Matt Galloway signed off from “Metro Morning” on CBC Radio for the last time Friday morning, thanking his crew and listeners while reflecting on the past decade in an emotional farewell.

“It has been the joy and the pleasure of my lifetime to be able to talk about this town, to help get people interested in the city, and . . . 10 years is a long time,” the popular morning radio host told listeners during the annual Sounds of the Season fundraiser at the CBC Broadcast Centre.

“I’m looking forward to waking up a little bit later, but I will miss everything about this.”

Galloway is sliding into Anna Maria Tremonti’s former role as host of CBC’s flagship current affairs program “The Current.” He starts his new gig on Jan. 6.

Galloway, whose last in-studio “Metro Morning” show was Thursday, has been a morning fixture for many Torontonians. Fans lit up Twitter on Friday to thank him, bid him farewell and wish him luck.

When the change was announced in October, it was met with well-wishers from all around, with a side of sorrow from longtime listeners.

And his colleagues collectively praised him:

Galloway has been at CBC Radio for nearly 15 years. A former music critic at Now Magazine, he began his broadcasting career at CHRY-FM out of York University and then slotted in as the Friday host of “Metro Morning,” eventually taking it over full-time in 2010.

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