Jameela Jamil was announced as the new presenter of The Official Chart. Matt Edmondson will host a weekend morning show and Tom Deacon will return to present a Wednesday night show. The changes took effect in January Former breakfast presenter Sara Cox hosted her last show on Radio 1 in February before moving to Radio 2.
In March , Gemma Cairney left the weekend breakfast show to host the weekday early breakfast slot, swapping shows with Dev. In September , Radio 1 operated a series of changes to their output which saw many notable presenters leave the station - including Edith Bowman, Nihal and Rob da Bank.
Huw Stephens gained a new show hosting 10pm-1am Mon-Wed with Alice Levine presenting weekends 1pm-4pm. Radio 1's Residency also expanded with Skream joining the rotational line-up on Thursday nights 10pm-1am. Studios From inception for over 20 years, Radio 1 broadcast from an adjacent pair of continuity suites originally Con A and Con B in the main control room of Broadcasting House.
These cons were configured to allow DJs to operate the equipment themselves and play their own records and jingle cartridges called self-op. This was a departure from traditional BBC practice, where a studio manager would play in discs from the studio control cubicle. Due to needle time restrictions, much of the music was played from tapes of BBC session recordings.
The DJs were assisted by one or more technical operators TOs who would set up tapes and control sound levels during broadcasts. The station moved to Yalding House in , and Egton House was demolished in to make way for extension to Broadcasting House.
This extension would eventually be renamed the Egton Wing, and then the Peel Wing. They used to broadcast from two main studios in the basement; Y2 and Y3 there is also a smaller studio, YP1, used mainly for production.
These two main studios Y2 and Y3 are separated by the "Live Lounge", although it is mainly used as an office; there are rarely live sets recorded from it, as Maida Vale Studios is used instead for larger set-ups. The studios are linked by webcams and windows through the "Live Lounge", allowing DJs to see each other when changing between shows.
Y2 is the studio from where The Chris Moyles Show was broadcast and is also the studio rigged with static cameras for when the station broadcasts on the "Live Cam". The station moved there in from Egton House.
In December Radio 1 moved from Yalding House to new studios on the 8th floor of the new BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, just a few metres away from the "Peel Wing", formerly the "Egton Wing", which occupies the land on which Egton House previously stood: it was renamed the "Peel Wing" in in honour of the long-serving BBC Radio 1 presenter, John Peel, who broadcast on the station from its launch in up until his death in Programmes have also regularly been broadcast from other regions, notably The Mark and Lard Show, broadcast every weekday from New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester for over a decade October —March — the longest regular broadcast on the network from outside the capital.
Radio 1 originally broadcast on kHz medium wave or metres. This meant when Radio 1 was launched, there was no FM frequency range allocated for the station, the official reason being that there was no space even though no commercial stations had yet launched on FM. Because of this, from launch until the end of the s Radio 1 was allowed to take over Radio 2's FM transmitters for a few hours per week — Saturday afternoons, Sunday teatime and evening — most notably for the Top 40 Singles Chart on Sunday afternoons — pm to midnight on weeknights including Sounds of the Seventies until , and thereafter the John Peel show Mon - Thurs and the Friday Rock Show.
As well as most Bank Holiday afternoons when Radio 2 was broadcasting a bank holiday edition of Sport on 2. To co-incide Radio 1's 20th birthday, the first full-time FM broadcast went live in the London area on the 31 October , but this was at low power on In the FM frequencies became national when the existing police communication allocation changed, freeing up what is known today as FM, which the BBC acquired.
The engineering programme was initially completed in Radio 1 made great efforts to promote its new FM service, renaming itself on-air initially to 'Radio 1 FM' and also later on as '1FM' until In the initial months after this closure a pre-recorded message with Mark Goodier was played to warn listeners that Radio 1 was now an "FM-only" station.
The BBC launched its national radio stations on DAB digital radio in , however the technology was expensive at the time and so was not marketed, instead used as a test for future technologies.
DAB was "officially" launched in as sets became cheaper. Sirius Canada began simulcasting Radio 1 when it was launched on 1 December also on channel The Sirius simulcasts were time shifted five hours to allow U.
BBC Radio 1 can be heard on cable in the Netherlands at On 10 August the BBC issued the following statement:. This agreement has now unfortunately come to an end and BBC Worldwide are in current discussions with the satellite radio station to find ways to continue to bring popular music channel, BBC Radio 1, to the US audience. We will keep you posted. The channel is still unavailable on the satellite platform of the service. All my best friends had trades so I started as a bricklayer on an apprenticeship for six months.
I hated it, got sent for tartan paint and a ladder for the skirting board, and got sacked. I was just sitting around watching The OC all day. I only went to the Preston College open day to get my mum off my back. They said they did a media course. In , he got his first show at the station and moved south permanently. Before he did, he relied on favours. All my money went on train fares. Now, he offers his own sofa to young people coming down — and thinks regional expansion in the media needs to be a priority.
Real talk: not everyone can afford to come down to London and do an internship. The signature tune for the show was called ' Beefeaters' by Johnnie Dankworth. The first day only 5 hrs consisted of programmes being broadcast on Radio 1 alone, and there was a dissatisfaction from young listeners who had lost the offshore pirate radio stations which, operating outside the law, did not have to observe the Phonographic Performance Ltd.
The BBC were only allowed to play 'commercial gramophone records' for 7 hours per day over both networks.
Some 'dual station' broadcasts continued until , when Radio 2 became the first UK national 24 hour radio station. Unfortunately, Radio 1 was the only of the four networks not to have a Stereo FM frequency allocated, and this was the case for 21 years. The official reason for this omission was that there was insufficient space on the FM dial, although there were no licensed Independent commercial stations at the time. Despite these setbacks, Radio 1 hit the ground running and doubled the Light Programme audience within the first month of launch.
Radio 1 Presenters 'Cut the Cake' to celebrate the1st birthday of R1. From its inception and throughout the 's and 's BBC Radio 1 was hugely successful, commanding weekly audiences of up to 24 million listeners.
The now famous 'Radio 1 Roadshow ' launched toured Britain's holiday resorts through the Summer. The Roadshows were broadcast live on-air. The daytime music format of the station was one of chart pop music, whilst evening programmes reflected up-and coming bands, rock and new-wave music. The Station Controller, Johnnie Beerling , had helped to make the station well - loved by its listeners by appealing to all age groups.
The network established transmissions from 6 am - 12 midnight every day in January when the station became totally separated from Radio 2. The ' Live Aid ' concert, the decade's major rock event, was broadcast in full on Radio One July The station began a 24hr service in May Do something! Newsnight with Annie Nightingale Annie takes over Newsnight for a special bass bulletin and weather report. Featuring DJ Emperor Rosko. Banned on the Run. The Ranking Miss. P Foundation Facebook. BBC Radio 1 transmission history.
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