British national radio show
Radio show
Radio 1 Breakfast
, also known as
The Radio 1 Breakfast Show
, is a radio show that is broadcast across the UK on
BBC Radio 1
. It is hosted by
Greg James
since 20 August 2018 as the show's 16th presenter.
The show ran six days a week until February 1968 (see
BBC Genome Project
), then five days a week until June 2018, when the Friday show was dropped and incorporated into the station's weekend schedule, hosted by former
Weekend Breakfast
hosts
Matt
&
Mollie
. In January 2021, the show returned to broadcasting five days per week.
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History
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The first breakfast show presenter was
Tony Blackburn
, who spoke the first words on Radio 1 and remained in the slot for nearly six years. Other
DJs
who have hosted the breakfast show for more than five years are former hosts
Nick Grimshaw
,
Mike Read
,
Simon Mayo
, and
Chris Moyles
. Moyles was the longest-serving Radio 1 breakfast show presenter, having hosted Radio 1's
The Chris Moyles Show
for eight years from 2004 to 2012.
Chris Moyles (2004?2012)
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Chris Moyles
holds the record for the longest tenure on the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show at 8 years 253 days.
Nick Grimshaw (2012?2018)
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Nick Grimshaw
replaced Moyles as host of the breakfast show on 24 September 2012.
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Features included
Call or Delete
, a game carried on from his previous show on Radio 1, where celebrity guests chose to either prank call a contact on their phone or delete their number altogether.
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Other segments included
The Nixtape
, which saw Grimshaw select 30 minutes of party-oriented music before a DJ came in to mix listener requests to close the week on Friday mornings,
Happy Monday
, a half-hour of uplifting songs on Monday mornings,
Showquizness
, an irreverent daily quiz based around pop culture,
Happy Hardcore FM
, which saw listeners phone into the show to scream over happy hardcore beats, and the daily
Waking Up Song
, which featured celebrities encouraging listeners to get out of bed to the sound of
Pharoahe Monch
. Grimshaw's incarnation of the breakfast show received strong critical reviews,
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but polarised public opinion, which was reflected in the show's often fluctuating listening figures ? in February 2015, the show had 5.9 million listeners, with a small increase in listenership of 100,000.
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On 26 October 2017, it was reported that the show recorded 4.93 million weekly listeners between July and September ? down from 5.5 million last quarter, a record low.
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The
Newsbeat
news and sport bulletins were presented by
Tina Daheley
at 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30 and 9:30; there was also entertainment news from Sinead Garven at approximately 7:45 each morning.
Greg James (2018?present)
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Greg James
replaced Grimshaw as host of the breakfast show on 20 August 2018. Roisin Hastie read the bulletins for
Newsbeat
every half-hour except at 09:00 until her departure from the show in 2022 for maternity leave, when she was replaced by Calum Leslie. Features include Yesterday's Quiz and the Ten Minute Takeover, alongside Is It Just Us and Unpopular Opinions.
In March 2020, due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
,
Radio 1 Breakfast
was moved to 7am until 11am.
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Adele Roberts
' Early Breakfast Show was extended by thirty minutes until 7am.
Scott Mills
,
Chris Stark
and
Clara Amfo
rotated their shows every week between 11am and 3pm and Nick Grimshaw started his show at the earlier time of 3pm. The measures took place in order to help BBC Radio 1 promote
social distancing
and to limit the number of staff allowed in the studio. The show was then reduced to 3 hours (i.e. 7am until 10am) since 29 June 2020, in which 10am until 11am was allocated for Radio 1 Anthems, also with
Greg James
.
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The changes took place until 31 August 2020.
Starting 1 September 2020, the schedule reverted to its 3 hours 30 minutes length, but running from 7am until 10:30am, instead of 6:30am until 10am as previously.
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In November 2020, Radio 1 announced that James's Breakfast show be broadcast five days a week from the start of January 2021.
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Starting July 2023 the show airs between 7:30-11:00 except for Friday when it’s 7:00-10:30 this will return to 7:00-10:30 Monday-Friday in September 2023.
Stand-ins
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Holiday cover is usually provided by another prominent member of the Radio 1 presenting team ? the job rarely goes to an outsider or to a former presenter, although in 1985,
Noel Edmonds
covered the programme for two weeks when
Mike Read
was on holiday. Additionally, transitions between regular hosts have often been bridged by stand-ins. These have been:
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