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Capital 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.

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)

DAB:
10B (Derby and Oxford)
11B (Wolverhampton)
11B (Leicester)
11C (Birmingham)
12C (Nottingham)
12D (Coventry)

CAPITAL

Contemporary hit radio

Capital

Global

6 April 2019

Capital Birmingham
Capital East Midlands

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

Choice FM began broadcasting in Birmingham on 1 January 1995, after taking over the licence previously held by . It was relaunched as Galaxy in 1999 and Capital Birmingham in January 2011.

Buzz FM

in Nottinghamshire, Leicester Sound in Leicestershire and Ram FM in Derbyshire operated three separate localised services before they were merged and rebranded as part of the Capital network in January 2011.

Radio Trent

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.

Capital Birmingham

Capital East Midlands

52°28′36″N 1°54′50″W / 52.4768°N 1.9140°W / 52.4768; -1.9140