Timeline of BBC Radio 1

A timeline of notable events relating to BBC Radio 1, a British national radio station which began in September 1967.

1960s

• 1967
  • 30 September – BBC Radio 1 launches at 7:00 replacing BBC Light Programme as well, with Tony Blackburn's Daily Disc Delivery show. He welcomes listeners to "the exciting new sound of Radio 1" and then plays the station's first track: The Move's "Flowers in the Rain". John Peel, Stuart Henry, Simon Dee, Terry Wogan, Jimmy Young, Dave Cash, Tommy Vance, David Symonds, and Emperor Rosko join.
  • 1 October – The first Peel Session takes place, featuring psychedelic rock band Tomorrow.

• 1968
  • January – Tony Blackburn stops presenting the breakfast show on Saturdays. Rather than replace him, BBC Radio 1 simulcasts the entirety of The Radio 2 Breakfast Show.
  • Kenny Everett and Ed Stewart join.

• 1969
  • April – Johnnie Walker begins his first stint at BBC Radio 1, as he joins the station. He had three stints at the station until 1995.
  • Dave Lee Travis and Noel Edmonds join, and Simon Dee leaves.

1970s

• 1970
  • 8 February – Annie Nightingale makes her debut and becomes the station's first female presenter, as she joins the station.
  • July – Kenny Everett was dismissed after making cheeky remarks about the Transport Minister's wife following a news item.
  • 9 October – Round Table, a weekly programme discussions the week’s new releases, broadcasts for the first time.
  • Bob Harris joins.

• 1971
  • BBC Radio 1 launches its first promotion badges using the slogan "Go Radio 1 Better on 247".
  • BBC Radio 1 airs its first documentary, The Elvis Presley Story, narrated by Wink Martindale.
  • 9 September – Dave Cash leaves.

• 1972
  • April – Terry Wogan leaves the station to join BBC Radio 2.
  • Alan Freeman joins.

• 1973
  • 8 April – Kenny Everett briefly returns before moving to Capital London and BBC Radio 2 in (1981).
  • 1 June – Tony Blackburn presents his final Radio 1 Breakfast, having fronted the show since the station went on air in 1967.
  • 4 June – Noel Edmonds takes over as presenter of Radio 1 Breakfast with Tony moving to the mid-morning slot, taking over from Jimmy Young, who leaves the station to join BBC Radio 2. One of the new features is The Golden Hour, an hour of records that charted in the same year.
  • 27 June – Tommy Vance leaves the station for a while to join Capital London.
  • 23 July – The first Radio 1 Roadshow takes place, broadcast from Newquay, Cornwall and hosted by Alan Freeman.
  • 10 September – Newsbeat bulletins air for the first time. and Richard Skinner joins the station as one of the new programme's presenters.[1]
  • David Symonds leaves the station to join Capital London.

• 1974
  • BBC Radio 1 hosts its first "Fun Day".
  • Stuart Henry leaves, and Paul Gambaccini joins.

• 1975
  • 6 January – Broadcasting hours are reduced due to budget cuts at the BBC. All evening programming stops on BBC Radio 1 and the station simulcasts BBC Radio 2 every evening from 7:00. Consequently, Sounds of the 70s ends and Bob Harris leaves the station for a while. Also the weekday afternoon programme, presented by David Hamilton, is broadcast on both stations and John Peel's show is moved to the drivetime slot.
  • 11 January – Alan Freeman broadcasts a live performance by Pink Floyd which featured a performance of The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety. The performance was recorded at the Empire Pool on 16 November 1974.
  • September – The first edition of The Sunday Request Show is broadcast, hosted by Annie Nightingale. The show runs until 1979 before being reintroduced in 1982, running until May 1994.
  • 25 September – The final edition of Top Gear is broadcast.
  • 27 September – Paul Gambaccini, who joined the station the previous year, presents his first American chart countdown programme.
  • 29 September – Some late weeknight evening programming returns and John Peel's show moves back to late evenings. For this, BBC Radio 1 'borrows' BBC Radio 2's VHF/FM frequencies on weeknights again (having previously done so from October 1971 to December 1974, for shows hosted by Peel, Annie Nightingale and Bob Harris among others). This one hour on weeknights is the only time of the evening that BBC Radio 1 broadcasts its own programmes, and BBC Radio 1 now ends weekday transmissions an hour earlier, at 6:00.
  • Mike Smith joins.

• 1976
  • JAM Creative Productions begins at 20-year relationship with BBC Radio 1 when it produces its first set of jingles for the station.[2] Previously, BBC Radio 1's jingles had been produced by PAMS.
  • 2 May – BBC Radio 1 launches Playground – a "magazine programme of special interest to young listeners." The new programme incorporates Young Ideas in Action which had previously been broadcast as part of Junior Choice.
  • May – Simon Bates joins, and gets his first regular show.
  • September – Emperor Rosko leaves the station to return to America.
  • December – The first Festive Fifty is revealed by John Peel.
  • David Jensen joins, and Johnnie Walker leaves the station for a while for America.

• 1977
  • 4 April – BBC Radio 1 extends its weeknight broadcasting hours. The station's daytime weekday programmes are extended by an hour to 7:00 and the John Peel show is also extended by an hour, to two hours. Consequently, Radio 1 now borrows Radio 2's VHF/FM frequencies for two hours each weeknight – between 10:00 and midnight.
  • 28 November – From today, BBC Radio 1 has its own all-day weekday schedule with the launch of a new afternoon programme presented by Tony Blackburn; David Hamilton's show, simulcast on both stations since January 1975, moves to BBC Radio 2 only. Tony is replaced on mid-mornings by Simon Bates. Consequently, BBC Radio 1 now has its own all-day schedule on weekdays. However the station continues to simulcast BBC Radio 2 each night from 7:00, apart from the weekday late night John Peel's programme.
  • Peter Powell joins.

• 1978
  • Mike Read and Adrian Juste join, and Mike Smith and Alan Freeman both leave for a while to join Capital London.
  • 28 April – Noel Edmonds steps down from Radio 1 Breakfast hosting.
  • 2 May – Dave Lee Travis takes over as presenter of Radio 1 Breakfast[3] and David Jensen takes over the drivetime slot.
  • 12 November – The Sunday teatime chart show is extended from a Top 20 countdown to a Top 40 countdown. Simon Bates is the presenter, having taken over as host from Tom Browne earlier in the year.
  • 17 November – Tommy Vance, one of the station's original presenters, rejoins the station to present a new programme, The Friday Rock Show.[4] Consequently, John Peel is now on air four nights a week instead of five.
  • 23 November – Radio 1 moves from 247m (1214 kHz) to 275 & 285m (1053 & 1089 kHz) medium wave as part of a plan to improve national AM reception, and to conform with the Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975.[5][6]
  • 22 December – Industrial action at the BBC by the ABS union, which started the previous day, extends to radio when the radio unions join their television counterparts by going on strike, forcing the BBC to merge its four national radio networks into one national radio station from 4:00, named the BBC All Network Radio Service. The strike is settled shortly before 10:00 on the same day, with the unions and BBC management reaching an agreement at the government's industrial disputes arbitration service, Acas.[7][8][9][10]

• 1979
• Annie Nightingale's request show leaves the airwaves for a while.
  • 29 January – BBC Radio 1 begins its delayed weeknight mid-evening programme, with Andy Peebles joining the station to host the new programme. It had originally been scheduled to launch on 13 November 1978 but was delayed as a result of trade union disputes.
  • 26 August – Simon Bates steps down from Sunday Top 40 hosting.
  • 2 September – Tony Blackburn replaces Simon Bates as host of the Sunday Top 40.

1980s

• 1980
  • 5 January – Tony Blackburn replaces Ed Stewart as host of Junior Choice, as Ed leaves the station to join BBC Radio 2, and Steve Wright joins the station to present the Saturday evening show.
  • 31 March – BBC Radio 1's broadcast hours are cut back. The station starts broadcasting on weekdays an hour later and Saturday evening programming ends. The station simulcasts BBC Radio 2 during this additional downtime although by the end of the year BBC Radio 1 has stopped broadcasting BBC Radio 2 through the night.
  • 6 December – Andy Peebles interviews John Lennon and Yoko Ono in New York City, two days before Lennon is assassinated.

• 1981
  • 2 January – Dave Lee Travis steps down from Radio 1 Breakfast hosting
  • 5 January – Mike Read succeeds Dave Lee Travis as presenter of Radio 1 Breakfast.
  • September – Steve Wright, who joined the station the previous year, takes over the weekday afternoon slot, thereby launching Steve Wright in the Afternoon. His new show brings the zoo format to the UK.
  • 27 December – Tony Blackburn steps down from the Sunday Top 40 hosting.

• 1982
  • 3 January – Tommy Vance replaces Tony Blackburn as host of the Sunday Top 40 show.
  • 27 February – The final editions of Junior Choice and Playground are broadcast.
  • 6 March –
    • Following the ending of Junior Choice, the weekend breakfast show is renamed as Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show. Children's requests continue to be a mainstay of the show and Maggie Philbin and Keith Chegwin join Tony Blackburn as co-presenters.
  • 4 December – The transmission time lost in March 1980 is regained. Programmes once again begin at 6 am, finally ending all simulcasts between BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2.[11] Mike Smith returns to the station – to present the new weekday early show. Weekend early shows are introduced with Adrian John and Pat Sharp joining the station to host the new programmes. The station also recommences Saturday evening broadcasting with Janice Long and Gary Davies also joining the station to present the new shows. Programming is also extended by two hours on Sunday evenings with Annie Nightingale's request show returning to the airwaves after three years away. Thus BBC Radio 1 is now on air daily from 6 am until midnight.

• 1983
  • 28 February – Adrian John takes over the weekday early show from Mike Smith.
  • March – Noel Edmonds leaves.
  • 1 October – Mark Page joins the station to present the weekend early show.[12] and Pat Sharp leaves.
  • 18 December – Sounds of Jazz is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 for the final time. From the new year the show will be broadcast on BBC Radio 2.

• 1984
  • 1 January – Robbie Vincent joins the station on a permanent basis to present a Sunday evening soul music show.
  • 8 January – Simon Bates returns to the Sunday teatime Top 40 programme, but only for a few months as Richard Skinner will take over as host on 30 September.
  • 26 March – Gary Davies replaces Mike Smith as host of the weekday lunchtime programme, as Mike leaves for a while to present BBC TV's Breakfast Time.[13]
  • David Jensen leaves the station to join Capital London, and is replaced on the mid-evening show by Janice Long.
  • 10 September – Bruno Brookes joins, and replaces Peter Powell as presenter of the teatime show.
  • 23 September – Tony Blackburn, the first voice heard on Radio 1, presents his final show as he leaves the station.[14]
  • 29 September – The weekend breakfast show is revamped with Peter Powell replacing Tony Blackburn as the presenter.[15] The children's requests element of the show is dropped.[16]
  • 30 September – Richard Skinner replaces Simon Bates as the host of the Sunday teatime Top 40 programme.

• 1985
  • 31 March – Ranking Miss P becomes the station's first black female DJ where she begins presenting the station's first reggae programme. This was her first appearance on the station.
  • 6 July – Andy Kershaw joins.[17]
  • 13 July – BBC Radio 1 broadcasts full, live coverage of the Live Aid pop concerts.
  • Johnny Beerling replaces Derek Chinnery as station controller, as Johnny leaves and Derek joins the station.

• 1986
  • February – Paul Gambaccini presents his final American chart programme, as leaves the station for a while to join Capital London (in 1988).
  • 13 April – Bruno Brookes takes over as the host of The Official Chart.
  • 18 April – Mike Read presents his final The Radio 1 Breakfast Show after five years in the hot seat.
  • 3 May – Simon Mayo joins.
  • 5 May – Mike Smith rejoins the station for the last time, after spending the past two years working for BBC TV, to take over Radio 1 Breakfast from Mike Read.[18] The same day also sees BBC Radio 1 begin broadcasting on weekdays 30 minutes earlier, at 5:30 am.
  • Richard Skinner leaves the station for a while to join Capital London, and Mark Page leaves the station.

• 1987
  • 17 January – Johnnie Walker rejoins the station to present a new Saturday afternoon programme The Stereo Sequence. The programme, which runs for 5 1/2 hours, incorporates the previous stand-alone Saturday afternoon shows, including the weekly look at the American charts, which is shortened to an hour.
  • 24 March – There was a station support and a premier airing for the Ferry Aid charity single "Let It Be" - raising cash for victims of the Zeebrugge disaster
  • 4 October – From this day, the new The Official Chart is released on the Sunday afternoon chart show. Previously, the programme had played songs from the chart which had been released the previous Tuesday.
  • 9 October – Jeff Young presents Big Beat – a new weekly Friday evening dance and rap music programme, as Jeff joins the station.
  • 31 October – BBC Radio 1 begins launching its FM frequency, starting in London, initially on 104.8 MHz before moving to the 97–99 frequency range allocated to the station.[5]
  • 8 November – Bruno Brookes reveals the 600th UK No. 1 single on The Official Chart as "China in Your Hand" by T'Pau. Over the following three weeks, and to mark the musical milestone, Radio 1 plays all 600 singles to have reached number one since the UK Singles Chart was launched in 1952.
  • Nicky Campbell, Liz Kershaw and Mark Goodier join and Janice Long leaves.

• 1988
  • January – The station has a "More Music Day" which limited presenter chat to news, weather and travel. Designed as an answer to those who thought that DJs talk too much, it has not been repeated.
  • May – Johnnie Walker ends his second stint at the station as he leaves for a while, and Roger Scott joins the station and takes over as host of The Stereo Sequence.
  • 23 May – Simon Mayo takes over as presenter of Radio 1 Breakfast, replacing Mike Smith who leaves the station.[19] The new programme takes on a zoo format by introducing co-hosts and also features.
  • 1 September –
    • The Radio 1 FM 'switch on' day which sees three new transmitters brought into service covering central Scotland, the north of England and the Midlands. With 65% of the UK now covered by the station's new FM frequency, the pop group Bros fly around the country in a helicopter to encourage listeners to switch over.[5]
    • To coincide with the switch-ons, Top of the Pops is simulcast on the station for the first time giving listeners the chance to hear the programme in stereo.[20]
  • 25 September – Peter Powell leaves and the following weekend Liz Kershaw and Mark Goodier launch an extended weekend breakfast show, which starts at the earlier time of 6 am, dropping the early show as Nicky Campbell moves to weekdays.
  • 29 September –
    • BBC Radio 1 'borrows' BBC Radio 2's FM frequencies on a weeknight for the final time.
    • BBC Radio 1 starts broadcasting on FM in South Wales and the west of England.[21]
  • 1 October –
    • BBC Radio 1 extends broadcasting hours, closing down at 2 am instead of midnight. This results in a new weekday evening schedule with John Peel moving to an earlier evening slot, Nicky Campbell taking over the late show and Richard Skinner rejoins the station after two years with Capital London to host the new midnight to 2 am show.
    • The Stereo Sequence is renamed The Saturday Sequence.
  • 24 November – BBC Radio 1 starts broadcasting on FM in Belfast and Oxfordshire, with a simulcast of Top of the Pops.[22] To mark the event, the next day's breakfast show and Simon Bates programmes are broadcast live from the two areas.[23]
  • Jackie Brambles joins.

• 1989
  • 15 and 16 January – Alan Freeman rejoins the station to revive his Pick of the Pops and The Rock Show radio shows.
  • 1 April – BBC Radio 1 starts broadcasting slightly earlier each morning and is now on air between 5 am and 2 am seven days a week. Tim Smith joins the station to host the new weekend early show, and Bruno Brookes replaces Mark Goodier as host of weekend breakfast with co-host Liz Kershaw.
  • 3 July–13 September – Simon Bates and producer Jonathan Ruffle set off on an 80-day circumnavigation of the world to raise money for Oxfam. Their progress is charted in a broadcast each weekday morning.[24]
  • 29 September – Adrian John leaves the station after presenting the weekday early show for the past six years. He is replaced the following week by Jackie Brambles, (who joined the station the previous year).
  • 8 October – Roger Scott hosts his final show, and leaves the station before his death.
  • 31 October – Bob Harris rejoins the station as Roger Scott's Sunday late show replacement.
  • 19 December – BBC Radio 1 starts transmitting on FM across the whole of south-east England (replacing the temporary London transmitter), in East Anglia,[25] in north Cumbria and south Scotland[26] and in the Cardigan Bay area.
  • 30 December – BBC Radio 1 broadcasts on BBC Radio 2's FM frequencies on Saturday afternoons for the final time.
  • December – At the end of the year, Robbie Vincent leaves.

1990s

• 1990
  • 8 January –
    • A new 30-minute news programme News 90 replaces the teatime edition of Newsbeat.
    • A new jingles package called "Music Radio for the 90s" is launched.
  • 11 February – BBC Radio 1 starts broadcasting on FM in most of south west England.[27]
  • 17 March – Gary King joins the station, to take over the early breakfast show, initially replacing Tim Smith at weekends before moving to the weekday early show to replace Jackie Brambles, who moves to the weekday drivetime show.
  • 25 March – BBC Radio 1 'borrows' BBC Radio 2's FM frequencies for the final time.
  • 12 April – BBC Radio 1 starts broadcasting on FM throughout north east England (having previously had a low-power transmitter for Newcastle upon Tyne for a period) and as this area is a renowned heartland of heavy rock music, Tommy Vance hosts a special Friday Rock Show live from Newcastle to mark the occasion.[28]
  • 24 May – BBC Radio 1 begins FM transmission in central southern England with a Steve Wright show outside broadcast from Goodwood Racecourse.[29] Also during 1990, the transmitters established in 1988 move to higher power.
  • September – Ranking Miss P leaves.
  • 30 September – Mark Goodier replaces Bruno Brookes as host of BBC Radio 1's Top 40 show.
  • 1 October – A shake-up of the station's evening schedules sees the debut of a "new music" show The Evening Session. as John Peel's show moves to weekends.
  • Paul Gambaccini rejoins and Jenny Costello joins.

• 1991
  • Lynn Parsons, Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley join, and Richard Skinner leaves.
  • 6 January – For the first time, BBC Radio 1's Sunday chart show plays all 40 tracks and the show is renamed as The Complete Top 40.[30] This becomes possible due to an extension of the programme's duration – starting half an hour earlier at 4:30 pm.
  • 11 January – Pete Tong joins the station, taking over from Jeff Young. to present a new Friday evening dance show called The Essential Selection.
  • 4 April – Pete Tong presents the first edition of the station's first show dedicated solely to rap music. Called The Rap Selection, the show is broadcast on Thursday evenings and lasts until March 1992.
  • 1 May – BBC Radio 1 begins broadcasting a continuous 24-hour service on a permanent basis, but only on FM – the station's MW frequencies are switched off each night between midnight and 6 am.
  • 5–30 August – Phil Collins, The Pet Shop Boys, Jason Donovan and Whitney Houston are Bates's Mates, who deputised for Simon Bates on BBC Radio 1.[31]
  • 29 August – Top of the Pops simulcasts on BBC Radio 1 for the last time, the programme introduced by Jackie Brambles.[32]
  • 27 September – Mike Read leaves the station to join Capital London.
  • 28 September – Johnnie Walker rejoins for the third and final time, to begin his third stint as the station's Saturday afternoon presenter.[33] He replaces Mike Read and Richard Skinner.
  • Tim Smith, Jenny Costello, and Jeff Young leave and Paul McKenna joins, but later leaves.

• 1992
  • 21 February – Gary Davies presents his final 'bit in the middle.' Jackie Brambles will replace Davies as host of the weekday lunchtime show on 24 February.
  • 24 February – Jackie Brambles presents her first ever weekday lunchtime show.
  • 6 March – Round Table is broadcast for the final time after 22 years on air.
  • 9 March – BBC Radio 1 undergoes a schedule revamp, with several changes at the weekend, including Gary Davies becoming host of the weekend breakfast show. Gary King, Liz Kershaw, and Andy Peebles leave. The changes also see the introduction of a new jingles package, based on the theme Closer to the Music.
  • 15 March –
    • Chris Evans makes his BBC Radio 1 debut as he joins the station, presenting a short-lived Sunday early afternoon show called Too Much Gravy. He will leave for a while in September to become a co-presenter of Channel 4's new breakfast show The Big Breakfast.
    • Bruno Brookes begins his second stint as host of the UK Top 40 programme. The programme is extended once again and now airs from 4 pm until 7 pm.[34] and The Rap Selection broadcasts for the final time.
  • 20 April – The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness, an open-air concert in tribute to the late Freddie Mercury (who died last year) is held at London's Wembley Stadium. The concert is broadcast on BBC Two and BBC Radio 1 in the UK, and televised worldwide.[35][36]
  • 30 August – 100,000 people attend Radio 1's biggest ever Radio 1 Roadshow to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the station. The event, held at Sutton Park in the West Midlands, features live performances from bands including Del Amitri, Aswad, The Farm and Status Quo.[37][38]
  • September – Chris Evans leaves the station for a while to co-present Channel 4's new breakfast show The Big Breakfast
  • 27 December – Pick of the Pops is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 for the final time.

• 1993
  • March – After nearly 15 years of presenting The Friday Rock Show, Tommy Vance leaves to go to new station Virgin 1215, and Claire Sturgess joins the station and takes over as presenter and as a production assistant on Simon Bates's mid-morning show.[39]
  • 18 April – The Official 1 FM Album Chart show is broadcast for the first time. Presented by Lynn Parsons, the 60-minute programme is broadcast on Sunday evenings, straight after the Top 40 singles chart.
  • 8 August – Dave Lee Travis resigns on air, and leaves the station stating that he could not agree with changes that were being made to Radio 1. Travis told his audience that changes were afoot that he could not tolerate "and I really want to put the record straight at this point and I thought you ought to know – changes are being made here which go against my principles and I just cannot agree with them".[40]
  • 16 August – 20 September – Loud'n'proud, a series presented by DJ Paulette, was the UK's first national radio series aimed at a gay audience.
  • 3 and 6 September – Simon Mayo leaves Radio 1 Breakfast after five years in the chair, moving to mid-mornings to replace Simon Bates, and Mark Goodier takes over as presenter until the end of the year.
  • September – Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley both join the station, and they replace Mark Goodier as host and co-hostess of The Evening Session.
  • October – Major changes take place, designed to reposition the station to attract a younger audience, following Matthew Bannister replacing Johnny Beerling as controller, as Matthew joins and Johnny leaves the station. Long-standing DJs, including Simon Bates, Gary Davies, Bob Harris, Paul Gambaccini, and Alan Freeman, leave around this time. They are replaced with several new younger presenters, and specialist music programmes, previously heard late at night, are given weekend afternoon slots.
  • 30 October –
    • As part of the roll-out of the new schedule, as Andy Kershaw and John Peel move from night time to Saturday afternoons and Danny Baker takes over the weekend morning show.
    • The first Essential Mix dance music programme is broadcast.
  • 24 December – Steve Wright in the Afternoon ends its 13-year run on Radio 1.

• 1994
  • 1 January –
    • Kevin Greening joins the station and takes over Weekend Breakfast from Gary Davies.
  • 8 January –
    • Adrian Juste presents his last show on the station and leaves, having presented his Saturday lunchtime programme of music and comedy since 1978.
  • 10 January –
    • Steve Wright becomes Radio 1's latest breakfast show presenter.[41] Other changes on this day see Mark Goodier present a new early afternoon show with Nicky Campbell hosting the drivetime show. and Emma Freud as the host of the lunchtime show (as Emma herself joins the station) to replace Jackie Brambles, who leaves the station for America.
    • The teatime edition of Newsbeat returns after four years away. The bulletin airs in its old slot – 5:30 pm to 5:45 pm.
  • 1 May – Annie Nightingale hosts the request show for the final time, having presented the programme since 1975. Lynn Parsons takes over as the show's presenter the following week, but it is dropped entirely six months later.
  • 8 May –
    • In the early hours of Sunday morning, Annie Nightingale launches her career as a club music DJ, presenting the first edition of The Chill Out Zone.
    • After six months of rocking Sunday afternoons, the rock show moves to mid-evenings, swapping slots with The Steve Edwards Soul Show.
  • June – BBC Radio 1 begins broadcasting announcements on its medium wave frequency voiced by Nicky Campbell telling listeners to retune to FM because it will no longer be broadcasting on medium wave from 1 July.[42]
  • 1 July – BBC Radio 1's last broadcast on mediumwave. Stephen Duffy's "Kiss Me" was the last record played on MW just before 9:00am.[43]
  • 19 September – Danny Rampling joins.[44]
  • BBC Radio 1 starts broadcasting on satellite, using audio carriers on the Astra satellite.
  • 27 November – Clive Warren joins the station, and takes over Weekend Breakfast from Kevin Greening who moves to Weekend Lunchtime.
  • 10 December – Tim Westwood joins the station to present the station's first long-standing rap show, although Pete Tong has hosted The Rap Selection in 1991 and 1992, a continuation of the National Fresh segment in Jeff Young's Friday night show in the late 1980s.[45]

• 1995
  • Radio 1's FM network is completed and the station now has the same coverage on FM as the other BBC national stations.
  • Having been known on air as Radio 1 FM, or even simply as 1FM, since the start of the decade, in order to promote the station's move to FM, the on air name reverts to BBC Radio 1.
  • January – As part of the major changes taking place at BBC Radio 1, older music (typically anything recorded before 1990) is dropped from the daytime playlist, and Emma Freud hosts her final weekday lunchtime show as she leaves the station, she is replaced the following week by Lisa I'Anson who joins the station.
  • 21 April – Steve Wright[46] and Bruno Brookes present their final shows as they leave the station.
  • 23 April – After Bruno Brookes's departure, Mark Goodier begins his second stint as presenter of the Sunday afternoon Top 40 show.
  • 24 April – Chris Evans takes over Radio 1 Breakfast from Steve Wright, following differences with the station's new management over restructuring as Chris rejoins the station, and Dave Pearce joins the station to take over the early breakfast show.
  • 9 May – Wendy Lloyd joins, and hosts her first ever show.
  • July – The station holds its first Ibiza weekend.[47]
  • 27 September – BBC Radio 1 begins to broadcast digitally following the commencement by the BBC of regular Digital Audio Broadcasting, from the Crystal Palace transmitting station.[48]
  • 21 October – Ahead of a schedule revamp, Johnnie Walker leaves the station. The changes include Clive Warren moving from the weekend breakfast show to the weekday early show, replacing Dave Pearce who launches a new weekend mid-morning show, replacing Kevin Greening who takes over weekend breakfasts, which includes a new weekend breakfast Newsbeat presented by Peter Bowes.[49]

• 1996
  • 4 February – Trevor Nelson joins the station to present the UK's first national R&B show Rhythm Nation.
  • June – BBC Radio 1 starts live streaming on the internet.[50]
  • 27 June – Wendy Lloyd hosts her final show, as she leaves the station.
  • September – Danny Baker leaves.
  • Lynn Parsons leaves, and Mary Anne Hobbs joins.
  • Lisa I'Anson moves to weekends.

• 1997
  • January – Chris Evans leaves Radio 1 Breakfast and the station after being dismissed, to work on his Channel 4 TV show TFI Friday.
  • 17 February –
    • Mark and Lard become the breakfast show's new presenters.[51]
    • Jo Whiley begins presenting a weekday lunchtime show.[52]
  • July – Claire Sturgess leaves.
  • 27 July – The first edition of Radio 1's Dance Anthems is broadcast, hosted by Dave Pearce.[53]
  • 28 July – Chris Moyles joins, and becomes the new host of Early Breakfast.[54]
  • 31 August – Regular programming is interrupted on all BBC stations to provide ongoing news coverage of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Radio 1 cancels all programmes, including the Top 40 programme, and replaces them with non-stop music and extended news bulletins every 30 minutes.[55]
  • 13 October – Mark and Lard move to an afternoon slot, and Zoë Ball joins the station as Kevin Greening and Zoe herself replace them as presenters of the breakfast show.
  • October – Nicky Campbell leaves the station to join BBC Radio 5 Live, and Judge Jules joins.

• 1998
  • Fabio & Grooverider join.
  • March – Andy Parfitt replaces Matthew Bannister as station controller, as Matthew leaves and Andy joins the station.
  • April – Emma B, Aled Haydn Jones, and Gilles Peterson join.
  • 25 September – Kevin Greening leaves the weekday breakfast show and weekdays, leaving Zoë Ball as sole presenter, as he moves back to weekends to replace Clive Warren as host of the Sunday weekend breakfast show.
  • 12 October – Chris Moyles is moved from Early Breakfast to present drivetime, between 4 pm and 5:45 pm on weekdays (later to 3 pm – 5:45 pm). He replaces Dave Pearce, who moves to a new evening show. Scott Mills joins the station as the new host of early breakfast.
• 1999
  • Lisa I'Anson was dismissed.
  • 11–12 March – Simon Mayo breaks the record for presenting the longest radio programme, after hosting a 37-hour broadcast in aid of Red Nose Day 1999.
  • 24 April – Jamie Theakston joins.
  • 26 July and 27 August – the Radio 1 Roadshow broadcasts for the final time.[56]
  • 19 August – BBC Radio 1 broadcasts its first split programming when it introduces weekly national new music shows for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. One of the new presenters is Huw Stephens joins the station and Bethan Elfyn also joins.[57]
  • 2 September – Colin Murray joins.
  • 19 September – The first edition of a new Sunday evening advice programme called The Surgery is broadcast and Sara Cox joins.[58]
  • 25 September – Sara Cox co-hosts a new Saturday lunchtime show with Emma B.
  • BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge is established as part of the mid-morning show.

2000s

• 2000
  • 16 January – Kevin Greening leaves the station to join BBC Radio 5 Live. The following week a new weekend breakfast show, The Breakfast Club, hosted by Sarah HB, launches, as Sarah HB herself joins the station.
  • 10 and 13 March – Zoë Ball presents her Radio 1 Breakfast for the final time as she leaves the station.[59] Scott Mills begins a three-week stint as the show's temporary presenter.[60]
  • 3 April – Sara Cox takes over as presenter of Radio 1 Breakfast. and Mark Chapman joins, and starts hosting his first ever Newsbeat sports bulletins.[61]
  • May – Andy Kershaw leaves the station to join BBC Radio 3, He had presented the station's world music programme since 1985.
  • September – Clive Warren leaves.
  • October – Nemone joins.
  • The Dreem Teem join.
  • BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend is broadcast for the first time.

• 2001
  • 16 and 19 February – Jo Whiley begins presenting The Jo Whiley Show, replacing Simon Mayo who leaves the station to join BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 2.
  • 10 May – BBC Radio 1 loses its crown as the UK's most listened to radio station to BBC Radio 2.[62]

• 2002
  • The Evening Session is broadcast for the final time.
  • Jamie Theakston leaves.
  • March – Danny Rampling leaves, and Rob da Bank, and Bobby Friction and Nihal join.
  • 16 August – Sister station BBC Radio 1Xtra launches.
  • 17 November – Mark Goodier presents the Top 40 for the final time on the 50th anniversary of the chart, and leaves the station due to falling audiences and BBC bosses considering him "too old for the job."[63][64][65]

• 2003
  • 9 February – Wes Butters joins, and becomes the new presenter of The Official Chart. Various presenters had hosted the show since Mark Goodier's departure last year.
  • 29 March – Edith Bowman joins, as Colin Murray and Edith herself start their shows together until 2006.
  • 3 May – BBC Radio 1 cancels the first day of its One Big Weekend at Heaton Park, Manchester due to poor weather. However, the second day of the event goes ahead as scheduled.[66]
  • 7 September 2003 – Sarah HB hosts her final show as she leaves the station.
  • 13 and 14 September – BBC Radio 1's second One Big Weekend festival takes place at Cardiff.[67]
  • 19 December – Sara Cox presents her final breakfast show, and Chris Moyles presents his final drivetime show.
  • Zane Lowe joins the station, to present a new weeknight evening show.
  • The Dreem Teem leave.

• 2004
  • 4 January – Vernon Kay joins.
  • 5 January – Chris Moyles takes over breakfast show with a return of the zoo format, and Sara Cox moves to drivetime until her maternity leave.
  • 26 March – Mark and Lard (Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley) present their final show as Radcliffe leaves the station to join BBC Radio 2, and Riley also leaves the station to join BBC Radio 6 Music, after 11 years of broadcasting and one failed eight-month stint on Radio 1 Breakfast.
  • 7 June – Scott Mills takes over as presenter of drivetime show.
  • July – JK and Joel join.
  • 29 July – Annie Mac joins.
  • October – Carrie Davis joins, and starts reading her first ever Newsbeat sports bulletins for The Chris Moyles Show
  • 14 October – John Peel presents his final show on the station before leaving for a working holiday in Peru. He dies eleven days later.

• 2005
  • 30 January – Wes Butters leaves the station as he presents his final The Official Chart show.
  • 5 February – Sara Cox returns from maternity leave to take over Saturday and Sunday 13;00-16;00 weekend lunchtime show.
  • 6 March – JK and Joel take over as presenters of The Official Chart.
  • Emma B leaves.
  • September – Reggie Yates and Fearne Cotton join, and Nemone leaves the station to join BBC Radio 6 Music.
  • 13 October – BBC Radio 1 hosts the first John Peel Day, a year after John presented his final show for the station which was two weeks before his death.

• 2006
  • 8 March – BBC Radio 1 launches its YouTube channel.
  • August – Edith Bowman becomes the sole presenter, and starts her own weekday lunchtime show.
  • 25 September – Colin Murray also becomes the sole presenter, and starts his own weekday late-night show.

• 2007
  • 1 June – Greg James and Chris Smith join.
  • 30 September – JK and Joel leave.
  • 14 October – Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates take over as presenters of The Official Chart.
  • 18 December – BBC Radio 1 is forced to backtrack on a decision to begin playing a censored version of The Pogues' 1987 Christmas hit Fairytale of New York. The song which sees Kirsty MacColl and Shane MacGowan trading insults has the words "faggot" and "slut" edited out to "avoid offence", but after a day of criticism from listeners, the band, and MacColl's mother, the decision is reversed and the original version played in full.[68][69]
  • BBC Introducing is launched, providing a vital platform for thousands of emerging musical talent. A decade later over 460,000 tracks have been uploaded to the BBC Music Introducing website and 170,000 artists are registered.
  • Nick Grimshaw and Kissy Sell Out join.

• 2008
  • MistaJam joins.
  • 1 August – Dave Pearce leaves.[70]

• 2009
  • 18 September – Jo Whiley presents her final weekday mid-morning show and Edith Bowman also hosts her final weekday lunchtime show as they move to weekends.[71]
  • 21 September – Fearne Cotton takes over the mid-morning show and stops presenting The Official Chart, leaving Reggie Yates as the programme's sole presenter, and also Greg James takes over the weekday lunchtime show.
  • 24 December – Mark Chapman leaves the station after hosting his last Newsbeat sports bulletins, to work for BBC Sport.
  • Colin Murray, Steve Lamacq and Bobby Friction leave.

2010s

• 2010
  • 8 January – Matt Edmondson joins.
  • 12 February – Carrie Davis leaves the station after reading her last Newsbeat sports bulletins for The Chris Moyles Show, to work for BBC Sport.
  • 15 February – Tina Daheley joins the station and replaces Carrie Prideaux on Newsbeat sports bulletins for The Chris Moyles Show, and later hosts news, sport and weather bulletins for Radio 1 Breakfast with Nick Grimshaw from 24 September 2012.
  • 31 May – BBC Radio 1 teams up with forces broadcaster BFBS for a ten-hour takeover show from Camp Bastion, Afghanistan.[72]
  • Mary Anne Hobbs leaves.
  • Bethan Elfyn leaves the station after 11 years of broadcasting, to join BBC Radio Wales.

• 2011
  • 9 January – Tom Deacon joins.
  • 16–18 March – Chris Moyles breaks the record for presenting the longest radio programme, after hosting a 52-hour live broadcast in aid of Red Nose Day 2011.[73]
  • 27 March – Jo Whiley leaves the station after 17 years of broadcasting to join BBC Radio 2.[74]
  • 21 July – The BBC confirms that Andy Parfitt will step down as Controller of BBC Radio 1 after 13 years to pursue other opportunities from the end of the month.[75]
  • 31 July – Andy Parfitt leaves.
  • 28 October – Ben Cooper is appointed as Controller of BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra, replacing Andy Parfitt who stepped down in July.[76]

• 2012
  • 26 February – The Top Ten countdown from The Official Chart is made available in vision for the first time through the station's website.[77]
  • 1 April – Tom Deacon leaves the station for a while.
  • 2 April – A shake-up of the schedule sees Scott Mills and Greg James swapping shows, James hosting the drivetime show and Mills the afternoon show.[78] Also major changes take place to the dance music schedule: Skream & Benga, Toddla T, Charlie Sloth and Friction take over from Judge Jules, Gilles Peterson, Kissy Sell Out and Fabio & Grooverider as Judge, Gilles, Kissy, and Fabio & Grooverider leave the station, and also as Skream & Benga, Toddla, Charlie, and Friction join the station. resulting in a shuffle of most late night shows MondaySaturday to incorporate the new line-up.[79]
  • June – The regional new music shows are scrapped after thirteen years as a cost-cutting measure[80] and replaced by BBC Introducing.[81]
  • 20 June – The BBC Trust says that Radio 1's core audience is still too old, despite changes made to output following an amendment to the wording of its service licence in 2009. The station is aimed at the 15–29-year age group, but the average age of their listeners is 30.[82]
  • 23–24 June – 100,000 people attend Radio 1's Hackney Weekend, a two-day music concert at Hackney Marshes, which forms part of the build-up to the 2012 Summer Olympics.[83]
  • 11 July – Chris Moyles announces that he will leave Radio 1 Breakfast and the station on 14 September. It is confirmed that he will be succeeded by Nick Grimshaw on 24 September.[84]
  • 14 September – Chris Moyles hosts his final show as he leaves the station after 15 years of broadcasting.
  • 24 September – Nick Grimshaw takes over Radio 1 Breakfast.
  • 22 December – Vernon Kay leaves.
  • 23 December – Reggie Yates leaves.
• Jameela Jamil joins.
• 2013
  • January – A series of changes take place. Jameela Jamil is announced as the new presenter of The Official Chart, Matt Edmondson is to host a weekend morning show and Tom Deacon rejoins the station to present a Wednesday night show. YouTubers Dan Howell and Phil Lester also join the station.[85]
  • 3 April – Tom Deacon leaves the station after hosting his last Wednesday night show.
  • 12 April – BBC Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper announces that the station's The Official Chart will not air "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead", a song which charted following an internet campaign in the wake of the death of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on 8 April. Instead a portion of the song will air as part of a news item.[86]
  • Trevor Nelson leaves the station to rejoin BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 1Xtra.
  • September – Tim Westwood leaves the station to rejoin Capital London.

• 2014
  • 17 February – Sara Cox hosts her last show for the station and leaves, to rejoin BBC Radio 2.
  • 7–8 March – BBC Radio 1 marks International Women's Day with two nights of an all-female line-up from 7 pm to 7 am, featuring presenters including Annie Nightingale and Adele Roberts. The second night is also aired on BBC Radio 1Xtra.[87]
  • September – A series of changes sees many notable presenters leave the station, including Edith Bowman, Nihal, and Rob da Bank. Huw Stephens gains a new show hosting 10 pm – 1 am Monday–Wednesday with Alice Levine presenting weekends 1 pm – 4 pm. Radio 1's Residency is also expanded with Skream joining the rotational line-up on Thursday nights 10 pm – 1 am.

• 2015
  • 25 January – Clara Amfo joins, and takes over as presenter of The Official Chart.
  • 27 February – Fearne Cotton announces she is to leave the station to start "a new chapter".[88]
  • 5 March – Zane Lowe presents his final show, as he leaves the station.
  • 9 March – Annie Mac replaces Zane Lowe on weekday evenings.
  • 24 March – BBC Radio 1 announces that The Official Chart will move from Sundays to Friday afternoons from mid-July, in response to changes in the day new music is released.[89]
  • 22 May – Fearne Cotton leaves.
  • 25 May – Clara Amfo replaces Fearne Cotton on weekday mid-mornings.
  • June – Schedule changes at BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra see Adele Roberts presenting the Early Breakfast Show, replacing Gemma Cairney. Cairney has become the station's social action presenter, hosting The Surgery and documentaries for both networks, as Aled Haydn Jones leaves the hosting and producing role, to become Head of Programmes.[90]
  • 5 July – The final Sunday broadcast of BBC Radio 1's The Official Chart.[91]
  • 10 July – The first Friday broadcast of BBC Radio 1's The Official Chart.[92] The programme is broadcast on Fridays as part of the drive time show, hosted by Greg James. The programme's airtime is almost halved, to just 1 hour 45 minutes with only the top 10 now being played in full.

• 2016
  • No events.

• 2017
  • 30 September – BBC Radio 1 (and BBC Radio 2) celebrates its 50th birthday. Commemorations include a three-day pop-up station Radio 1 Vintage celebrating the station's presenters, and special on-air programmes on the day itself, including a special breakfast show co-presented by the station's launch DJ Tony Blackburn, which is also broadcast on BBC Radio 2.[93]
  • 6 November – BBC Radio 1 experiences schedule changes. A new weeknight show is launched: The 8th, presented by Charlie Sloth, broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and its sister station BBC Radio 1Xtra. Other changes involved Danny Howard, Katie Thistleton, Huw Stephens and Phil Taggart. Kan D Man, DJ Limelight and Rene LaVice join.[94][95]
  • November – The Surgery is broadcast for the final time. It is replaced by a new show called Radio 1's Life Hacks hosted by Cel Spellman, Katie Thistleton and Radha Modgil.

• 2018
  • 24 February – BBC Radio 1 overhauls its weekend schedule. The changes see Maya Jama and Jordan North joining the network as weekend presenters, fronting the Greatest Hits programme, while current presenter Matt Edmondson moves to present a weekday afternoon show on which he will be joined by a different guest co-presenter each week. Alice Levine moves from afternoons to weekend breakfasts to co-present with Dev.[96]
  • 15 June –
    • Radio 1 starts broadcasting much of its weekend schedule on Fridays meaning that the weekday daytime schedule is now only broadcast from Mondays to Thursdays.[97]
    • Scott Mills replaces Greg James as host of The Official Chart.[98]
  • 9 August – Nick Grimshaw presents his Radio 1 Breakfast for the final time.
  • 10 August – Chris Smith and Tina Daheley both leave the station, after hosting their last Newsbeat bulletins.
  • 20 August – Greg James becomes the 16th person to present Radio 1 Breakfast.[99][100]
  • 3 September – Nick Grimshaw takes over as host of the drivetime show. Jack Saunders hosts a new show named 'Radio 1's Indie Show'.
  • 9 September – Huw Stephens' BBC Introducing show moves to Sunday nights as part of a shake-up of the Sunday schedule.[101]
  • 3 October – Charlie Sloth announces he will leave BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra after ten years of broadcasting.[102]
  • 20 October – Having announced earlier in the month that he is leaving BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra, Charlie Sloth now says this will happen with immediate effect. Previously he has been scheduled to leave in November.[103]
  • 26 October – BBC Radio 1 announces a schedule change that will see Matt Edmondson and Mollie King co-presenting the Radio 1 Weekend Breakfast Show, while Dev and Alice Levine will move to weekend afternoons.[104]
  • November – Charlie Sloth leaves.
  • 15 November – Tiffany Calver succeed Charlie Sloth's Rap Show, as Tiffany herself joins the station.[105]
  • 26 November – former Kiss breakfast presenters Rickie Haywood Williams, Melvin Odoom and Charlie Hedges join the station to succeed Charlie Sloth on the evening show.[106]

• 2019
  • 5 July – Friday's ediiton of Radio 1's Dance Anthem is relaunched as Radio 1's Party Anthems.
  • 10 July – A new show, namely The Official Chart: First Look is introduced and will be launched on 14 July. The show will run on Sunday 6-7pm and will be hosted by Cel Spellman and Katie Thistleton.
  • 14 July – The Official Chart: First Look is officially broadcast for the first time.
  • 15 July – The Official Chart Update is officially broadcast for the final time.
  • 6 September – The new early weekend breakfast show is running from Friday to Sunday, and is presented by Arielle Free. Mollie King gained a new slot namely Best New Pop.[107]

2020s

• 2020
  • 27 February – Controller of BBC Sounds, Jonathan Wall, announces the launch of a new 24-hour 'Radio 1 Dance' stream on the service in the spring.[108]
  • 13 March – BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend, scheduled for the Spring Bank Holiday Weekend, is cancelled due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic.[109]
  • 28 March – Radio 1 implements temporary changes to schedule due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic. The changes see the length of shows across Radio 1 daytime increase, meaning fewer presenters are required in studios throughout the course of the day.[110]
  • 3 May – Maya Jama leaves.[111]
  • 5 August – The station announces a major schedule overhaul which launches from 1 September. The new schedule sees Greg James move to a new time slot (7–10.30am). Clara Amfo’s show moves to 10.30am-1pm, followed by Scott Mills from 1–3.30pm and Nick Grimshaw from 3.30-6pm. Radio 1's Future Sounds with Annie Mac moves forward an hour to a new 6-8pm slot, with the Hottest Record now at 6pm. This is followed by Rickie, Melvin & Charlie (8pm-10pm) and Jack Saunders (10pm-midnight). [112]
  • 9 August – Alice Levine leaves.[113]
  • 1 September – Radio 1 schedule returns to normal after it was modified in March, due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
  • 25 September – Toddla T hosts his last show after 11 years of broadcasting, as he leaves the station.
  • 26 September – MistaJam leaves.
  • 2 October – Jeremiah Asiamah takes over Radio 1's Soundsystem, previously hosted by Toddla T. [114]
  • 3 October – Charlie Hedges takes over Radio 1's Dance Anthems.[115]
  • 9 October – BBC Radio 1 Dance launches on BBC Sounds.[116]
  • 19 November – BBC Radio 1 announces plans to play an edited version of the Christmas song Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl over the festive season, because it feels its audience may be offended by some of the lyrics.[117]

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