From the late 1970s until the early 1990s Rockburn served as news director at Ottawa radio station CHEZ-FM.
He also hosted a two-hour program on arts and current affairs called Medium Rare, which was widely syndicated across Canada.
Contemporaneously, as of 1996, on Ottawa's CBC Radio One station CBO-FM, Rockburn hosted All in a Day.
[1] Rockburn's tenure on the show continued until 2001,[2] during which the program was consistently ranked number one in its market.
[3] In 2015, Rockburn published the book We Are as the Times Are, a history of Le Hibou Coffee House.