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 and Capital East Midlands.

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 Buzz FM. It was relaunched as

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in 1999 and Capital Birmingham in January 2011. *

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

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 The Capital FM Network, C ...

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 programming is broadcast and produced from Global's London headquarters. Global's newsroom broadcasts hourly localised news updates from 6am-6pm on weekdays and 8am-12pm at weekends.

References

External links

Capital Birmingham

Capital East Midlands
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