Capital Cymru
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| City | Caernarfon |
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| Broadcast area | Gwynedd and Anglesey |
| Slogan | The UK's No.1 Hit Music Station |
| Frequency | 103.0 MHz |
| First air date | (as Champion 103) 11 December 1998 at 10:03am |
| Format | Urban contemporary, News, Entertainment, Speech, Showbiz, Welsh music, Welsh programming |
| Audience share | 10.1% (March 2010, [1]) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 53°01′12″N 4°16′24″W / 53.0199°N 4.2732°WCoordinates: 53°01′12″N 4°16′24″W / 53.0199°N 4.2732°W |
| Owner | Global |
| Website | Capital Cymru |
Capital Cymru is a local, bilingual radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Capital radio network. The station broadcasts to Gwynedd and Anglesey from studios in Gwersyllt, Wrexham via the Arfon transmitting station.
Previously, the station formed part of the Heart radio network and earlier the Marcher Radio Group. It switched to Capital on Tuesday 6 May 2014. Heart North Wales now covers the region as part of the Heart Network.
When it launched in 1998 as Champion 103, it was the first station to serve Anglesey and Gwynedd as a whole, although Marcher Coast 96.3 had been broadcasting to a small part of the area for some time from its Colwyn Bay studios. The station originally broadcast from studios at Parc Menai in Bangor, Gwynedd (later sharing facilities with Heart North Wales Coast) before co-locating to the studios of Heart North West and Wales (now Capital) in Wrexham.
Although its official transmission area takes in most of the Isle of Anglesey and a large part of Gwynedd (as far south as Harlech), the location of its transmitter means the signal carries across Cardigan Bay and can be heard in parts of Pembrokeshire and even the Republic of Ireland.
The station is unique in the Capital FM network, broadcasting a mix of Welsh and English-language programming - local output is presented largely in Welsh and incorporates Welsh language music, with English language local content consisting of peak-time traffic bulletins and daytime news updates. In addition to daily breakfast shows, the station opts out of the network to carry additional local programming including an extended 6-hour afternoon/drivetime show and extra shows on weekend mornings. Network programming is relayed from London at all other times.
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