BBC Radio 1 was announced that Nick Grimshaw would leave the Breakfast Show after six years, the second longest run hosting the show in history (only second to Chris Moyles). However, Grimshaw is not leaving the station, but swapping slots with Greg James, who normally hosts the home time show from 4-7pm weekdays. This change took place as of 20 August 2018 for the Radio 1 Breakfast Show (which was then renamed to Radio 1 Breakfast). Nick Grimshaw's show started on 3 September 2018. In June 2018, another series of schedule changes was announced. This sees the BBC Introducing Show with Huw Stephens
Smooth Radio presenter history return from 24 March 2014, and a raft of presenters were hired to host the programmes. As well as Castle and Davis presenting breakfast and drivetime for Smooth Radio London, Darren Parks, formerly of Real Radio joined to present the breakfast show on Smooth Radio North West, while Carlos returned to front the region's drivetime programme. Smooth Radio North East hired Steve Coleman, previously a presenter on Magic AM for breakfast, and Clive Warren, formerly of Metro Radio and Radio 1 as his drivetime counterpart. On Smooth Radio East Midlands, the roles were filled by Gareth Evans of BBC Radio