Capital Manchester and Lancashire is a regional radio station owned and operated by

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as part of the

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network. It was broadcast to

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and eastern & central parts of

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from studios at the XYZ Building in

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. The station launched in April 2019 as a result of a merger between

Capital Manchester Capital Manchester was a local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Capital radio network. The station broadcast from their studios at Global's Manchester HQ in the XYZ Building in Spinningfields, Manchester. In Apri ...

and 2BR.

Overview

The regional station originally broadcast as two separate stations. * Kiss 102 began broadcasting to Greater Manchester in October 1994, after taking over the licence previously held by Sunset 102. After being sold to Chrysalis, it rebranded as Galaxy 102 in 1997, before becoming a part of the

network in January 2011. * 2BR began broadcasting to the Burnley, Pendle and Hyndburn areas in July 2000. It was merged in June 2016 with The Bee to form a larger station under the 2BR moniker, also covering the Blackburn and Preston areas. The station was sold by UKRD to Global in July 2018. 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. 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. 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 ''Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp'' is a British national breakfast radio show on Capital. The show is broadcast from 6am to 10am each weekday.

'' with Roman Kemp. Regional programming is produced and broadcast from Global's Manchester studios from 4-7pm on weekdays,Capital FM - Manchester public file
/ref> presented by Rob Ellis, Rachel Burke-Davies and Nigel 'Wingman' Clucas.

News

Global's Newsroom broadcasts hourly localised news updates from 6am-7pm on weekdays and 6am-12pm at weekends with headlines on the half-hour during ''Capital Breakfast'' on weekdays. Separate bulletins are produced for Greater Manchester, Blackburn and Preston and Burnley and Pendle. The Manchester newsroom also produces bulletins for

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and

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(owned by Communicorp).

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Capital South Manchester and Lancashire Radio stations established in 2019