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 Chris Evans Breakfast Show it was announced by Evans live on air that Zoë Ball would take over the show from January 2019. Evans takes over the airwaves from Vanessa Feltz at 6:30am (following the news headlines) and finishes with a handover to Ken Bruce at 9:30am. It was confirmed on 7 September 2009 that Evans would succeed Wogan when he retired as presenter of the breakfast show in December that year. On 6 January 2010, it was announced that Moira Stuart would return to the BBC, reading the news for the Chris Evans Breakfast Show. The original sports presenter Jonny Saunders was replaced