Capital South 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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and

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from studios in

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. The station launched on 6 April 2019, following the merger of Capital Brighton and

Capital South Coast Capital South Coast was a regional radio station owned by operated by Global Radio as part of the Capital radio network. It broadcast to Hampshire from studios in Segensworth, Fareham. In 2019, Capital South Coast was replaced by Capital South ...

Overview

The regional station originally broadcast as two separate stations. *Ocean Sound began broadcasting to Hampshire in October 1986, after taking over the licence previously held by

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. The FM service for the West of the region was subsequently split off and relaunched as Power FM in December 1988, before becoming part of the

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network in November 2008 and latterly, the

network in January 2011. * Surf 107 began broadcasting to Brighton and Hove in March 1998, subsequently relaunching as 'Juice 107.2' in 2001. The station was sold to Global from

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on 17 January 2018 for an undisclosed amount. The station closed down at midnight on 14 August 2018 and relaunched part of the Capital network in September 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 Fareham on weekdays, alongside localised news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising for the two areas.

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 Fareham studios from 4-7pm on weekdays,Capital FM – South Coast public file
/ref> presented by Emma-Jo-Real-Davies and Dave Goodings.

News

Global's Fareham newsroom broadcasts localised news updates hourly 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 Hampshire and Sussex. The Fareham newsroom also produces bulletins for

Heart South Heart South is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Heart network. It broadcasts to the south and south east of England from studios in Fareham, Hampshire. The station launched on 3 June 2019 as a result of a me ...

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Capital South

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