from 1973 until 1998, byrne presented "the gay byrne hour"—later "the gay byrne show" when it expanded to two hours—on rté radio 1 each weekday morning. since retiring from his long-running radio and television shows, byrne has presented several other programmes, including "who wants to be a millionaire?", "the meaning of life" and "for one night only" on rté one and "sunday serenade"/"sunday with gay byrne" on rté lyric fm.