Radio 1 Breakfast show Timeline

Radio 1 Breakfast show Timeline

Introduction:

Radio 1 Breakfast is a radio show that is broadcast across the UK from 6:30am to 10am, Monday to Thursday. The show is the most listened to broadcast on BBC Radio 1. It is hosted by Greg James who took over from Nick Grimshaw on 20 August 2018 as the show's 16th presenter.

The show ran six days a week until February 1968 , then five days a week until June 2018, when the Friday show was dropped and incorporated into the station's weekend schedule, hosted by Weekend Breakfast hosts Matt Edmondson and Mollie King.

Timeline:

These are the last 16 presenters that have worked on the Radio 1 Breakfast show:

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

No	Presenter	From	To	Duration
1	Tony Blackburn	30 September 1967	1 June 1973	5 years, 244 days
2	Noel Edmonds	4 June 1973	28 April 1978	4 years, 328 days
3	Dave Lee Travis	2 May 1978	2 January 1981	2 years, 245 days
4	Mike Read	5 January 1981	11 April 1986	5 years, 96 days
5	Mike Smith	5 May 1986	17 May 1988	2 years, 12 days
6	Simon Mayo	23 May 1988	3 September 1993	5 years, 103 days
7	Mark Goodier	6 September 1993	24 December 1993	109 days
8	Steve Wright	10 January 1994	21 April 1995	1 year, 101 days
9	Chris Evans	24 April 1995	17 January 1997	1 year, 268 days
10	Mark and Lard	17 February 1997	10 October 1997	235 days
11	Kevin Greening and Zoe Ball	13 October 1997	25 September 1998	347 days
12	Zoe Ball	28 September 1998	10 March 2000	1 year, 164 days
13	Sara Cox	3 April 2000	19 December 2003	3 years, 260 days
14	Chris Moyles	5 January 2004	14 September 2012	8 years, 253 days
15	Nick Grimshaw	24 September 2012	9 August 2018	5 years, 319 days
16	Greg James	20 August 2018	present	188 days

• Data supplied by the BBC Genome Project.