Talk:BBC Radio 1

Events?

Radio 1 runs 'One Big Weekend' every year, a free 2 day concert. Radio 1 also sponsers a stage at the reading and leeds festivals each year

Chis Moyles weekly roundup is #1 UK podcast... radio 1 diversifying by suppling podcasts and such

So what sort of material do they have on this radio station? Pop music? Golden oldies? Talkback? Sports? This entry is useless for somebody who hasn't already been exposed to the station. --Robert Merkel

Check out their website nad find out www.bbc.co.uk/radio1

Explicit image size vs thumbnail

Is there any reason to use a constant width of 200px for the logo instead of using individual users' preferences for thumbnails? I use Wikipedia on my PC and on a mobile/PDA. On my PC, both settings look pretty similar. However, on my PDA the logo is way too big at 200px, but looks great if set as a thumbnail because I have set thumbnail display to 120px in Special:Preferences. --throup ✆ ✍ 18:49, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Any ideas to why eminems new album the re-up aint in the top 75 album chart????? is it cos its a colaboration album???? if so its abit of a stupid rule!

and why hasnt eminem new single You dont know in the top 75 singls chart either??????? and shayne wards stand by me song. its asif radio 1 fake the chart or sumthin!

Schedule

Is this information really enyclopedic? Seems a bit too much like fancruft, or just simply useless information to me. Robdurbar 00:30, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

I came here to say the same. It seems to me that a current schedule is not encyclopedic, and we are not the Radio Times. Why a current schedule and not, say, the schedule from the week of launch? I'm going to remove it. --kingboyk 21:26, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Sirius Satellite Radio

BBC Radio 1 is now carried by Sirius, I see no mention of this in the article. I also see no mention of the fact that it is not a live mirrored stream of Radio 1 (what sirius broadcasts and what BBC Radio 1 webcasts are different).  ALKIVAR™ 10:07, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

' In July of 2005, Sirius Satellite Radio began simulcasting Radio 1 across the United States on channel 11, and Sirius Canada began simulcasting Radio 1 when they launched on December 1, 2005 (also on channel 11). The simulcast is timeshifted five hours to allow US and Canadian listeners in the Eastern Time Zone to hear Radio 1 at the same time of day as UK listeners.'

- taken from the article Robdurbar 10:11, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

bobby friction and nihal

needs some more info about bobby and nihal's show on R1 - at the moment they are only mentioned and have no page of their own and the nihal link goes to the wrong page.

any bobby and nihal fans want to help out? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.178.179.109 (talk • contribs) 18:02, April 12, 2006 (UTC)

Transmitters

Anyone know about where the transmitters are etc for Radio 1? This could easily be it's own sub-article if someone knows anything...--Gavinio 08:17, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Newsbeat

I've added a short bit about Newsbeat and linked it into the main article. I can't stand Newsbeat do maybe someone else would be better at expanding this section. --MikeNolan 20:20, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

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Censorship?

Unfortunately Radio 1 has had a history of musical censorship during its history. During the tenure of Matthew Banister the station refused to play British Hip Hop after the political connotations of the Rodney King beatings. In fact it took years for Radio 1 to recognise Hip Hop especially in the mid Eighties. Another sub Genre was Hi Energy. This sub Culture associated with the Gay nightclub scene in the late 1970's / early 1980's was blacklisted from Radio 1 play lists. And Finally up to date , the station has still refused to come to terms with Gabba , Happy Hardcore and Scouse dance genres.

If you think that is ridiculous during the first Gulf War in !991 they refused to play "Massive Attack" because of their programming rules. Daft.

True that Radio 1 has made a few daft censorship decisions in the past. I can't remember any offhand, but there have been one or two that have made me scratch my head and think "Why?!"

However, Radio 1, as it's name would suggest, is intended to reach a wide audience. I'm not sure that many people would be keen on Ultraviolence or Aphex Twin in the middle of their drive to work. Remember that Radio 1 was the first legal station in this country to play Jungle and Drum'n'Bass, way before Kiss FM was even begun. They often have themed nights where they will play the more eclectic music, I have been introduced to various electronica through Radio 1. And with regards to the gay music: I was taping Bronski Beat songs off the radio in the early-mid 80s, I don't think you can have more of a gay anthem than Small Town Boy!

Just because a radio station isn't playing much of what is actually a very niche genre of music doesn't mean they are censoring music. For instance, a year or two back I saw Ultraviolence in London and there were no more than 200 people in the whole gig, including Johnny himself and the angle-grinder-woman. Radio 1 play a lot of "proper" music, i.e. not bubblegum pop/teeny bop. They can't cater for everything, but I bet if you were to listen 24/7 for a month you would hear some Gabba, Happy Hardcore or Scouse. Probably at 4 am, but that's always been the penalty for liking a minority genre.

Thoughts on this artical

This artical is good but its its abit wordy and their are no tables to display infomation which helps to digest info