BBC Radio 1 30 September 2017, Radio 1 celebrated its 50th birthday. Tony Blackburn recreated the first ever Radio 1 broadcast on Radio 2, simulcast on pop-up station Radio 1 Vintage, followed by The Radio 1 Breakfast Show celebration, tricast on Radio 1, Radio 2 and Radio 1 Vintage, presented by Tony Blackburn and Nick Grimshaw, featuring former presenters as guests Simon Mayo, Sara Cox and Mike Read. Radio 1 regularly supports charities Comic Relief, Sport Relief and Children in Need. On 18 March 2011, BBC's Radio 1 longest serving breakfast DJ Chris Moyles and sidekick Dave Vitty broadcast for 52 hours as
BBC Radio Merseyside programming is produced and broadcast from Liverpool. As with all BBC Local Radio stations, it also airs the networked weekday evening shows, originating from BBC Radio Leeds and produced independently by Wire Free Productions. During the station's downtime, BBC Radio Merseyside simulcasts BBC Radio 5 Live overnight. The station's local presenters include Tony Snell (weekday breakfast), Sean Styles (weekday mornings), Roger Phillips (weekday lunchtime), Jenny Lee Summers (Monday / Tuesday afternoons), Billy Butler (Wednesday - Friday afternoons), Paul Salt (weekday drivetime) and Linda McDermott (weekday nights). During a breakfast show on 25 June 2007, presenter Simon O'Brien accidentally broadcast an