High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! BBC Radio 1Xtra is a digital radio station in the United Kingdom from the BBC specialising in 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. The station is broadcast from a dedicated building shared with Radio 1, Yalding House in central London, part of the BBC`s Broadcasting House complex of radio studios and offices. The current station controller is Ben Cooper, who took over from predecessor Andy Parfitt on 28 October 2011.