Capital South Wales is a regional radio station owned by Communicorp UK and operated by

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as part of the Capital network. It broadcasts to

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and Newport and the surrounding areas from studios in

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History

The station originally took to the air in Cardiff only. Known as CBC (Cardiff Broadcasting Company), the station launched on 11 April 1980 on broadcasting on FM and AM. Following the closure of neighbouring

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in April 1985, CBC began relaying its service as a temporary measure to southern Gwent on FM and AM. This became permanent when CBC re-launched as Red Dragon Radio on 14 October 1985. Initially, there were separate

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shows for

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and Gwent, but these were dropped for a single service by the early 1990s. Simulcasting on and AM ended in 1990, with the launch of Touch AM. On 3 January 2011, the station was rebranded from Red Dragon FM to Capital South Wales as part of a merger of owners

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and

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networks to form the

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. On 6 February 2014, Global Radio announced it would be selling Capital South Wales to

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. Capital's network programming and brand name are retained under a franchise agreement. Global's

Heart South Wales Heart South Wales is an regional radio station that broadcasts to South and West Wales from studios in Cardiff Bay. The station is owned and operated by Global Radio and forms part of the expanded Heart radio network of stations. Background ...

station shares facilities at the Capital studios in Cardiff Bay. On 26 February 2019, Global confirmed the station's local breakfast and weekend shows would be replaced with networked programming from April 2019. The weekday drivetime show was retained alongside news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising.

Coverage area

Initially, CBC broadcast to Cardiff on and Newport on FM. These frequencies were switched to and respectively in 1987, following a national reorganisation of UK FM frequencies. The signal, which is the stronger of the two, comes from the transmitter at Wenallt near Cardiff, with the signal being transmitted from

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in Newport. The signals reach as far out as the South Wales Valleys to the north and part of

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to the west. Capital South Wales also broadcasts on the NOW Digital South East Wales DAB multiplex and online.

Programming

All networked programming originates from Global's

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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. Local programming is produced and broadcast from Global's Cardiff Bay studios from 4-7pm, presented by Josh Andrews and Kally Davies.

News

Global's Newsroom broadcasts hourly regional news updates from 5am-7pm on weekdays and 8am-12 midday at weekends with headlines on the half-hour during ''Capital Breakfast'' on weekdays. The bulletins are produced for Communicorp by Global's Cardiff Bay newsroom, which also produces bulletins for

Heart North Wales Heart North and Mid Wales is a regional radio station owned by Communicorp UK and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network. It broadcasts to North and Mid Wales from studios in Gwersyllt, near Wrexham.

and

Smooth Wales Smooth Wales is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to the Cardiff area of South Wales and to the Wrexham area of North Wales, as well as parts of Cheshire in England. All programming content is now shared to both areas. It is the on ...

Former presenters

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* Carlos * Rich Clarke *

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* Jason Harrold *Dave KellyDave Kelly to replace Neil Fitzmaurice at Radio City
at How-do.co.uk *

Bobby McVay Robert (Bobby) McVay (born Glasgow) is a British singer and radio broadcaster. In 1983, he represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest as a member of the band Sweet Dreams. Singing the song " I'm Never Giving Up", the trio came ...

Vaughan Roderick Vaughan Roderick (born 5 June 1957) is a Welsh radio and television journalist and news presenter. Television Roderick is BBC Cymru Wales' editor for Welsh affairs on '' Wales Today'' and S4C's ''Newyddion'' respectively, having previously ancho ...

Noel Sullivan Noel Sullivan (born 28 July 1980 as Noel John Hayes) is a Welsh singer and actor. He was a member of the British pop group Hear'Say. Like the other members of the group, he won his part through the talent show '' Popstars''. Early life Sulli ...

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Capital South Wales

South Wales South Wales ( cy, De Cymru) is a loosely defined region of Wales bordered by England to the east and mid Wales to the north. Generally considered to include the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, south Wales extends westwards ...

Communicorp Radio stations in Cardiff Radio stations established in 1980 1980 establishments in Wales