| City of license | Nottingham |
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| Broadcast area | East Midlands |
| Branding | 96-106 Capital |
| Slogan | East Midlands' No.1 Hit Music Station |
| Frequency | RDS: CAPITAL 102.8 (Derby) 105.4 (Leicester) 96.2 (Nottingham) 96.5 (Mansfield) MHz,[1] DAB |
| First air date | 3 January 2011 |
| Format | Contemporary Hit Radio, News, Entertainment, Speech, Showbiz |
| Audience share | 10.90% (March 2011, [2]) |
| Owner | Global Radio |
| Sister stations | Capital Birmingham Capital London Capital Manchester Capital North East Capital Scotland Capital South Coast Capital South Wales Capital Yorkshire |
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Capital East Midlands is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to the East Midlands. The station, owned and operated by Global Radio, forms part of the nine-station Capital radio network. It begun broadcasting on 3 January 2011 following the merger of Trent FM, Leicester Sound and Ram FM.[3]
There are three advertising sub-regions: Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottingham, which air localised commercials.
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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. 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.
On 13 September 2010, Global Radio announced it would merge Trent FM, Leicester Sound and Ram FM to form a sole regional station as part of a merger between its Hit Music and Galaxy network stations to form the nine-station Capital radio network.[4]
The new station is broadcast from Maid Marian Way, Nottingham, leading to the closure of studios in Leicester and advertising offices in Derby. Local programming airs at breakfast and drivetime on weekdays and on weekend mornings. The majority of networked output is broadcast from the Capital London studios with specialist programming airing at weekends from Glasgow and Birmingham.[5][6]
It was announced Emma Caldwell and Andy Twigge would present Capital Breakfast; Peter Allen and Dean Weatherbed on weekday drivetime,[7][8] with Steffan LaTouche presenting weekend mornings.
A listener made a complaint against Capital East Midlands, for playing the non-radio version of Do It Like a Dude by Jessie J during a James Barr broadcast, Global Radio put this down to presenter error and that the song was cut after 30 seconds.[9]
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