Capital Manchester and Lancashire

Capital Manchester and Lancashire
Broadcast areaGreater Manchester, east and central Lancashire
SloganManchester's No.1 Hit Music Station
Lancashire's No.1 Hit Music Station
FrequencyFM:
96.3 MHz Chorley
99.8 MHz (Burnley)
102 MHz (Manchester)
106.5 (Preston)
107 MHz (Blackburn and Accrington
DAB:11C(Manchester)
12A (Lancashire)RDS: Capital
First air date8 April 2019
FormatContemporary hit radio
OwnerGlobal
Sister stationsCapital Liverpool
Capital North West and Wales
WebsiteCapital Manchester
Capital Lancashire

Capital Manchester and Lancashire is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Capital network. It broadcasts to Greater Manchester and eastern & central parts of Lancashire from studios at the XYZ Building in Spinningfields, Manchester.

The station launched in April 2019 as a result of a merger between Capital Manchester and 2BR.

Overview

The regional station originally broadcast as two separate stations.

  • Kiss 102 began broadcasting to Greater Manchester in October 1994, after taking over the licence previously held by Sunset 102. After being sold to Chrysalis, it rebranded as Galaxy 102 in 1997, before becoming a part of the Capital network in January 2011.
  • 2BR began broadcasting to the Burnley, Pendle and Hyndburn areas in July 2000. It was merged in June 2016 with The Bee to form a larger station under the 2BR moniker, also covering the Blackburn and Preston areas. The station was sold by UKRD to Global in July 2018.[1]

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.[2]

As of April 2019, regional output consists of a three-hour Drivetime show from Manchester on weekdays, alongside localised news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising for the two areas.[3]

Programming

All networked programming originates from Global's London headquarters, including Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp.

Regional programming is produced and broadcast from Global's Manchester studios from 4-7pm on weekdays,[4] presented by Rob Ellis, Rachel Burke-Davies and Nigel 'Wingman' Clucas.

News

Global's Newsroom broadcasts hourly localised news updates 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 Greater Manchester, Blackburn & Preston and Burnley & Pendle.

The Manchester newsroom also produces bulletins for Heart North West, Smooth North West and XS Manchester (owned by Communicorp).[5]

References

External links

Coordinates: 53°28′50″N 2°15′12″W / 53.480543°N 2.253398°W / 53.480543; -2.253398


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