'Legend of the airwaves': Bob Rogers dies after seven decades on air

The broadcaster whose career spanned seven decades died at his Mosman home on Wednesday.

He started at Melbourne's 3XY when he was 15 as a panel operator. He was still doing a radio program on Sydney's 2CH in his nineties.

Rogers was the morning program presenter for 2UE, 2GB and 2CH.

As well as radio, he hosted his late night TV variety show called The Bob Rogers Show on Channel Seven.

After Rogers joined 2SM as a disc jockey, the radio station jumped to the number one spot in the ratings.

Rogers represented the station when he accompanied the Beatles on their 1964 tour through Europe, Asia and Australia, which was the only time the band toured the country.

He was subsequently nicknamed 'the fifth beatle' as a result.

Derryn Hinch described him as a "radio legend" on social media.

"The words legend and icon are thrown around too easily these days but Bob Rogers was both," he wrote.

"As a kid I used to listen to him on my crystal set from across the ditch in New Zealand."

2GB Morning host Ben Fordham agreed saying he was a "legend of the airwaves".

Commentator David Tapp described him as a "true legend" of broadcasting and "one of the nicest people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing".

He is survived by his wife his wife, Jerry, their four daughters and Rogers' son.