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
Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show for the foreseeable future. If he had stayed on breakfast, this would have meant a late-night finish for Dev on Thursdays, followed by an early-morning start on Fridays. The changes took into place on 16 November 2018. 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. At the beginning, the show had a length of 3 hours, which was from 7-10am. Beginning from September 2014, the show is then increased to 4 hours (6-10am) due to changes on the late night and early