Capital Birmingham
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| City | Birmingham |
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| Broadcast area | West Midlands |
| Slogan | Birmingham's No.1 Hit Music Station |
| Frequency |
FM: 102.2 MHz RDS: CAPITAL_ DAB |
| First air date | 1 January 1995 |
| Format | Contemporary hit radio / Urban contemporary |
| Audience share | 7.1% (March 2014, RAJAR) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 52°28′24″N 1°55′10″W / 52.4732°N 1.9194°WCoordinates: 52°28′24″N 1°55′10″W / 52.4732°N 1.9194°W |
| Owner | Global |
| Sister stations |
Heart West Midlands Smooth West Midlands |
| Website | Capital Birmingham |
Capital Birmingham is a local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Capital radio network. It broadcasts to the West Midlands from studios at Brindleyplace in Birmingham City Centre. Capital Birmingham's transmitter is located at Metropolitan House on the A456. It is also available on DAB via the Birmingham, Coventry, and Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury and Telford multiplexes.
The station began broadcasting as Choice FM on 1 January 1995, after taking over the licence previously operated by Buzz FM. Four years later, Choice was renamed as Galaxy after it was bought out by Chrysalis. Galaxy was sold off to Global Radio in June 2007 in a £170 million deal which saw the group take over The Arrow, LBC and Heart.
The station was relaunched and re-branded as 102.2 Capital on 3 January 2011 as part of a merger of Global Radio's Galaxy and Hit Music networks to form the nine-station Capital radio network. In April 2013, the station along with Heart West Midlands moved to new studios at Eleven Brindleyplace in central Birmingham.
Unlike other stations on the Capital network, the 102.2 Capital licence was to cater primarily for Urban contemporary black music rather than a 'contemporary/chart music-led service'. The radio station format stated that the service should provide 'a rhythmic-based music and information stations primarily for listeners of African or afro-Caribbean origin, but with cross over appeal to young white fans of urban contemporary black music'.
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