However, it's not the playlist, its listening figures or web-based social networking following that controller Ben Cooper is worried about - it's the place the up and coming era of moderators is originating from.
"It's the widely adored amusement at Radio 1 to attempt and second figure me and concocted their dream plan," he giggles as he addresses the BBC on Wednesday morning.
Cooper is talking to columnists as he uncovers Radio 1 Vintage - a fly up station which will communicate old shows from over the decades as a feature of the station's 50th birthday festivities in September.
He depicts the new pursuit as an incredible method for observing Radio 1's history - however shouldn't something be said about its future?
"I'm not arranging any calendar changes right now," he says, "yet I'm continually searching for crisp new ability, for the following arrangement of moderators, however I believe it's truly abnormal how it's getting harder.
"It's getting harder in light of the fact that you don't have any semblance of MTV moderators like Cat Deeley, Edith Bowman, Trevor Nelson or Zane Lowe.
"You don't have T4 with Vernon Kay and Dermot O'Leary. You don't have CD:UK or Top of the Pops. So it's truly elusive that next gathering of moderators that are coming up."
With less stages and roads for moderators to become well known, where could the up and coming era of radio moderators originated from?
As of late, Radio 1's line-up has now and then looked like a Sunday morning TV plan.
Fearne Cotton, Nick Grimshaw, Jameela Jamil and numerous more were employed to exhibit on the station after first cutting their teeth on TV.
Be that as it may, Cooper says the issue now with enlisting from TV is the key change in the sort of identities which fill our screens.
"With present day youth culture on TV, you can't pick somebody renowned off the TV, since what you have now is a ton of unscripted tv, and individuals who are acclaimed for a short blasted of time," he clarifies.
"So it's truly elusive those next stars in the radio business."
Saying that, Radio 1 has played with unscripted television stars in the past - like when Kelly Osbourne was procured to exhibit The Surgery.
Be that as it may, she kept going under year and a half and the station has once in a while done it since (albeit early breakfast have Adele Roberts was at one time a Big Brother challenger).
YouTubers
At the point when Dan and Phil joined the station in 2012, audience members' responses run from gigantic energy to "Sorry, who?"
While the station's more seasoned audience members won't not have known about vlogging, enlisting YouTubers who have developed their own particular after online appeared like a sensible following stage for a station which is continually pursuing a youthful group of onlookers.
The show was prominent, however the match - also called Dan Howell and Phil Lester - left the station following four years.
Cooper says: "We've taken a gander at YouTubers, individuals like Dan and Phil, however they get enticed by tremendous measures of cash and go off on world visits around America and Australia."
We may well observe more vloggers procured to introduce on the station later on, yet it's feasible the freely supported Radio 1 will battle to contend with the cash that YouTubers can make from lucrative marketing and underwriting bargains.
Business radio
Twenty years back, business radio was the regular place for BBC supervisors to search for new ability, and the other way around.
Scott Mills, Chris Moyles and Tim Westwood were altogether poached from business stations in the 1990s, and likewise, numerous BBC considers have escaped along with the universe of business.
Be that as it may, as of late, development has hindered.
Radio 1 has been searching somewhere else for on-air ability, yet simulcasting (where a similar show is communicate on numerous territorial stations) has implied there are less exhibiting employments in business radio.
However numerous moderators still swap sides - one of Radio 1's brightest new abilities, Clara Amfo, beforehand displayed on Kiss.
Understudy and group radio
So with an ever increasing number of roads into radio shutting, where precisely is the up and coming era of radio moderators originating from?
Cooper says the appropriate response lies in understudy and group radio stations.
"We got Greg James from understudy radio - he's the kind of notice kid for it. He gets mobbed each time he goes to a meeting," Cooper says.
"Understudy radio and group radio is the one place where despite everything you see individuals enthusiastic about getting into a stay with a receiver and broadcasting to audience members. That is the place I search for the following ability."
It's not recently the BBC who has been taking a gander at understudy stations for the up and coming era of huge names.
To take only one business case, Radio X's moderators incorporate Jack Saunders, Issy Panayis, Ross Buchanan and Michael Lavin - every one of whom begun on understudy stations.
For those considering a vocation in radio - joining to your school or college station now might be the most ideal approach.
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