Ha. Just doing this uni essay, and have access to one of these online "newspaper archive" things where you can search for articles to quote..
Anyway, I typed in Chris Moyles and it came up with 679 articles in the past year. Jesus! (I'm sure plenty of these are radio listings but still). Quite funny reading through all the Joe Mott stuff for the first time..
Here's the Wogan article from today if anyones interested:
The Daily Mirror wrote:DOSH JOCKEYS;
EXCLUSIVE BBC PAYDIO TWO RADIO 2 PRESENTERS ON POUNDS 3MILLION A YEAR
BY NICOLA METHVEN TV EDITOR
RADIO 2 DJs are coining more than 3million pounds a year with Terry Wogan on a top wage of £800,000.
It means Sir Terry, 67, pulls in 10p for each of his eight million daily listeners - a rate of £25.64 per minute while on air.
But that is half Jonathan Ross's pay-per-minute of £56.62.
For while Sir Tel hosts five two-hour shows a week Jonathan, 45 - who earns £530,000 - fronts only one three-hour show on Saturdays. It has 3.4 million listeners.
The stars' giant salaries will jolt Radio 2's afternoon presenters who still get big money, but at a lower rate.
Chris Evans, 40, is being paid £540,000 to take over Johnny Walker's Drivetime from today. Hosting the two-hour, Monday- Friday show earns him £9 a minute.
Steve Wright, 51, earns £440,000 for five three-hour shows a week with an audience of 6.5 million. Steve added 270,000 listeners in the latest official figures. But his pay works out at "only" £8.30 a minute. Weeknight entertainer Mark Radcliffe earns £197,000 for his mix of poetry, interviews and live music from 10.30pm. Ken Bruce coins £194,000 for his daily morning programme.
Janice Long makes nearly £137,000 for keeping night owls listening from midnight to 3am five days a week.
Ross's fellow chat show host Michael Parkinson, 71, earns a relatively meagre £115,000 for his once-weekly Sunday Supplement on Radio 2.
Bob Harris presents three different shows a week covering country, new music and classic hits - but nets only £96,000.
Their Radio 2 salaries are on top of any other work they do for the BBC.
A Beeb insider said: "The range in the amounts paid to the DJs is astonishing. Obviously, Wogan should get the most. He's on five days a week and gets the biggest audience so it stands to reason.
"When you consider he gets 10p per listener it seems very good value for money. But Jonathan Ross does very well indeed considering he's only on for three hours a week compared to Wogan's 10. The pay scales don't seem particularly fair."
Last week it emerged that Radio 1 host Chris Moyles is on a massive £630,000 a year, £13.50 a minute. His five days a week three-hour show attracts a daily audience of 6.7 million.
Moyles's pay dwarfs that of other big names at the station.
Last night a BBC spokeswoman said: "Salaries and contracts are confidential. We never discuss them."