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
Ian Collins (radio presenter) and current affairs. Collins confirmed on-air that his "Late Show", ending 10am, 2 September, would be his last for talkSPORT and that his departure, after 16 years with the station, had been amicably planned since approximately June 2011. During his final show, Collins loosely suggested he would be involved in political debate in some capacity, and may make future appearances on talkSPORT, although this was not clarified. Collins became a presenter on Invicta FM in Kent. He joined the newly launched Talk Radio UK in 1995, which is now known as talkSPORT and is the station's longest serving presenter. He