BBC Radio 1 with the best station award. A new evening schedule was introduced in September 2006, dividing the week by genre. Monday was mainly pop-funkrock-oriented, Tuesday was R&B and hip-hop, Thursdays and Fridays were primarily dance, with specialist R&B and reggae shows. Following the death of John Peel in October 2004, Annie Nightingale is now the longest serving presenter, having worked there since 1970. The licence-fee funding of Radio 1, alongside Radio 2, is often criticised by the commercial sector. In the first quarter of 2011 Radio 1 was part of an efficiency review conducted by John Myers. His role, according to
Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show is a radio show that is broadcast across the UK from 6am to 10am on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays on BBC Radio 1. The show is a part of Radio 1's weekend schedule, and is currently presented by Matt Edmondson and Mollie King. "Weekend Breakfast" is an extension of "The Radio 1 Breakfast Show" which, before June 2018, aired on weekdays from 6:30 to 10am, while the weekend show aired on Saturdays and Sundays. In June 2018 Radio 1 decided to incorporate the Friday breakfast show into the station's weekend