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Broadcasting legend's family announces passing of "one of the UK's most enduring and popular radio personalities".

Steve Wright, who has died aged 69, hosted the anarchic breakfast show on Radio 1 for a year before switching to Radio 2, where he became a garrulous fixture on weekday afternoons with middle-of-the-road pop hits, interviews and features mixed with interjections from his regular on-air posse of equally mouthy subordinates, a format that became known as “zoo” radio.

FEATURE: Wright, who has died at 69, revolutionised British radio several times over. Kevin E G Perry remembers the veteran Radio 1 and 2 host

Steve Wright will feature on the new station, which is one of four new networks the BBC is planning.

Most people, as they grew up, they lose interest, which is fair enough. to me, i'm obsessed. she was 17 when she decided to become a journalist, she got a job on the brighton argus and got to interview the beatles. she became one of the first music journalists on fleet street, a pioneer in the largely all male world of rock. and as the first female presenter on the old grey whistle test, ushered in punk, new wave and a new era. the damned. siouxie and the banshees. the skids. some of those who followed in her footsteps have been paying tribute. radio 2 presenter zoe ball said she loved her mus...