Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show
Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show is a radio show that is broadcast across the UK from 6.30am to 10am on Fridays. Saturdays and Sundays it is broadcast between 7-10am 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 schedule, using the weekend presenters.
History
Weekend breakfast programming on Radio 1 had originally been a continuation of Junior Choice with Ed Stewart and later Tony Blackburn which had been broadcast on the BBC Light Programme 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, Mark Goodier, Sybil Ruscoe, Bruno Brookes and Liz Kershaw together, Gary Davies, Kevin Greening, Clive Warren and Dave Pearce. 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.| No | Presenter | Showtime | From | To | Duration |
| 1 | Spoony | Sat - Sun 07:00 - 10:00 | 20 September 2003 | 17 September 2006 | |
| 2 | Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates | Sat - Sun 07:00 - 10:00 | 23 September 2006 | 7 October 2007 | |
| 3 | Nihal | Sat - Sun 07:00 - 10:00 | 13 October 2007 | 31 August 2008 | |
| 4 | Chappers and Dave | Sat - Sun 07:00 - 10:00 | 6 September 2008 | 19 October 2008 | |
| 5 | Nick Grimshaw | Sat - Sun 07:00 - 10:00 | 25 October 2008 | 24 May 2009 | |
| 6 | Chappers and Dave | Sat - Sun 07:00 - 10:00 | 30 May 2009 | 28 June 2009 | |
| 7 | Dev | Sat - Sun 07:00 - 10:00 | 4 July 2009 | 20 September 2009 | |
| 8 | Edith Bowman | Sat - Sun 07:00 - 10:00 | 26 September 2009 | 1 April 2012 | |
| 9 | Gemma Cairney | Sat - Sun 07:00 - 10:00 | 7 April 2012 | 23 March 2014 | |
| 10 | Dev | Sat - Sun 07:00 - 10:00 | 29 March 2014 | 31 August 2014 | |
| 10 | Dev | Sat - Sun 06:00 - 10:00 | 6 September 2014 | 10 March 2018 | |
| 11 | Dev and Alice Levine | Sat - Sun 06:00 - 10:00 | 17 March 2018 | 10 June 2018 | |
| 11 | Dev and Alice Levine | Fri - Sun 06:00 - 10:00 | 15 June 2018 | 11 November 2018 | |
| 12 | Matt Edmondson and Mollie King | Fri - Sun 06:00 - 10:00 | 16 November 2018 | 1 September 2019 | |
| 12 | Matt Edmondson and Mollie King | Fri 06:30 - 10:00 Sat - Sun 07:00 - 10:00 | 6 September 2019 | Current |
Dev and Alice Levine (March - November 2018)
On 17 January 2018, BBC Radio 1 announced that Alice Levine will be shifted from weekend afternoon slot to co-host Dev on Weekend Breakfast slot. At a time when pay equality is under scrutiny at the BBC, Radio 1 confirmed Alice Levine and Dev will earn the same, as will Maya and Jordan. Matt Edmondson filled Alice Levine's afternoon slot. The show was then increased to three days as the weekend schedule was incorporated into Friday's schedule.Matt and Mollie (November 2018 - Present)
On 26 October 2018, BBC Radio 1 announced that Matt Edmondson and Mollie King will join the Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show, swapping with Dev and Alice Levine which will be shifted to afternoon slot at 1-4pm. The schedule change may have been sparked by Charlie Sloth'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 and Flo Rida, as they called Greg James 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 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 for Fridays; and 3 hours for Saturdays and Sundays.