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
Steve & Karen's Breakfast Show when TFM merged with Metro and ceased all local programming outwith news. The show currently uses the following features in its broadcasts: Steve & Karen's Breakfast Show Steve & Karen's Breakfast Show, is a local radio breakfast show, presented by Steve Furnell and Karen Wight and currently airing on Metro Radio and TFM in the North East of England. The radio breakfast show began on Tuesday 1 June 1999 when Steve Furnell launched regional radio station Galaxy North East. Karen Wight become his co-presenter in January 2001 after a year as senior broadcast journalist with the station. Galaxy was rebranded