He was suspended by the broadcaster on 10 March before it announced his contract would not be renewed.
The company recently announced it is to produce a version of The Voice for Middle Eastern broadcaster MBC and 60 further episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond for the Russian market.
The broadcaster RTÉ said 500,000 viewers watched its coverage of the Queen planting a tree at the presidential residence on Tuesday, and other channels also covered the occasion.
With little choice, he resigned, ending one period of turmoil at a broadcaster that regularly battles to be independent of ministers.
And the budgets this series clearly top anything the show's original broadcaster could match.
The troubled broadcaster, which suffered the dreaded zero audience rating for some of its shows after its launch on 31 March this year, was told by on Ofcom on Tuesday that the proposals were "significant variations" which would "substantially alter" its output.
Speaking on the telephone to News World from Qatar, its chief editor, Ibrahim Hilal, said he believed that its Kabul office had been on the Pentagon's list of targets since the beginning of the conflict, but that the US did not want to bomb it while the broadcaster was the only one based in the city.
But with the current licence fee settlement due to come under review in the next parliament, the broadcaster has come under fire from Conservatives who accuse it of a liberal bias.
Late last week Crozier told a conference in Barcelona that the broadcaster was "cash rich" and would look at investments that needed to be made to drive the turnaround strategy.
The veteran broadcaster has been chosen to front the coverage from St Paul's Cathedral in London on the morning of Wednesday 17 April.
The BBC hopes to revive its reputation as Britain's national broadcaster after a bruising year, with David Dimbleby anchoring the only live and uninterrupted coverage of the service on terrestrial television.
