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
The Radio 2 Breakfast Show to be an even more controversial choice, as his perceived acerbic manner was seen as being at odds with what the Radio 2 breakfast programme had become. Subtitled "Good Morning UK!", it did not prove popular and Hayes presented his last programme on 23 December 1992. During the Hayes era, the show was extended by 1 hour and was moved to an earlier start time of 6.30am. Terry Wogan returned to the BBC Radio 2 breakfast programme in January 1993. Now entitled "Wake Up to Wogan," it was the first time the breakfast show had explicitly been given a title