Capital Midlands is a regional radio station owned and operated by

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as part of the

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network. It broadcasts to

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, parts of the

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and the

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from studios at

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

Capital Birmingham Capital Birmingham is a local radio broadcasting, radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Capital (radio network), Capital radio network. It broadcasts to Birmingham from studios at Brindleyplace in Birmingham City Centre ...

and

Capital East Midlands Capital East Midlands was a regional radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Capital radio network, broadcasting to the East Midlands from studios in Nottingham. It launched on 3 January 2011 following the merger of Tren ...

Overview

The regional station originally broadcast as four separate stations. *Choice FM began broadcasting in Birmingham on 1 January 1995, after taking over the licence previously held by

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. It was relaunched as

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in 1999 and

in January 2011. *

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in Nottinghamshire,

Leicester Sound Leicester Sound was an Independent Local Radio station which broadcast to Leicestershire. The station merged with two other East Midlands stations, Trent FM and Ram FM to form Capital FM East Midlands (part of Global's Capital FM Network) on Mo ...

in Leicestershire and

Ram FM Ram FM was an Independent Local Radio station, which broadcast to central and southern parts of Derbyshire on 102.8 FM. The station merged with two other East Midlands stations, Trent FM and Leicester Sound to form Capital FM East Midlands (p ...

in Derbyshire operated three separate localised services before they were merged and rebranded as part of the Capital network in January 2011. 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.Global to network Capital, Heart and Smooth breakfast shows
RadioToday, 26 February 2019 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. The station retains studios in Birmingham and regional offices in Nottingham.

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

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. Regional programming is produced and broadcast from Global's Birmingham studios from 4-7pm on weekdays,Capital FM – Birmingham public file
/ref> 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.

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 the East and West Midlands. The Birmingham newsroom also produce bulletins for sister stations

Heart West Midlands Heart West Midlands is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Heart network. It broadcasts to the West Midlands from studios in Birmingham. History Heart began broadcasting to the West Midlands on Tuesday 6 Septem ...

and

Smooth West Midlands Smooth West Midlands is an Independent Local Radio station for the Birmingham and the West Midlands. It is owned and operated by Global as part of the Smooth network. History GMG Radio The station launched following GMG Radio's purchase of ...

. The Nottingham newsroom also produces bulletins for

Smooth East Midlands Smooth East Midlands is an Independent Local Radio station for the East Midlands, 107.4 MHz, 97.2 MHz, 106.8 MHz 106.0 MHz which replaced Saga 106.6 FM at 6am on Monday 26 March 2007. It is owned by Communicorp UK and operated ...

(owned by Communicorp).

References

External links

Capital Birmingham

Capital East Midlands
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Radio stations established in 2019 Radio stations in the West Midlands (region)