Capital Manchester and Lancashire

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Capital Manchester and Lancashire
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Broadcast area Greater Manchester, east and central Lancashire
Frequency
  • DAB: 12A Bauer Lancashire
  • DAB: 11C CE Digital Manchester
  • FM: 102.8MHz Chorley
  • FM: 99.8MHz
    Burnley
  • FM: 102.0MHz Manchester
  • FM: 106.5MHz Preston
  • FM: 107.0MHz Blackburn
RDS CAPITAL
Programming
Format Contemporary hit radio
Network Capital
Ownership
Owner Global
History
First air date
8 April 2019 (2019-04-08)
Links
Webcast Global Player
Website Capital Manchester
Capital Lancashire (Burnley & Pendle)
Capital Lancashire (Preston & Blackburn)

Capital Manchester and Lancashire is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Capital network. It broadcasts to Greater Manchester and eastern & central parts of Lancashire from studios at the XYZ Building in Spinningfields, Manchester.

Contents

The station launched in April 2019 as a result of a merger between Capital Manchester and 2BR.

Overview

The regional station originally broadcast as two separate stations.

On 26 February 2019, Global confirmed the two Capital stations would be merged, following Ofcom's decision to relax local content obligations from commercial radio. [2]

As of April 2019, regional output consists of a three-hour drivetime show from Manchester on weekdays, alongside localised news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising for the two areas. [2]

In late May 2021, transmissions covering the Chorley area moved from 96.3 MHz to 102.8 MHz.

Programming

All networked programming originates from Global's London headquarters, including Capital Breakfast .

Regional programming is produced and broadcast from Global's Manchester studios from 4-7pm on weekdays, [3] presented by Rob Ellis, Rachel Burke-Davies and Nigel 'Wingman' Clucas.

News

Global's Newsroom broadcasts hourly localised news updates from 5am-7pm on weekdays and 5am-12pm at weekends. Separate bulletins are produced for Greater Manchester, Blackburn and Preston and Burnley and Pendle.

The Manchester newsroom also produces bulletins for Heart North West, Smooth North West and XS Manchester (owned by Communicorp). [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Martin, Roy (31 July 2018). "Global expands in Lancashire after buying 2BR". Radio Today . Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  2. 1 2 Martin, Roy (26 February 2019). "Global to network Capital, Heart and Smooth breakfast shows". Radio Today . Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  3. 1 2 Capital FM - Manchester public file

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