With the legendary broadcaster finishing on 2fm tomorrow, he tells Marjorie Brennan about his career highlights and that famous ‘Just A Minute’ myth.

When I was a teenager, in the late 1970s, before Radio 2 was set up, Larry Gogan started presenting a pop music programme on RTÉ Radio 1, on FM only, or VHF, as it was called on some radios. This offered excellent sound quality in stereo, which was far superior to medium wave broadcasts and was relatively new at the time.

RTÉ have announced that 2FM stalwart, Larry Gogan, will be leaving the station after 40 years.

Stop everything, Larry Gogan has played the first Christmas song on RTÉ 2FM which means it is now officially Christmas.

Christmas doesn't really start until radio royalty Larry Gogan plays the first festive song over the airwaves.

Gogan has been playing the first Christmas song on the radio station since 1980.

Pádraig Pearse’s pioneering morse code announcement, Twink in lingerie on the Late Late and Miley getting it on with Fidelma in Glenroe feature in Dave Kenny’s magic moments of Irish broadcasting.

Less Larry — that is the upshot of yesterday’s announcement by 2FM that evergreen radio broadcaster Larry Gogan will be moving from the weekday schedules to the weekend.