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Terry Wogan - Early radio presenting.
After completing his education he went to work in a bank for five years, before he joined Radio Telefís Éireann as a newsreader/announcer. For two years he conducted interviews and presented documentary features before moving to the Light Entertainment department as a disc jockey and host of TV quiz and variety shows such as Jackpot. Jackpot was the top rated quiz show on RTE in the 1960s, but when the show was dropped by RTE in 1967 Wogan approached the BBC for extra work. ...
In the Queen's Birthday Honours list of 2005, Wogan was made an honorary Knight of the Order of the British Empire. As an Irish citizen he was initially only able to use the post-nominal letters KBE, however he is now entitled to use the title "Sir Terry" since he has since taken dual British and Irish citizenship. He has announced that he does not intend to use his title "on-air". He had previously (1997) been made an honorary Officer of the order (OBE), which is now subsumed in the knighthood.
In 2004 Wogan received an honorary doc ...
