Capital East Midlands
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| Broadcast area | East Midlands |
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| Branding | 96–106 Capital |
| Slogan | East Midlands' No.1 Hit Music Station |
| Frequency |
FM: 96.2 MHz (Nottingham) 96.5 MHz (Mansfield) 102.8 MHz (Derby) 105.4 MHz (Leicester) DAB: 11B (Leicester) 12C (Nottingham) 10B (Derbyshire) RDS: Capital |
| First air date | 3 January 2011 |
| Format | Contemporary hit radio, News, Entertainment, Speech, Showbiz |
| Audience share | 9.1% (June 2013, RAJAR) |
| Owner | Global Radio |
| Sister stations |
Classic FM Smooth East Midlands |
| Website | Capital East Midlands |
Capital East Midlands is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Capital radio network. It broadcasts to the East Midlands from studios in Nottingham. It launched on 3 January 2011 following the merger of Trent FM, Leicester Sound and Ram FM.
The regional station originally broadcast as three stations – Radio Trent began broadcasting to Nottinghamshire in July 1975, later expanding its coverage area to central and southern Derbyshire in March 1987 with split local programming introduced for the area. The Derbyshire station was relaunched in 1994 as Ram FM. Leicester Sound was launched in Leicestershire in September 1984, just over 11 months after the county's first ILR station, Centre Radio, went into receivership.
Both Trent FM and Leicester Sound were owned by Midlands Radio until a takeover by Capital Radio plc led to the stations being sold off to the GWR Group in 1993. In 2005, the owners merged with Capital to form GCap Media, which was later taken over by Global Radio. In June 2008, Global launched The Hit Music Network on Trent, Leicester Sound and Ram FM alongside Ten 17 in Essex, Hertfordshire's Mercury 96.6 and Mercury FM in Sussex and Surrey (also Mercia FM and Beacon Black Country until their sale to Orion Media). Local programming was restricted to daily breakfast and weekday afternoon & drive time slots with networked output originating from Nottingham. Two other Hit Music stations – London's 95.8 Capital FM and Red Dragon FM in south east Wales retained local output.
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