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Greg James has been presenting the radio one breakfast show since the 20th of August 2018. the age range of the radio one breakfast show is 15 - 29 year olds. The difference between BBC Radio 1 and commercial stations is that commercial stations like capital have played 83 unique songs compared to Radio 1 443 which is musically much more distinctive. Audiences can access Radio 1 by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Radio sounds and any type of radio. They can interact with Radio 1 by calling in, tweeting and sending messages. Ofcom regulates the Radio and makes sure they are distinctive and they set the operating licence. It  fulfils its remit by informing, educating and entertaining. Ben Cooper is not worried about the drop of listeners because the listeners keep fluctuating up and down. To keep audiences engaged Greg James Makes it fun by coming up with interactive games and topics that he can talk about with the audience. The programme promotes British Music by providing exposure to songs that aren't often played on commercial radio they also have 17 different schemes to help discover new British Talent. They played a lot of pop with songs by taylor swift and miley cyrus.  They interviewed British artist Stormzy and they were playing a game and Stormzy was trying to learn the Jingle and they were talking about dunking fries in chocolate milkshake. Their were lots of news items like Kobe, coronavirus and sport news. They play lots of games and quizzes like the jan slam which means you can win tickets to the big weekend which is in glasgow, And then there is yesterday's quiz which is were they guess the animal sound to win money. The broadcast fits into their ethos of 'informing, educating and entertaining' as they inform people of the news and what's currently happening and educate them on these topics and entertain them by playing music and games and interacting to the audience. It differs from commercial Radio because it has its own remit to fufill and our controlled by themselves. The audience from my section is people who either like pop music or like stormzy and want to hear him talk. The Radio 1 breakfast show is very large and has drawn in more listeners each week, it has a weekly reach of 10.56 million listeners aged 10+ an increase from 10.25 million listeners last year. The 5 categories the BBC used to measure audiences in 2016 were Remit, scope of the BBC world service, service budget, contribution to BBC public purpose, annexes to this license. The BBC Radio station most targeted to a mass audience is Radio 2, and the BBC Radio station most targeted towards a niche audience with high levels of cultural capital is BBC 5.