[3] Before his retirement in October 2020, Rogers presented the six-hour Saturday evening Reminiscing program on Sydney radio station 2CH.

[citation needed] Moving onto a Hobart station, he worked six days a week as a radio announcer, including presenting racing on Saturdays.

[14] In 1962 Rogers joined 2SM, one of the "Good Guys" DJ team the station recruited, with Mike Walsh and others;[15] 2SM jumped in the ratings to number 1.

[16][17] Rogers returned to 2UE and presented his morning radio show with a new format of provocative commentary, gossip and music.

While compering the 2GB morning program, in June 1977, Rogers was sacked, after he failed to use the seven-second-delay button, during an on-air conversation with John Singleton.

[20][21][22] On 5 December 2007, Rogers was verbally abused with obscenities by long-time professional rival John Laws, in unprovoked circumstances whilst dining at lunch with 3AW personality Derryn Hinch in a Woolloomooloo restaurant.

[23][24][25][26][27] Rogers was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2010 Birthday Honours for "service to the media as a radio broadcaster".