.m. hour)
- ^ a b The Mike Rosen Show website, 850 KOA (accessed August 24, 2008)
- ^ a b Rosen, Mike: Permanent state of entitlement?, The Denver Post, March 6, 2009
- ^ a b c d e Mike Rosen, Rocky Mountain News (accessed August 24, 2008)
- ^ a b Rosen, Mike: "ROSEN: Watchdogs or lapdogs?", opinion column in the Rocky Mountain News, November 21, 2008
- ^ Transcript from The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Rush Limbaugh Show, February 18, 2005 (accessed August 24, 2008)
- ^ Osher, Christopher N.: ""Anthem" singer draws sharp notes", The Denver Post, July 3, 2008 (accessed August 24, 2008)
- ^ Marcus, Peter: "Ritter weighs in", The Denver Daily News, July 3, 2008 (accessed August 24, 2008)
- ^ John McCain on The Mike Rosen Show, 850 KOA (accessed August 24, 2008)
- ^ Transcript of interview with Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Department of State, September 12, 2007 (released September 13, 2007) (accesses August 24, 2008)
- ^ 2009 Talkers' 250 featuring the Heavy Hundred - The 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts In America, Talkers Magazine (accessed April 15, 2010)
- ^ 2010 Talkers' 250 featuring the Heavy Hundred - The 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts In America, Talkers Magazine (accessed April 15, 2010)
- ^ Rosen, Mike: "Another Nutty Professor", RealClearPolitics, November 25, 2005 (accessed August 24, 2008)
- ^ Husted, Bill: Mike Rosen lights up on the Rocky, the Rockies, The Denver Post, March 5, 2009 (accessed March 10, 2009)
- ^ Paton, James: Rosen 'upset' over loss, Rocky Mountain News, February 2, 2009 (accessed February 4, 2009)
- ^ The Mike Rosen Show, 850 KOA, February 3, 2009 (9 a.m. hour)
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Categories:- American political pundits
- American political writers
- American talk radio hosts
- Radio personalities from Denver, Colorado
- People from Colorado
- People from New York
- Politics of Colorado
- 1944 births
- Living people
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