Cost of the monarchy vs Cost of the BBC

[The Kaiser]

From yesterday's Daily Telegraph:

Terry Wogan: £800,000 - more than the total cost of train travel for the entire Royal Family in 2005.

Chris Moyles: £630,000 - more than the Duke of Edinburgh's payment from the Civil List (£359,000) and the Duke of York's allowance from The Queen (£249,000) combined.

Chris Evans: £540,000 - more than The Queen's allowance to the Princess Royal and the Earl of Wessex combined.

[Bitterandtwisted]

And the minor royals should get more money because...?

As much as I bitch about the licence fee, I do get a lot more entertainment out of the BBC than the Duke of York, the Princess Royal and the Earl of Wessex combined. The Duke of Edinburgh is almost worth his fee in entertainment terms, in a David-Brenty kind of way.

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We're the MTV generation. We feel neither highs nor lows.
Really? What's it like?
Meh.

[Frank]

How much for Doctor Who vs the Royal Family?

I'll most likely put considerations and judgement on something as arbitrary as that.

Frank

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"There is only ever one truth. Things are always black or white, there's no such thing as a shade of grey. If you think that something is a shade of grey it simply means that you don't fully understand the situation. The truth is narrow and the path of the pursuit of truth is similarly narrow."

[flarewearer]

Quoting The Kaiser from 12:38, 22nd Apr 2006
From yesterday's Daily Telegraph:

Terry Wogan: £800,000 - more than the total cost of train travel for the entire Royal Family in 2005.

Wogan deserves every penny. Without him there would be chaos across the land.

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[Steveo]

Damn right, I do enjoy Wogan on BBC Radio 2.

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Set your goals way too high so I can laugh when you fail.

[Steveo]

Infact, BBC Radio 2 is worth all that money, it's just that good.

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Set your goals way too high so I can laugh when you fail.

[flarewearer]

and Radio 4. I would gladly see the budget of radio 1 spilt between 2 and 4, to fund for an increase in genuinely good broadcasting.

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[Fozzy Bear]

does Wogan still do the radio 2 breakfast time slot? that made getting up for work last summer possible for me. on the way to work listening to "Wake up with Wogan" was great.

He still does the Eurovision contest as well from what i know. his awful comments are the only thing that make it almost worth watching.

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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying." - Woody Allen

[Thackary]

Terry Wogan is the reason I wake up angry every day.

(Or maybe it's because my radio tunes into the same station when it turns on as I was listening to when it turns off)

[sweet]

Fire them all!

Each is as pointless a use for money that could be better spent elsewhere as the last.

Ha!

[Rufus]

Radio 2 makes me want to slit my wrists.

[flarewearer]

Quoting Rufus from 14:06, 23rd Apr 2006
Radio 2 makes me want to slit my wrists.

You emo.

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[Rufus]

Guilty as charged.

I wouldn't mind it so much, if each broadcast wasn't peppered with that stupid Children In Need jingle.

[motorhead]

Radio two is pure shite that plays katie melua and joss stone and that other bint. John peel was good though

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Quoting motorhead from 14:30, 23rd Apr 2006
John peel was good though

Quite, but he was on Radio 1 and 4

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