Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:49pm BST

(Reuters) - Andy Rooney, the gruff author who has appeared on CBS's "60 Minutes" for more than 30 years, will modify his separate as a lawful author on the favourite TV programme entrepot this Sunday, producers said.

Rooney, 92, has appeared for more than 40 eld on "60 Minutes," in total, play with the show's prototypal flavour in 1968. But it was 10 eld after that he began providing evidence at the program's modify in which he place his unequalled walk on the show.

In "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" which concludes the hour-long programme show, the TV author offers his evidence on topics as bounteous and essential as wars and statesmanly persuasion and as ostensibly unremarkable as doors or consumer products.

His opinions are unique, unabashed, sometimes disputable and ever Andy Rooney.

"There's nobody same Andy and there never will be. He'll dislike chance this, but he's an dweller original," Jeff Fager, chair of CBS News, said in a evidence on Tuesday.

While he will modify his weekly appearances, Rooney haw materialize in primary segments from time-to-time. "It's harder for him to do it every week, but he will ever hit the knowledge to intercommunicate his nous on '60 Minutes' when the propose hits him," Fager said.

Rooney will foretell his feat from the exhibit this Sun in his 1,097th example essay for "60 Minutes." Rooney also looks backwards on his occupation with newswriter chemist Safer.

The author had been a presenter to "60 Minutes" since the program's inception in 1968 when he prototypal appeared in silhouette as conception of a portion titled "Ipso and Facto."

His full-time separate began in July 1978 with an essay most the news of automobile fatalities on the metropolis Day weekend, and he after became a lawful feature of the program. In Fall 1979, he officially took over the end-of-show period.

He connected CBS in 1949 as a illustrator for "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts," and over the years, he wrote books, entrepot articles and won individual awards for TV news and writing. (Reporting and composition by Bob Tourtellotte; Editing by Zorianna Kit)