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BBC 1Xtra is a digital
Digital radio in the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, the roll-out of digital radio is proceeding since test transmissions were started by the BBC in 1990. The UK currently has the world's biggest digital radio network, with 103 transmitters, with two national Digital Audio Broadcasting DAB ensemble and forty eight local and regional DAB ensembles broadcasting over 2...
 UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 radio station
Radio station

This article is about radio broadcasting, for other uses see Radio .Radio broadcasting is an audio broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device....
 from the BBC specialising in new black music, sometimes referred to as urban music. Launched at 18.00 on 16 August 2002, it had been codenamed Network X during the consulation period and is the sister station to BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a United Kingdom international radio station operated by the BBC, specialising in current popular music throughout the day, with a slight bias to Rock music & Independent music music....
. The programme is broadcast from a dedicated building shared with Radio 1, Yalding House
Yalding House

Yalding House is a building at 152?156 Great Portland Street, London, England, where BBC Radio 1 has been based since 1996.Yalding House is also home to BBC 1Xtra, the digital sister station of BBC Radio 1, and is the production base for both stations' news output: 1Xtra News and Radio 1's Newsbeat....
 in central London, part of the BBC's sprawling Broadcasting House
Broadcasting House

Broadcasting House is the headquarters and registered office of the BBC in Portland Place, London, England.Architect George Val Myer designed the building in collaboration with the BBC's civil engineer, M T Tudsbery....
 complex of radio studios and offices.

Music policy
Typical music includes largely British and North American hip hop
Hip hop music

Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
, grime, bassline
Bassline

A bassline is the term used in many styles of popular music, such as jazz, blues, funk, and electronic music for the low-pitched Part#Music or line played by a rhythm section instrument such as the bass guitar, double bass or keyboard ....
, garage
UK garage

UK garage is an umbrella term that refers to several different varieties of modern electronic dance music generally connected to the evolution of House music in the United Kingdom from early/mid-1990s....
, dubstep
Dubstep

Dubstep is a genre of electronic music that has its roots in London's early 2000s UK garage scene. Musically, dubstep is distinguished by its dark mood, sparse rhythms, and emphasis on bass ....
, drum and bass
Drum and bass

Drum and bass , also known as jungle, is a type of electronic dance music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast Break #Break beat , with heavy sub-bass lines....
, bashment
Bashment

Bashment may refer to:*another name for dancehall, a type of Jamaican popular music which developed around 1979*a term meaning 'party' in some parts of the Caribbean, also sometimes used to denote a particularly good party...
, soca
Soca music

Soca is a form of dance music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from calypso music. It originally combined the melodic lilting sound of calypso with insistent percussion and local chutney music....
, reggae
Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
, gospel music
Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
, bhangra
Bhangra

Bhangra is a form of music and dance that originated in the Punjab region in India. It is commonly associated with the Sikhs. Bhangra began as a folk dance conducted by farmers to celebrate the coming of Spring, or Vaisakhi....
 and R&B.






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BBC 1Xtra is a digital
Digital radio in the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, the roll-out of digital radio is proceeding since test transmissions were started by the BBC in 1990. The UK currently has the world's biggest digital radio network, with 103 transmitters, with two national Digital Audio Broadcasting DAB ensemble and forty eight local and regional DAB ensembles broadcasting over 2...
 UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 radio station
Radio station

This article is about radio broadcasting, for other uses see Radio .Radio broadcasting is an audio broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device....
 from the BBC specialising in new black music, sometimes referred to as urban music. Launched at 18.00 on 16 August 2002, it had been codenamed Network X during the consulation period and is the sister station to BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a United Kingdom international radio station operated by the BBC, specialising in current popular music throughout the day, with a slight bias to Rock music & Independent music music....
. The programme is broadcast from a dedicated building shared with Radio 1, Yalding House
Yalding House

Yalding House is a building at 152?156 Great Portland Street, London, England, where BBC Radio 1 has been based since 1996.Yalding House is also home to BBC 1Xtra, the digital sister station of BBC Radio 1, and is the production base for both stations' news output: 1Xtra News and Radio 1's Newsbeat....
 in central London, part of the BBC's sprawling Broadcasting House
Broadcasting House

Broadcasting House is the headquarters and registered office of the BBC in Portland Place, London, England.Architect George Val Myer designed the building in collaboration with the BBC's civil engineer, M T Tudsbery....
 complex of radio studios and offices.

Music policy


Typical music includes largely British and North American hip hop
Hip hop music

Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
, grime, bassline
Bassline

A bassline is the term used in many styles of popular music, such as jazz, blues, funk, and electronic music for the low-pitched Part#Music or line played by a rhythm section instrument such as the bass guitar, double bass or keyboard ....
, garage
UK garage

UK garage is an umbrella term that refers to several different varieties of modern electronic dance music generally connected to the evolution of House music in the United Kingdom from early/mid-1990s....
, dubstep
Dubstep

Dubstep is a genre of electronic music that has its roots in London's early 2000s UK garage scene. Musically, dubstep is distinguished by its dark mood, sparse rhythms, and emphasis on bass ....
, drum and bass
Drum and bass

Drum and bass , also known as jungle, is a type of electronic dance music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast Break #Break beat , with heavy sub-bass lines....
, bashment
Bashment

Bashment may refer to:*another name for dancehall, a type of Jamaican popular music which developed around 1979*a term meaning 'party' in some parts of the Caribbean, also sometimes used to denote a particularly good party...
, soca
Soca music

Soca is a form of dance music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from calypso music. It originally combined the melodic lilting sound of calypso with insistent percussion and local chutney music....
, reggae
Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
, gospel music
Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
, bhangra
Bhangra

Bhangra is a form of music and dance that originated in the Punjab region in India. It is commonly associated with the Sikhs. Bhangra began as a folk dance conducted by farmers to celebrate the coming of Spring, or Vaisakhi....
 and R&B. It is available on digital radio (DAB
Digital audio broadcasting

Digital Audio Broadcasting , also known as EUREKA, is a digital radio technology for broadcasting radio stations, used in several countries, particularly in the UK and Europe....
), digital satellite television, digital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television

Digital Terrestrial Television is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional Antenna instead of a satellite dish or cable connection....
 (Freeview), and the Internet
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
. It has its own news team: 1Xtra News.

Audience profile


1Xtra's typical audience is between 15 and 30 years old. 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, 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."

Previous presenters


An alphabetical list of previous presenters is shown below:

Daytime

  • DJ Ayesha
    DJ Ayesha

    Ayesha Asantewaa is a disco jockey and television presenter for BBC 1Xtra and CBBC.Ayesha attended Blaze Radio Summer School with Preston Manor High School, where she learnt to present radio, make vox pops and idents, and packages....
  • Letitia SD
  • Nesha
  • Reggie Yates
    Reggie Yates

    Reginald Yates is a United Kingdom actor, television presenter and radio DJ of Ghanaian descent....
  • Jason and Iyare
    Jason and Iyare

    Jason and Iyare are daytime DJs and presenters on BBC 1Xtra radio, presenting a breakfast show from 6-9am every weekday morning.Jason Mitchell is known in London's Hip Hop & R'n'B scene as a co-founder of the DJ team Twice Ez Nice in 1989 With DJ/Producer Ollie Twist....


  • KC
    KC

    KC may stand for any of the following:*The Kansas City Metropolitan Area, and anchor city Kansas City, Missouri, including:**Kansas City, Kansas...
  • Kelly Rowland
    Kelly Rowland

    Kelly Rowland is an American singer-songwriter, and occasional actor, who rose to fame in the late 1990s as one of the founding members of the girl group Destiny's Child....
  • Ms Dynamite
  • Zena


Evening

  • Aaron Ross
  • DJ Blakey
    DJ Blakey

    DJ Blakey is a Hip hop and Drum and Bass DJ from London, England. He Won the UK DMC Final in 2004....
  • 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
    Rodney P

    Rodney P is an England MC who entered the UK hip hop scene in the 1980s. He started out as a member of the London Posse, one of the UK's first home grown hip hop acts who were highly influential in the development of the genre....
     and Skitz

External links


  • at bbc.co.uk
    Bbc.co.uk

    BBC Online is the brand name and home for the BBC's United Kingdom online service. It is a large network of websites including such high profile sites as BBC News and Sport, the on demand video and radio services co-branded BBC iPlayer, the pre-school site Cbeebies, and learning services such as Bitesize....