After receiving weekly mix shows from DJs Tony Humphries[2][3][4] and Frankie Knuckles on two-hour cassettes from New York's Hot 97 and KISS[5][6] 100 respectively[7] in the early Nineties Eddie felt that a Radio 1 weekly show with DJs of different styles of music would offer more variety and the chance for the ever burgeoning UK dance music scene to flourish.
From 29 September 2006 to at least 2013, the show was entitled simply Pete Tong[10] (although the feature "Essential New Tune" remains), and is currently broadcast from 10.00pm to 1.00am.
A regular feature of the show is Tong's designation of one track as the Essential New Tune of the week.
[13] In China, the show is aired Saturday evenings from 10:00pm–12:00pm (2:00pm – 4:00pm UTC) on CRI Hit FM under its original name from 5 May 2012.
So it can be listened to at Beijing (FM 88.7 MHz) and Shanghai (FM 87.9 MHz)[14] Evolution with Pete Tong on Evolution (radio network) was distributed by Premiere Networks in a 2 hour format, from June 2013 to December 2016.