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
Deborah Cameron (radio presenter) Deborah Cameron (radio presenter) Deborah Anne Cameron (1958 – 9 June 2018) was an Australian journalist and radio presenter based in Sydney. In January 2008, she took over from Virginia Trioli as host of the morning program on "ABC Radio Sydney". Cameron began her career at "The Warrnambool Standard", and in 1985 joined the Fairfax group, working at "The Canberra Times" and later "The Sydney Morning Herald". She was a correspondent in New York and Tokyo, and lived in Jakarta for five years, while working as a senior journalist for "The Sydney Morning Herald". Her husband is Greg Earl, Asia