The Radio 1 Breakfast Show

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The Radio 1 Breakfast Show
Other names The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw
Genre Music, chat
Running time 210 minutes (6:30 am–10:00 am)
Country United Kingdom
Language(s) English
Home station BBC Radio 1
Host(s) Nick Grimshaw
Producer(s) Victoria Easton, Fiona Hanlon, Chris Sawyer
Exec. producer(s) Andy Worrell
Recording studio Studio 82A, Broadcasting House, London
Air dates since 30 September 1967
Audio format Stereophonic sound
Website Official site
Podcast Best of Nick Grimshaw

The Radio 1 Breakfast Show, currently known as The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw, is the flagship show on BBC Radio 1. Since 24 September 2012 it has been hosted by Nick Grimshaw, who took over from Chris Moyles, the show's longest-serving presenter to date.

History

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 Mike Read, Simon Mayo and Chris Moyles. Moyles is the longest-serving Radio 1 breakfast show presenter, having hosted The Chris Moyles Show for eight-and-a-half years.

Hosts

No Presenter From To Duration
1 Tony Blackburn 30 September 1967 (1967-09-30) 1 June 1973 (1973-06-01) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
2 Noel Edmonds 4 June 1973 (1973-06-04) 28 April 1978 (1978-04-28) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
3 Dave Lee Travis 2 May 1978 (1978-05-02) December 1980 (1980-12) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
4 Mike Read January 1981 (1981-01) April 1986 (1986-04) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
5 Mike Smith May 1986 (1986-05) May 1988 (1988-05) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
6 Simon Mayo May 1988 (1988-05) September 1993 (1993-09) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
7 Mark Goodier October 1993 (1993-10) December 1993 (1993-12) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
8 Steve Wright January 1994 (1994-01) 21 April 1995 (1995-04-21) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
9 Chris Evans 24 April 1995 (1995-04-24) 17 January 1997 (1997-01-17) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
10 Mark and Lard 10 February 1997 (1997-02-10) 10 October 1997 (1997-10-10) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
11 Kevin Greening and Zoë Ball 13 October 1997 (1997-10-13) 25 September 1998 (1998-09-25) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
12 Zoë Ball 12 October 1998 (1998-10-12) March 2000 (2000-03) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
13 Sara Cox 31 March 2000 (2000-03-31) 19 December 2003 (2003-12-19) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
14 Chris Moyles 5 January 2004 (2004-01-05) 14 September 2012 (2012-09-14) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.
15 Nick Grimshaw 24 September 2012 (2012-09-24) present (present) Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist.

Relief

Current incarnation

Nick Grimshaw replaced Moyles as host of the breakfast show on 24 September 2012.[1] Features include Call or Delete – a game carried on from his previous show on Radio 1, where celebrity guests choose to either prank call a contact on their phone or delete their number altogether.[2] Other segments include The Nixtape – which sees Grimshaw select 30 minutes of party-oriented music before a DJ comes in to mix listener requests to close the week, Happy Monday, a half-hour of uplifting songs on Monday mornings, Showquizness, an irreverent daily quiz based around pop culture, Happy Hardcore FM, which sees listeners phone into the show to scream over happy hardcore beats, and the daily Waking Up Song, which features celebrities encouraging listeners to get out of bed to the sound of Pharoahe Monch. Grimshaw's incarnation of the breakfast show has received strong critical reviews through his tenure[3][4] but has polarised public opinion, which is reflected in the show's often fluctuating listening figures - as of February 2015, the show has 5.9 million listeners, with a small increase in listenership of 100,000.[5] The Newsbeat news and sport bulletins are presented by Tina Daheley at 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30 and 9:30; there is also entertainment news from Sinead Garven at approximately 7:45 each morning.

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