Terry Wogan was a native of Limerick City Ireland. He was the most listened-to radio broadcaster in Europe in 2009. In that year, according to official listening figures from the British Radio Joint Audience Research, 7.93 million people listened to his weekday programme Wake Up to Wogan on BBC Radio 2.
Michael Terence Wogan was born in Limerick in 1938. He grew up in Limerick where he was educated at the Jesuit school, Crescent College. When he was 15 years old his family moved to Dublin. He continued his education at Belvedere College, Dublin, which is also a school run by the Jesuit order. When he completed second level education in 1956 he worked for a time with the Royal Bank of Ireland in Phibsboro in Dublin.
After spending four years working in the bank Wogan answered a newspaper advertisement for a post as newsreader and announcer with Raidió Teilifís Éireann. His application was successful and he began his broadcasting career with Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ (Raidió Teilifís Éireann) in 1960. Two years later he began working as a disk jockey on light entertainment shows and as a presenter of Jackpot, a quiz show on RTE. He did radio commentary on the visit of President John F Kennedy to Ireland in 1963.
When RTE decided to drop the Jackpot quiz programme in 1965 Wogan sought employment with the BBC. He was hired as a disk jockey presenting the Light Programme music show Midday Spin on Septmber 27th 1966. He commuted between Dublin and London, for a time working on various programmes, before taking over the Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2 in April 1972.
During his long career Terry Wogan became one of the best known, highly regarded and most successful broadcasters on both radio and television. He presented shows such as Children in Need and Blankety Blank and was the commentator on the Eurovision Song Contest for the BBC on thirty three occasions between 1971 and 2008. He was the commentator for the Castlebar song Contest in 1974.
Terry Wogan was the recipient of several awards including the Freedom of the City of Limerick, an Honorary D.Litt from the University of Limerick and an Honorary LL.D from Leicester University. As an Irish citizen Wogan was appointed an Honorary KBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005. This was converted to a full knighthood when he obtained dual British-Irish citizenship. He died at the age of 77 on January 31st 2016.
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