Steve Somers (Born April 17, 1947) is an American radio host on the New York City sports radio station WFAN (660 AM). Steve usually works during the evening on weekdays. His program can be anywhere from 6:30pm to 2am, depending on whether or not the station airs a sporting event that night. Somers has been with the station since its beginning in 1987, spending his first few years with the station as the overnight host. He spent a few years co-hosting the 10am-1pm slot with WWOR-TV sports anchor Russ Salzberg. The program was titled "The Sweater and the Schmoozer."

Prior to coming to WFAN he had a tryout at 660am/WNBC NEW YORK.

Steve’s path to sports talk radio WFAN began in the Bay Area where he was born. Even before graduating high school, Steve was working at KYA radio in San Francisco delivering on air high school sports reports.

Steve graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969 and began hosting a news talk show on KNEW in San Francisco long before the talk radio format became popular. In fact, Time Magazine ran a story naming Steve the youngest talk show host in the country at that period of time.

Television beckoned and Steve joined CBS affiliate KPIX-TV as a weekend sports anchor in 1970, where he won a San Francisco Press Club Award. Steve then moved on to KOVR-TV in Sacramento as the full time on air sports anchor as well as serving as Sports Director.

Next up for Steve was ABC-TV affiliate WXIA in Atlanta as Sports Director. While in Atlanta, he won a local Emmy for a half hour documentary on Ted Turner’s victory in the 1977 America’s Cup.

Steve headed back west to Los Angeles’ KNBC-TV in 1979. While serving as both a television sports reporter during the week and a sports anchor on the weekend, Steve also ventured back in to radio, hosting his own sports talk show on KMPC.

Steve has become a popular fixture on WFAN and has been the recipient of lots of press coverage and critical acclaim. In the 90’s, Steve was featured as part of a story on Late Night New York on the Television news program 48 Hours. He has also been profiled on MTV News and most recently was named on of New York’s “77 Essential New Yorkers” by Time Out New York.

Somers is known as The Schmoozer because of his early years on WFAN. He used to be on the all-night show in those years, and he used to refer to the fact that the callers and he were "schmoozing" under the covers (since it was so late at night). "Schmooze" is a Yiddish expression that means to talk casually. He has also been called Captain Midnight because of his overnight roots.

Somers has a smooth voice, quick wit, compassionate demeanor, and slick wordplay. A unique aspect of Steve's character is that he very rarely will use an abbreviation of a word or phrase (he will always say every digit in WFAN's phone number, and he always refers to the New York Mets as the Metropolitans, and the New York Knicks as the Knickerbockers for example). Somers is an avid fan of the New York Rangers and jokingly refers to the arch-rivals New York Islanders' home, the Nassau Coliseum, as the Nassau Mausoleum, while also calling the Islanders the "Icelanders." He also talks about how Islanders fans will "drive their tractors to the game". He sarcastically calls the controversial general manager of the New York Rangers, Glen Sather, "Glen the Savior" in reference to the once-heralded coach/GM's inability to produce a winning team. As an unapologetic Mets fan, Steve frustrates many New York Yankee fans with his subtle, and not so subtle, jabs at the Yankees; for example, Somers refers to admitted steroid user Jason Giambi as "The Sultan of Shot. and Alex Rodriguez as "The Lightning Rod" rather than his traditional nickname "A-Rod." Other nicknames for Yankee players include Johnny Angel for Johnny Damon, and Captain cologne, referring to Derek Jeter's cologne; driven.

Referring to Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants, he calls him "Barroid" Bonds. For the Sacramento Kings, he refers to them as the "Kings of Sacratomato." He also refers to the Los Angeles Lakers as the "Hollywood Fakers." He also refers to the New England Patriots' Tom Brady and Bill Belichick as "Shady Brady" and the "Hooded Hoodlum", respectively.

On a show that aired during a Mets rain delay on June 27, 2007, Somers referred to Roger Clemens as "the paper airplane" several times, much to the ire of Yankee fans calling in.

Another gimmick that Somers uses involves quietly engaging a caller (usually a Yankees or Islanders fan) in small talk until he builds up excitement ("something like this-!") and proceeds to play a radio highlight that leaves the caller steaming and the audience laughing. An often-used example is Stephane Matteau's winning goal in the 1994 Eastern Conference Finals.

Somers has several other "common phrases," including leading into WFAN's 20/20 updates by saying very fast "you get a flash, a twenty-twenty update, the whole thing, with ." He crescendos to the name, then the update sound immediately starts.

Somers is not only famous for his sign-on on every show (see below)- "Good evening to you, and how ye be? Steve Somers here, and you there." He then goes into a monologue about recent happenings in the world of sports. His monologue is usually several minutes long and is filled with puns and jokes on many different levels, from obvious to subtle. It may also include audio highlights that he and the producer have selected.

Somers has a fairly large fan base among WFAN listeners, and is one of the more popular hosts on the station.

Somers was formerly a sports director at WXIA, the NBC affiliate in Atlanta. He also worked at similar jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he hails from.

Somers (with one M) is not to be confused with another late-night talk radio host, truck-talk host Steve Sommers (with 2 Ms). A die-hard New York Mets, New York Rangers, and New York Giants fan, Steve currently resides in Manhattan.