Chris Moyles drive time show (from September 1998 to December 2003), before presenting the breakfast show from 5 January 2004 to 14 September 2012. In September 2009, he became BBC Radio 1's longest serving breakfast presenter. Moyles has become famous for his maverick broadcasting style on BBC Radio 1 and has been embroiled in numerous controversies, including accusations of sexism and homophobia, due to statements he has made on the air and in the press. He frequently made appearances on several television shows including "Hotel Babylon", a celebrity version of "Dale's Supermarket Sweep", "Top Gear", "The Charlotte Church Show", "The F-Word", "The
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire assistant for the opt-in station was Darren Deans. The next programme to opt out was "Sounds Eastern", two hours of music and commentary aimed at Peterborough's Indian, Pakistani, Sikh and Bengali population and presented by Ansar Ali. The Peterborough Breakfast show opt out was abandoned in 2013 due to BBC cutbacks and presenter, Paul Stainton, took over presenting duties of a new countywide show, before leaving the station in 2017. The station's first outside broadcasts were of results from local elections held soon after the station went on the air. The station's radio car was used from the back doors