Capital Yorkshire

Radio station in Leeds, England

Capital Yorkshire

* Leeds

Broadcast area| South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire & Northern Lincolnshire
Frequency|

* DAB: 11B Bradford & Huddersfield
* DAB: 10D Bauer Humberside
* DAB: 12D Bauer Leeds
* DAB: 10C MuxCo North Yorkshire
* DAB: 11C Bauer Sheffield
* FM: 105.1 MHz South & West Yorkshire
* FM: 105.6 MHz Bradford
* FM: 105.6 MHz Sheffield
* FM: 105.8 MHz Humberside

RDS| CAPITAL
Branding| Yorkshire’s No.1 Hit Music Station
Programming
Format| Contemporary hit radio
Network| Capital
Ownership
Owner| Global

Sister stations

* Capital Cymru
* Capital Liverpool
* Capital Manchester and Lancashire
* Capital Mid-Counties
* Capital Midlands
* Capital North East
* Capital North West and Wales
* Capital Scotland
* Capital South
* Capital South Wales
* Capital UK
* Capital Xtra
* Heart Yorkshire

History

First air date

| 14 February 1997 (1997-02-14)
Links
Webcast| Global Player
Website| www.capitalfm.com/yorkshire/

Capital Yorkshire is a regional radio station owned by Global as part of the Capital network. It broadcasts to South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire from studios in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

The licence held makes Capital Yorkshire the largest regional British radio station[1] outside London.

## Technical[edit]

Capital Yorkshire broadcasts on 105.8 MHz FM at a power of 9.6 kW from High Hunsley, which covers the East Riding of Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire and on 105.1 MHz FM at a power of 2.4 kW from Emley Moor, which covers West Yorkshire. It also has two filler transmitters, both on 105.6 MHz FM, one from Idle at 0.5 kW which covers Bradford and the other from Tapton Hill at 0.24 kW covering Sheffield.

DAB broadcasts were formerly provided on the MXR 12A Yorkshire region multiplex from nine transmitters, with the strongest signal from Emley Moor, and other DAB signals from Belmont, Bilsdale, Acklam Wold (North Yorkshire), and Tapton Hill. With the closure of the MXR multiplex in 2015, Capital rolled down to being delivered over the five local area multiplexes around Yorkshire and the Humber, enabling continuation of essentially region-wide coverage.

A version of Galaxy Yorkshire's output was also broadcast in various other areas on DAB as Galaxy Digital, with the UK's ID to replace the Yorkshire one and the regional Yorkshire adverts replaced by UK-wide adverts. (In some cases, a cut down song would be played to fill in for all or part of the commercial break.) This service was aired in a number of areas which did not have their own Galaxy service (including London and the East Midlands), and was also broadcast on Sky and Virgin Media until 15 November 2010 when it was replaced with LBC News 1152.[2] Galaxy was removed from the London DAB multiplex on 16 November 2010, replaced by The Arrow (the only Global station brand not transmitted in London at that time.)

## History[edit]

### Galaxy Yorkshire[edit]

The station launched at 1.05 pm on 14 February 1997 as Kiss 105, but became Galaxy 105 later that year after a take over by the Chrysalis Group, then in 2006 it became simply Galaxy Yorkshire. Launched as a dance music station, later years saw the playlist expanded to incorporate urban music genres.

The stations strapline was altered to "passion for music, passion for life" to reflect its new target demographic which had been changed from 15–29 to 15–34 [citation needed]. This was reinforced by the playing of more old school "Galaxy Anthems" – similar to Bauer rival Kiss's "Kisstory". In 2008 it was rebranded as a mainstream station along with all the other Galaxy Stations with a new 'Love Music' strapline before becoming "Yorkshire's No. 1 Hit Music Station" in July 2010.

### Capital Yorkshire[edit]

The station was rebranded as Capital Yorkshire on 3 January 2011 as part of a merger of Global Radio's Galaxy and Hit Music networks to form the nine-station Capital network.[3] On 20 June 2014, long serving Capital Breakfast presenter Simon Hirst (now Stephanie Hirst) left Global Radio after 14 years.[4]

On 26 February 2019, Global confirmed the station's local breakfast and weekend shows would be replaced with networked programming from April 2019. The weekday Drivetime show was retained alongside news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising.[5]

## Programming[edit]

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

Local programming is produced and broadcast from Global's Leeds studios from 4–7 pm on weekdays,[6] presented by Adam O'Neill and Joanne 'JoJo' Kelly.

## News[edit]

Global's Newsroom broadcasts hourly local news updates from 5 am–6 pm on weekdays and 6 am–12 pm at weekends.

The Leeds newsroom also produces bulletins for Communicorp-owned Heart Yorkshire along with other broadcast centres.[7]

## Former notable presenters[edit]

* Bam Bam
* Sacha Brooks
* Rich Clarke
* David Dunne (Hed Kandi & Nu Cool)
* Andi Durrant
* Riley & Durrant
* Boy George
* Stephanie Hirst
* Dave Kelly

* Nemone
* Adil Ray
* Adele Roberts
* Graeme Smith
* Steve Sutherland
* Margherita Taylor
* Tiësto
* Jez Willis

|

## References[edit]

1. ^ RAJAR
2. ^ "LBC News replaces Galaxy on digital TV". The Airwaves. 15 November 2010. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011.
3. ^ Global Radio takes Capital national, Brand Republic, 13 September 2010
4. ^ Simon Hirst leaves Capital Yorkshire Archived 23 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine Radio Today, 20 June 2014
5. ^ Roman Kemp, Vick Hope and Sonny Jay to go national on Capital, RadioToday, 11 March 2019
6. ^ Capital FM – Yorkshire public file
7. ^ Capital FM – Yorkshire public file

## External links[edit]

* Official website
* History of local radio in Yorkshire.
* Emley Moor transmitter.
* High Hunsley transmitter.

* v
* t
* e

Capital

National stations|

* Capital UK
* Capital Dance
* Capital Xtra
* Capital Xtra Reloaded
* Capital Chill

Regional stations|

* Cymru
* Liverpool
* London
* Manchester and Lancashire
* Mid-Counties
* Midlands
* North East
* North West and Wales
* Scotland
* South
* South Wales
* Yorkshire

Related topics|

* Capital Breakfast
* Capital TV
* Communicorp
* Galaxy
* Galaxy Digital
* Global
* List of Global Group stations
* The Hit Music Network
* The One Network
* Timeline of Capital Radio

* v
* t
* e

Radio stations in West Yorkshire, England

AM stations|

| LW|

* BBC Radio 4 198

|

MW|

* BBC Radio 5 Live 909, 693
* Talksport 1089, 1053

FM stations|

* BBC Radio 2 89.3
* BBC Radio 3 91.5
* BBC Radio Leeds 92.4, 95.3, 102.7, 103.9
* BBC Radio 4 93.7
* Greatest Hits Radio 96.3, 106.8
* Phoenix Radio 96.7
* Hits Radio West Yorkshire 97.5, 102.5
* LDC Radio 97.8
* BBC Radio 1 98.9
* Classic FM 101.1
* Branch FM 101.8
* Sunrise Radio 103.2
* Drystone Radio 103.5
* Capital Yorkshire 105.1, 105.6
* Heart Yorkshire 106.2
* BCB 106.6
* Fever FM 107.3
* Tempo FM 107.4
* Radio Sangam 107.9, 94.7

DAB|

| Bauer Bradford & Huddersfield|

* Absolute Classic Rock
* Absolute Radio Country
* BBC Radio Leeds
* Capital Yorkshire
* Greatest Hits Radio
* Heart Yorkshire
* Hits Radio
* Hits Radio Pride
* Kerrang! Radio
* Magic Chilled
* Magic at the Musicals
* Magic Soul
* Hits Radio West Yorkshire

|

Bauer Leeds|

* Absolute Classic Rock
* Absolute Radio Country
* BBC Radio Leeds
* Capital Yorkshire
* Greatest Hits Radio
* Heart Yorkshire
* Hits Radio
* Magic Chilled
* Magic at the Musicals
* Magic Soul
* Hits Radio West Yorkshire
* Smooth Radio

Bradford small-scale|

* Akash Radio
* Cosoro Radio
* Drystone Radio
* Fever FM
* Gorgeous Radio
* Great Yorkshire Radio
* LDC Radio
* Marefa Radio
* Panjab Radio
* Radio Apni Awaz
* Sab Rang Radio
* Sunrise Gold
* Sunrise Radio
* Voice of Islam

Leeds small-scale|

* Akash Radio
* Dance Asia Radio
* Fever FM
* Fresh Leeds
* Gaydio
* Juice Radio
* LDC Radio
* Marefa Radio
* Mighty Leeds
* Rangoli Radio
* Sunrise Gold
* Sunrise Radio
* Voice of Islam

Former|

* Pulse 2
* Radio Jcom
* Stray FM

See also
List of radio stations in the United Kingdom

* v
* t
* e

Radio stations in South Yorkshire, England

AM stations (MW)|

* BBC Radio 5 Live 909
* Talksport 1089

FM stations|

* BBC Radio Sheffield 88.6, 104.1
* BBC Radio 2 89.3, 89.9
* BBC Radio 3 91.5, 92.1
* Sheffield Live! 93.2
* BBC Radio 4 93.7, 94.3
* Penistone FM 95.7
* Greatest Hits Radio 96.1, 97.1, 102.0, 107.1
* Link FM 96.7
* Hits Radio South Yorkshire 97.4, 102.9, 103.4
* BBC Radio 1 98.9, 99.5
* Classic FM 101.1, 101.7
* Redroad FM 102.4
* Sine FM 102.6
* Capital Yorkshire 105.1, 105.6
* Heart Yorkshire 106.2, 107.7

DAB|

| Bauer Sheffield|

* Absolute Classic Rock
* Absolute Radio Country
* BBC Radio Sheffield
* Capital Yorkshire
* Greatest Hits Radio
* Heart Yorkshire
* Hits Radio
* Hits Radio Pride
* Magic Chilled
* Magic Soul
* Smooth Radio

|

Sheffield & Rotherham small-scale|

* 45 Radio
* Angel Radio
* Cosoro Radio
* Essentials
* Fever FM
* Gaydio
* Link FM
* Radio Sangam
* Rotherham Radio
* Rother Radio
* Sheffield Live

Former|

* Burngreave Community Radio (103.1)
* Iman FM (103.1)

See also
List of radio stations in the United Kingdom

53°47′59″N 1°33′23″W﻿ / ﻿53.799814°N 1.556454°W﻿ / 53.799814; -1.556454
*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template