Capital Midlands

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Capital Midlands
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Capital East Midlands 2022.svg
Frequency FM:

Birmingham: 102.2 MHz (Kings Norton, Sandwell, Black Country and Birmingham) [1]

East Midlands:
102.8 MHz (Matlock, Bakewell and Derby) [2]
96.5 MHz (Mansfield)
96.2 MHz (Newark-on-Trent, Nottingham and Notts)
105.4 MHz (Leicester and Peterborough)

Contents

DAB:
10B (Derby)
11B (Wolverhampton & Shropshire)
11B (Leicester)
11C (Birmingham)
12C (Nottingham)
RDS Capital
Programming
Format Contemporary hit radio
Network Capital
Ownership
Owner Global
History
First air date
6 April 2019
Links
Website Capital Birmingham
Capital East Midlands

Capital Midlands is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Capital network. It broadcasts to Birmingham, parts of the Black Country and the East Midlands from studios at Brindleyplace in Birmingham City Centre.

The station launched in April 2019 as a result of a merger between Capital Birmingham and Capital East Midlands.

Overview

The regional station originally broadcast as four 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. [3]

As of April 2019, regional output consists of a three-hour Drivetime show from Birmingham on weekdays, alongside localised news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising for the East and West Midlands. [3]

The station retains studios in Birmingham and regional offices in Nottingham.

Programming

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

Regional programming is produced and broadcast from Global's Birmingham studios from 4-7pm on weekdays, [4] presented by Tom Watts and Claire Chambers. An additional Afro-Caribbean music programme airs from 2-4am Friday mornings in Birmingham only, presented by Capital XTRA presenter, Robert Bruce. [4]

News

Global's Newsroom broadcasts hourly localised news updates from 5am-7pm on weekdays and 5am-12pm at weekends. Separate bulletins are produced for the East and West Midlands.

The Birmingham newsroom also produce bulletins for sister stations Heart West Midlands and Smooth West Midlands. The Nottingham newsroom also produces bulletins for Smooth East Midlands (owned by Communicorp).

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References

  1. ↑ "Ofcom | Analogue Radio Stations".
  2. ↑ "Ofcom | Analogue Radio Stations".
  3. 1 2 Global to network Capital, Heart and Smooth breakfast shows, RadioToday, 26 February 2019
  4. 1 2 Capital FM – Birmingham public file

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