Rob Weisberg is an experienced media professional with a focus on radio production and engineering. Since July 2011, Weisberg has served as a Promo and Underwriting Producer at WQXR, part of NY Public Radio/WNYC, specializing in Pro Tools. Additionally, since January 1986, Weisberg has hosted and produced "Transpacific Sound Paradise," a world music show at WFMU, while maintaining a freelance radio producer and engineer role in a home studio since January 1985. Prior experience includes working as a freelance producer and engineer at WNYC Radio from June 2000 to July 2011, where Weisberg contributed as a world music journalist and Pro Tools expert. Weisberg holds a degree from the University of Michigan, attended from 1981 to 1985.
Org chart
Teams
Offices
WFMU
WFMU-FM is a listener-supported, non-commercial radio station broadcasting at 91.1 Mhz FM in Jersey City, NJ, right across the Hudson from lower Manhattan. It is currently the longest running freeform radio station in the United States. The station also broadcasts to the Hudson Valley and Lower Catskills in New York, Western New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania via it's 90.1 signal at WXHD in Mount Hope, NY. The station maintains an extensive online presence at WFMU.ORG which includes live audio streaming in several formats, over 8 years of audio archives, podcasts and a popular blog. Rolling Stone Magazine, The Village Voice, CMJ and the New York Press have all at one time or another called WFMU "the best radio station in the country" and the station has also been the subject of feature stories in The New York Times and on the BBC. In recent years the station has gained a large international following due it's online operations and counts Simpson's creator Matt Groening, film director Jim Jarmusch and Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed, among others, as devoted fans of the station. WFMU's programming ranges from flat-out uncategorizable strangeness to rock and roll, experimental music, 78 RPM Records, jazz, psychedelia, hip-hop, electronica, hand-cranked wax cylinders, punk rock, gospel, exotica, R&B, radio improvisation, cooking instructions, classic radio airchecks, found sound, dopey call-in shows, interviews with obscure radio personalities and notable science-world luminaries, spoken word collages, Andrew Lloyd Webber soundtracks in languages other than English as well as Country and western music.
