''Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show'' is a radio show that is broadcast on

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on weekends. It is currently hosted by

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, who took over since January 2021. ''Weekend Breakfast'' was an extension of ''

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'' 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 schedule, using the weekend presenters. In November 2020, the BBC announced changes to the Radio 1 schedules, meaning

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and

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would move from weekend breakfast to weekend afternoons to replace Dev, who left the station in December 2020, and that the weekend breakfast show would only be broadcast on weekends. As of January 2021, they started airing on Fridays as

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now does five days a week.

History

Weekend breakfast programming on Radio 1 had originally been a continuation of ''

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'' with

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and later Tony Blackburn which had been broadcast on the

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(originally as ''Children's Favourites'') since 1954. This ended in September 1984 when a new weekend breakfast show, minus the children's requests, was launched with Peter Powell being the first presenter followed by, among others,

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and

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together, Gary Davies,

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, Clive Warren and

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. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the weekend breakfast show was split into two different shows by two different DJs until on 20 September 2003, the separate weekend breakfast shows were merged.

Notes

Dev and Alice Levine (March - November 2018)

On 17 January 2018, BBC Radio 1 announced that

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would be shifted from the weekend afternoon slot (1-4pm) to co-host Dev on the Weekend Breakfast slot. At a time when pay equality is under scrutiny at the BBC, Radio 1 confirmed

and Dev would earn the same, as will Maya and Jordan.

filled

's afternoon slot. The show was then increased to three days (Friday to Sundays) as the weekend schedule was incorporated into Friday's schedule.

Matt Edmondson and Mollie King (November 2018 - January 2021)

On 26 October 2018, BBC Radio 1 announced that

and

would join the Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show, swapping with Dev and

which shifted to the afternoon slot at 1-4pm. The schedule change may have been sparked by

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's unexpectedly early departure from Radio 1 in October 2018. As a result, Dev has been covering Charlie Sloth's evening show, namely The 8th. According to Radio 1's website, he will continue to do for the foreseeable future. If he had stayed on breakfast, this would have meant a late-night finish for Dev on Thursdays, followed by an early-morning start on Fridays. The changes took into place on 16 November 2018. The first song of the show was Higher from

The Saturdays The Saturdays were a British-Irish girl group based in London, England. The group formed during the summer of 2007 and have been on hiatus since 2014. The lineup consists of Frankie Bridge, Una Healy, Rochelle Humes, Mollie King, and Vanessa ...

and Flo Rida, as they called

(Radio 1 Breakfast presenter) to pick it.

Show Length

At the beginning, the show had a length of 3 hours, which was from 7-10am. Beginning from September 2014, the show was then increased to 4 hours (6-10am) due to changes on the late night and early morning schedule. From 5 September 2019, another shake up happened to the early morning schedule. Arielle Free hosts the weekend early breakfast slot, and Mollie King hosts a new show called "Radio 1's Best New Pop with Mollie King" on Friday 6-6:30 am. This results in the show reducing to 3 hours 30 minutes (6:30 - 10am) for Fridays; and 3 hours (7-10am) for Saturdays and Sundays. Due to the

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pandemic, the show was adjusted to 7-11am, inclusive of Radio 1 Anthems at the final hour of the show. The adjustment was to help Radio 1 promote

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and to limit the number of staff allowed in the studio. The show is then moved to 7-10am in the September 2020 adjustments.

References

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