BBC Radio 1Xtra

BBC Radio 1Xtra is a British digital radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It broadcasts Black music and urban music genres, and is a sister station to Radio 1.^[1] Launching at 18:00 on 16 August 2002, it had been code named "Network X" during the consultation period. At the time, the station was listed as "1 Xtra BBC" on many electronic programming guides. The station broadcasts mostly from the 8th floor of Broadcasting House, shared with Radio 1, Radio 2 and 6 Music.

According to RAJAR, the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 786,000 with a listening share of 0.3% as of March 2024.

BBC Radio 1Xtra's music includes largely British, North American, Caribbean and African hip-hop, rap, grime, drill, trap, jungle, UK garage, dubstep, drum and bass, UK funky, house, R&B, soul, urban, gospel, dancehall, soca, reggae, Afrobeats, amapiano and bhangra. It is available on BBC Sounds, digital radio (DAB) and digital television. 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 five-hour show was presented by the Rampage DJ collective and the station's then breakfast show host, KC.^[2]

As part of its public service broadcastingremit, 1Xtra is required to carry a significant amount of news, information and speech content. 1Xtra had its own news service, 1Xtra News (formerly known as "TX"), which was 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.^[3]

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").^[4] This show - initially broadcast in a 5 pm –7 pm 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 (2 pm –4 pm) and was named after its host, Max.^[5]

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.^[6] When the new bulletins were introduced in late summer 2009, they aired at noon and 5 pm, with Radio 1's bulletins remaining at 12:45 pm and 5:45 pm.

As of Summer 2009 it was reported that Radio 1 and 1Xtra were carrying shared news bulletins at weekends;^[7] weekday news output remained separate.

September 2012 saw a substantial increase in Newsbeat bulletins simulcast with Radio 1. Weekday breakfast bulletins at 6 am, 7.30 am, 8 am, 8.30 am and 9.30 am remain bespoke 1Xtra broadcasts. From 10:30 am, bulletins are shared with Radio 1, including the 15-minute Newsbeat magazines at 12:45 pm and 5:45 pm.

In the first quarter of 2011, 1Xtra was part of an efficiency review conducted by John Myers.^[8] His role, according to Andrew Harrison, the chief executive of RadioCentre, was "to identify both areas of best practice and possible savings."^[8]

In November 2017, reports signalled that the Roundhouse Rising concert series would partner with 1Xtra. As part of the change, the BBC curated a free grime night in the venue's Sackler Space.^[9]

BBC Radio 1Xtra's typical audience is between fifteen and thirty years old.^[10]

Según la "Presentación al Secretario de Estado para la revisión de los canales digitales" de marzo de 2004, Radio 1Xtra "ofrece programación musical las 24 horas del día, intercalada con boletines informativos personalizados de la BBC y otros contenidos hablados diseñados específicamente para ser pertinentes a la audiencia".

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  Logotipo de BBC Radio 1Xtra desde su lanzamiento el 16 de agosto de 2002 hasta el 20 de agosto de 2007, conocida como "BBC 1Xtra".
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  Logotipo de BBC Radio 1Xtra desde el 20 de agosto de 2007 hasta el 12 de abril de 2010.
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  Logotipo de BBC Radio 1Xtra desde el 12 de abril de 2010 hasta el 14 de enero de 2022.
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  Logotipo de BBC Radio 1Xtra desde el 14 de enero de 2022.

• "BBC 1Xtra" . Archivado del original el 25 de febrero de 2007. Consultado el 5 de abril de 2007 .
• Youngs, Ian (16 de agosto de 2003). "BBC NEWS - Entretenimiento - Televisión y Radio - 1Xtra celebra su aniversario" . BBC News . Consultado el 5 de abril de 2007 .

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