Terry Wogan is Retiring From the Eurovision Song Contest

Posted 13 August, 2008 - 21:51 by Serkan Uluçay

The veteran presenter Terry Wogan, who has worked for BBC television, is retiring from the Eurovision Song Contest after 35 successful years. Terry Wogan is well known for his sarcastic comments while presenting Eurovision Song Contests on BBC1.

Sir Michael Terence Wogan, more commonly known as Terry Wogan, has revealed that he has hosted the last Eurovision Song Contest of his career. "It's time for someone else to take on the job" he says.

Wogan's first Eurovision Song Contest commentaring began in 1973. Wogan, the veteran Irish radio and television broadcaster who has mostly worked on the BBC in the United Kingdom, is also well known as a radio commentator and television presenter. His humorous comments and different presenting style during the Eurovision Song Contest made him more and more popular on the BBC channel, then all over the world.

After the United Kingdom's failure with 14 points in this year's Eurovision Song Contest, he became sure he should leave the Eurovision Song Contest. He said " I was considering retiring before Belgrade this year and I am very doubtful about wanting to do Eurovision (Song Contest) again. It's time someone else took over."

In my view:

That's for sure, Eurovision Song Contest without Terry will be very different. I am afraid that the contest will lose some British Terry fans. I used to watch him live during the contest and i can't explain how much i enjoy with him and i am sure many fans will agree with me.His style were different than other channels. Iam sure Terry Wogan will never be forgotten.

Source(s):

The Guardian, EuroVisionary

The opinion expressed in "In my view" are those of the author and are not necessarily the one of EuroVisionary.com.

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Submitted by Charlotte on 14 August, 2008 - 00:35.

Terry Wogan was different yes - and in the 80's it might have been good for the United Kingdom with him as a commentator, but it has been time to change for quite a while. Most of the population in the UK doesn't care about the Contest, the experienced artists doesn't want to participate and the BBC don't want to put any effort into a proper national final. We all want these things to change, but with a commentator as Terry Wogan that was impossible. He doesn't care about the Contest, he treats it as a joke and he teaches the population that it is not in any way seriously, just something you laugh about once a year. If we don't want the Eurovision Song Contest to be seen as a joke we have to start with commentators who doesn't treat it like that.

We all have our favourite Wogan moments though and for me the best memory was how he was forced to appologise to DR in 2001 - and afterwards knew himself that he was persona non grata in Denmark! :-)