BBC Radio 1Xtra

BBC Radio 1Xtra Broadcast area United Kingdom - Nationally via Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) Frequency DAB: 12B Freeview: 701 Freesat: 701 Sky: 0137 Virgin Media: 907 TalkTalk TV: 601 Live Stream Real/WM First air date 16 August 2002 Format Urban and hip hop and RnB, D&B, Dancehall and Garage Audience share 0.3% (December 2009, [1]) Owner BBC Website bbc.co.uk/1xtra BBC Radio 1Xtra is a digital radio station in the United Kingdom from the BBC specialising in new black music, sometimes referred to as urban music. Launched at 18:00 on16 August 2002, it had been codenamed Network X during the consulation period and is the sister station to BBC Radio 1. The station is broadcast from a dedicated building shared with Radio 1, Yalding House in central London, part of the BBC's sprawling Broadcasting House complex of radio studios and offices. Contents 1 Music policy 2 News and speech 3 Audience profile 4 Current Presenters & Shows 4.1 Former presenters 5 References 6 External links // Music policy Typical music includes largely British and North American hip hop, grime, bassline, garage, dubstep, drum and bass, UK funky, dancehall, soca, reggae, gospel music, bhangra and R&B. It is available on digital radio (DAB), digital satellite television, digital terrestrial television (Freeview), and the Internet. The first ever track played on 1Xtra was a specially created track produced by DJ Skitz and Rodney P and featuring Beverley Knight and Blak Twang. The show was presented by the Rampage DJ collective and the station's then breakfast show host, Female DJ KC.1 News and speech As part of its public service broadcasting remit, 1Xtra is required to carry a significant amount of news, information and speech content. 1Xtra has its own news service, 1Xtra News (formerly known as 'TX'), which is operated as a subsidiary of Radio 1's Newsbeat operations. The tone and style of the news presentation is in keeping with the station's overall target audience - young and predominantly urban.2 Initially, in addition to regular hourly bulletins, TX had a flagship weekday two-hour news, features and discussion show under the title 'TX Unltd' (pronounced 'Unlimited').3 This show - initially broadcast in a 5pm-7pm slot - rated poorly, however, and was later absorbed into a mixed music-and-speech format (similar to that used by Jeremy Vine on Radio 2) which aired in mid-afternoon (2pm-4pm) and was named after its host, female DJ Max.4 In 2009, the BBC Trust agreed to a further change to the scheduling of news content on 1Xtra, such that it could use the same format successfully operated by Radio 1's Newsbeat: two 15-minute news bulletins, one in the middle of the day and another in the early evening, with other speech features, profiles and social/cultural specials being broadcast on an ad-hoc basis within music-led shows, and with regular hourly news bulletins also continuing. The Trust required that 1Xtra's main bulletins not air at the same time as those on Radio 1.5 When the new bulletins were introduced in late summer 2009, they aired at 12noon and 5pm, with Radio 1's bulletins remaining at 12.45pm and 5.45pm. As of Summer 2009 it was reported that Radio 1 and 1Xtra were carrying shared news bulletins at weekends;6 weekday news output remains separate. Audience profile 1Xtra's typical audience is between 15 and 30 years old.7 The upper age range is deliberately lower than sister station Radio 1 which is closer to 35. According to the "Submission to the Secretary of State's review of digital channels" in March 2004, Radio 1Xtra "provides music output 24 hours a day, punctuated by bespoke BBC news bulletins and other speech output designed specifically to be pertinent to the audience." Current Presenters & Shows Monday Time Show Presenter 0100 DJ Edu - Destination Africa DJ Edu 0400 1Xtra's Rewind 0700 1Xtra Breakfast Show Twin B 1000 Trevor Nelson Trevor Nelson 1300 Gemma Cairney Gemma Cairney 1600 Westwood Tim Westwood 1900 MistaJam MistaJam 2200 RnB with Ronnie Herel Ronnie Herel Tuesday Time Show Presenter 0100 RnB M1X with CJ Beatz CJ Beatz 0400 1Xtra's Rewind 0700 1Xtra Breakfast Show Twin B 1000 Trevor Nelson Trevor Nelson 1300 Gemma Cairney Gemma Cairney 1600 Westwood Tim Westwood 1900 MistaJam MistaJam 2200 UKG with Cameo DJ Cameo Wednesday Time Show Presenter 0100 UKG M1X with DJ Q DJ Q 0400 1Xtra's Rewind 0700 1Xtra Breakfast Show Twin B 1000 Trevor Nelson Trevor Nelson 1300 Gemma Cairney Gemma Cairney 1600 Westwood Tim Westwood 1900 MistaJam MistaJam 2200 D&B with Bailey Bailey Thursday Time Show Presenter 0100 D&B M1X with Crissy Criss Crissy Criss 0400 1Xtra's Rewind 0700 1Xtra Breakfast Show Twin B 1000 Trevor Nelson Trevor Nelson 1300 Gemma Cairney Gemma Cairney 1600 Westwood Tim Westwood 1900 MistaJam MistaJam 2200 Dancehall with Robbo Ranx Robbo Ranx Friday Time Show Presenter 0100 Dancehall M1X with Young Lion Young Lion 0400 1Xtra's Rewind 0700 1Xtra Breakfast Show Twin B 1000 Trevor Nelson Trevor Nelson 1300 Gemma Cairney Gemma Cairney 1600 Westwood Tim Westwood 1900 Target DJ Target 2200 Hip Hop with Semtex DJ Semtex Saturday Time Show Presenter 0100 Hip Hop M1X with Charlie Sloth Charlie Sloth 0400 1Xtra's Rewind 0700 Nick Bright Nick Bright 1000 Charlie Sloth Charlie Sloth 1300 The 1Xtra Chart Sarah Jane Crawford 1600 Ace and Vis Ace and Vis 1900 Trevor Nelson Trevor Nelson 2100 Westwood Tim Westwood 2300 MistaJam MistaJam Sunday Time Show Presenter 0100 The 1Xtra Showcase 0300 The 1Xtra Mix 0500 My Top Ten 0600 1Xtra's Best of the Week 0700 Nick Bright Nick Bright 1000 Old Skool Sunday CJ Beatz 1300 Sarah Jane Crawford Sarah Jane Crawford 1600 Ace and Vis Ace and Vis 1900 My Top Ten 2000 1Xtra's Best of the Week 2100 BBC Radio 1Xtra's Stories 2200 100% HomeGrown with DJ Target DJ Target Current weekday daytime presenters are Trevor Nelson and Gemma Cairney, Rampage, Max, and Tim Westwood. Weekday evening shows begin with MistaJam helming a three-hour multi-genre show, followed by six hours of specialist output tailored to a particular genre (e.g. UK Garage, dancehall, etc.) Between October 2009 and spring 2010, the 4am-6am slot housed a replay of selected weekend specialist programming; this and the one-hour Morning Mix programme were dropped in spring 2010 and a new six-days-a-week 'early breakfast' show (4am-7am) hosted by Nick Bright was introduced. (The Saturday 4am replay of Target's Friday night show was also axed, to make room for Bright's sixth show) Weekend daytime presenters are Sarah-Jane Crawford, Twin B, Ronnie Herel, and Ace & Vis. Saturday evening content (7pm-7am) is now simulcast entirely with BBC Radio 1 - this allows Radio 1's flagship urban content to air on 1Xtra, with main shows from Trevor Nelson, Westwood, MistaJam, Fabio & Grooverider, Seani B and Ras Kwame. Sunday evening programmes include BBC Introducing show Homegrown with Ras Kwame, Soulful Beats with Benji B, and a new (from October 2009) show, In New 1Xtra DJs We Trust, featuring a rotating line-up of DJ performances. Former presenters An alphabetical list of past presenters is shown below: Daytime DJ Ayesha Letitia SD Nesha Reggie Yates Jason and Iyare KC Kelly Rowland Ms Dynamite Zena Dev Rampage Evening Aaron Ross DJ Blakey Diggz DJ Excalibah Flight DJ Femme Fatale Heartless Crew Hot Sound J Da Flex L Double LJ Blendz Machel and DJ Slic Manny Norte Richie Vibe Vee Rodney P and Skitz References ^ Wells, Matt (19 August 2002). "BBC enlists raw talent for radio station to woo black audience". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2002/aug/19/bbc.race. Retrieved 3 May 2009.  ^ 1Xtra News homepage ^ BBC Governors report includes a reference to TX Unltd ^ Max's 1Xtra page ^ BBC Trust review of youth audiences, 2009 (pdf) - includes approval of 1Xtra News changes ^ Digital Spy forums: 'Radio 1 and 1Xtra share news' ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/policies/pdf/dig_rev_1xtra.htm "BBC 1Xtra". Archived from the original on 25 February 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070225092921/http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/policies/pdf/dig_rev_1xtra.htm. Retrieved 5 April 2007.  "BBC NEWS - Entertainment - TV and Radio - 1Xtra celebrates birthday presence". 16 August 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3144799.stm. 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