Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show

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Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show
Other namesWeekend Breakfast with James Cusack
Genre Music, chat
Running time180 minutes (7:00 am – 10:00 am)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Language(s) English
Home station BBC Radio 1
Hosted byJames Cusack
Recording studioStudio 82Mills, Broadcasting House, London (2018–2023)
Studio 1A, BBC Cymru Wales New Broadcasting House, Cardiff (2023–present)
Audio format Stereophonic sound
Website Sam and Danni, Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show

Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show is a radio show that is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 on weekends. It's currently hosted by James Cusack from MediaCity in Salford. [1]

Contents

Weekend Breakfast was an extension of Radio 1 Breakfast which, before June 2018, aired on weekdays from 6:30 to 10am, while the weekend show aired on Saturdays and Sundays. In June 2018, Radio 1 decided to incorporate the Friday breakfast show into the station's weekend schedule, using the weekend presenters. [2] In November 2020, the BBC announced changes to the Radio 1 schedules, meaning Matt Edmondson and Mollie King would move from weekend breakfast to weekend afternoons to replace Dev, who left the station in December 2020, and that the weekend breakfast show would only be broadcast on weekends. As of January 2021, they started airing on Fridays as well.

History

Weekend breakfast programming on Radio 1 was originally a continuation of Junior Choice , which had been broadcast on the BBC Light Programme (originally as Children's Favourites) since 1954. However, by the early 1980s this was seen as old fashioned and the Junior Choice title was dropped in the early months of 1982, with the programme renamed as Tony Blackburn's Saturday/Sunday Show. Children's requests were finally dropped in October 1984 when a new weekend breakfast show was launched. [3] [4] Peter Powell was the first presenter and he was followed by, among others, Mark Goodier, Sybil Ruscoe, Bruno Brookes, Liz Kershaw, Gary Davies, Kevin Greening, Clive Warren, and Dave Pearce. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the weekend breakfast show was split into two different shows until on 20 September 2003, they were merged.

List of Radio 1 Weekend Breakfast Presenters [5] [6]
NoPresenterFromToDuration
1 Spoony 20 September 200317 September 20062 years, 362 days
2 Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates 23 September 20067 October 20071 year, 14 days
3 Nihal 13 October 200731 August 2008323 days
4 Chappers and Dave (Interim)6 September 200819 October 200843 days
5 Nick Grimshaw 25 October 200824 May 2009211 days
6 Chappers and Dave (Interim)30 May 200928 June 200929 days
7 Dev 4 July 200920 September 200978 days
8 Edith Bowman 26 September 20091 April 20122 years, 188 days
9 Gemma Cairney 7 April 201223 March 20141 year, 350 days
10 Dev [a] 29 March 201411 November 20184 years, 227 days
11 Matt Edmondson and Mollie King 16 November 20183 January 20212 years, 48 days
12 Adele Roberts 9 January 202120 May 20232 years, 131 days
13Ore Olukoga (Interim)21 May 20233 September 2023105 days
14Sam McGregor and Danni Diston9 September 202314 December 20241 year, 96 days
15James Cusack11 January 20250 days

Notes

  1. ↑ Alice Levine co-hosted alongside Dev from 17 March to 11 November 2018.

Dev and Alice Levine (March - November 2018)

On 17 January 2018, BBC Radio 1 announced that Alice Levine would be shifted from the weekend afternoon slot (1-4pm) to co-host with Dev on the Weekend Breakfast slot. Matt Edmondson filled Levine's afternoon slot. [7] The show was then increased to three days (Friday to Sundays).

Matt Edmondson and Mollie King (November 2018 - January 2021)

On 26 October 2018, BBC Radio 1 announced that Matt Edmondson and Mollie King would join the Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show, swapping with Dev and Alice Levine. The schedule change may have been sparked by Charlie Sloth's unexpected departure from Radio 1 in October 2018. The changes took into place on 16 November 2018. [8] The first song of the show was Higher from The Saturdays and Flo Rida, as they called Greg James (Radio 1 Breakfast presenter) to pick it. [9]

Show Length

At the beginning, the show had a length of 3 hours, from 7-10am. Beginning in September 2014, the show was then increased to 4 hours (6-10am) due to changes in the late night and early morning schedule.

On 5 September 2019, the early morning schedule changed again; Arielle Free hosted the weekend early breakfast slot, and Mollie King hosted a new show called "Radio 1's Best New Pop with Mollie King" on Friday 6-6:30 am. This resulted in the show length reducing to 3 hours 30 minutes (6:30 - 10am) for Fridays; and 3 hours (7-10am) for Saturdays and Sundays.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the show was adjusted to 7-11am, inclusive of Radio 1 Anthems at the final hour of the show. The adjustment was to help Radio 1 promote social distancing and to limit the number of staff allowed in the studio. [10] The show was then moved to 7-10:30am in the September 2020 adjustments. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/jeremiah-asiamah-to-cover-mollie-king-on-radio-1
  2. ↑ McIntosh, Steven (10 April 2018). "Major schedule changes for BBC Radio 1" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
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  4. ↑ "BBC Radio 1 England – 29 September 1984 – BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
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  6. ↑ "BBC Radio 1 - Schedules". BBC. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  7. ↑ "Maya Jama and celebrity guests join Radio 1 weekend line-up - BBC Newsbeat". BBC Newsbeat. 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  8. ↑ "BBC Radio 1 announce Matt Edmonson and Mollie King as new Weekend Breakfast Show hosts". BBC Radio. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
  9. ↑ "BBC Radio 1 - Matt and Mollie, Friday Fun, Claire Foy and Party For One". BBC. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  10. ↑ "BBC - BBC Radio 1 implements changes to schedule amid Coronavirus crisis - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  11. ↑ "BBC - BBC Radio 1 to return to regular broadcast schedule with brand new time slot for Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
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