The last ever full-length Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Foyle included a "poignant" montage of highlights from the past 13 years on Friday morning.
The flagship news programme has been given the axe by BBC bosses, with the two-hour in-depth programme being replaced with a 30-minute slot.
The final show on Friday morning closed with thanks for listeners from the co-hosts Elaine McGee and David Hunter, a collection of highlights from the Breakfast Show over the past 13 years, before finishing up with Teenage Kicks from Derry band The Undertones.
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Mr Hunter, addressing listeners directly, said: "We just wanted to take a few minutes to thank you, each and every one of you who turn on your radio every morning and trust us to bring you the news that matters to you, and for sharing your stories with us.
"This is the final BBC Radio Foyle Breakfast Show. From Monday, things are going to look and sound a little bit different. There are some final details to be worked out on that but what won't change is our gratitude to you."
He added: "For me, personally, it's been a privilege."
An emotional Elaine McGee said: "It hurts that it ends here."
She continued: "Thank you, thank you, above all thank you for listening to us, trusting us and choosing us, and letting us into your life.
"I hope we have been a friend to you like you have been for us."
She continued: "I do believe the connection local radio creates with its listeners is magic.
"We may be meeting in a different way from here on in, but magic and connection like ours can't be cut and no one can take that away and your voices will always matter here on Radio Foyle."
The radio show host added: "We will say goodbye for now and for the last time from all the team at the BBC Radio Foyle Breakfast Show, good morning."
The highlights montage included coverage of the opening of the Peace Bridge in Derry in 2011, Bloody Sunday commemoration events, the Buncrana pier tragedy in 2016, and Derry's year as UK city of culture in 2013.
Foyle SDLP MP Colum Eastwood, who campaigned against the BBC Radio Foyle cuts, gave his view on the final broadcast on Twitter.
"A very poignant BBC Radio Foyle Breakfast Show this morning," the SDLP leader wrote. "With every recent triumph and tragedy in our city, local journalists are there to share northwest stories with the world.
"They are a credit to the BBC and have been taken for granted for far too long."
BBC NI Director Adam Smyth has said the upcoming changes at the station "reflect the commitment to Foyle as a production centre for local and region-wide output".
National Union of Journalists assistant general secretary Seamus Dooley described the decision to axe the two-hour Breakfast Show as "a great mistake".
He said the NUJ has a ballot for industrial action underway that could "affect coverage of the local elections in Northern Ireland."
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