The Radio 1 Breakfast Show
Other names | The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw |
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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 |
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1 | Tony Blackburn | 30 September 1967 | 1 June 1973 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
2 | Noel Edmonds | 4 June 1973 | 28 April 1978 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
3 | Dave Lee Travis | 2 May 1978 | December 1980 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
4 | Mike Read | January 1981 | April 1986 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
5 | Mike Smith | May 1986 | May 1988 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
6 | Simon Mayo | May 1988 | September 1993 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
7 | Mark Goodier | October 1993 | December 1993 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
8 | Steve Wright | January 1994 | 21 April 1995 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
9 | Chris Evans | 24 April 1995 | 17 January 1997 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
10 | Mark and Lard | 10 February 1997 | 10 October 1997 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
11 | Kevin Greening and Zoë Ball | 13 October 1997 | 25 September 1998 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
12 | Zoë Ball | 12 October 1998 | March 2000 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
13 | Sara Cox | 31 March 2000 | 19 December 2003 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
14 | Chris Moyles | 5 January 2004 | 14 September 2012 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
15 | Nick Grimshaw | 24 September 2012 | 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.
References
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