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as a visual brand extension of radio's Capital FM. The channel played current chart hits. It reached 820,000 viewers on average every month on Sky alone. Capital TV was only allowed to play two or three commercial breaks each hour, 5 minutes long each. This was also the format for Heart TV.

History

On 3 July 2012,

announced it would launch a TV channel of the same name, Capital. The station launched on Sky and Freesat platforms on 11 October 2012 at , along with a TV channel of the same name for sister radio station

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. The channels could also be watched via dedicated

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apps, as well as online. On 17 October 2012, Capital TV also launched on Freeview in Manchester. Both channels played non-stop music videos 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and also featured some exclusive content, such as the

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. On 24 July 2012 it was confirmed BSkyB would be responsible for ad sales on both channels, likewise with the radio station, Capital TV was aimed at a younger target audience. The channel was not related to the former

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television channel of the same name, which ran in Cardiff between 2002 and 2009. It was removed from Freesat on 10 October 2018, and on Sky the next day, along with

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, and all mentions of it have disappeared from the Capital FM website. The first music video aired on the channel was “

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” by

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and the last music video was " Thunderclouds" by Labrinth, Sia and Diplo before showing a few minutes of "

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featuring

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before freezing halfway through the video making the channel cease transmission at 6am.

References

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