| City of license | Leeds |
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| Broadcast area | Yorkshire |
| Branding | 105 Capital |
| Slogan | Yorkshire's No.1 Hit Music Station |
| Frequency | 105.1 (South West Yorkshire) 105.6 (Bradford and Sheffield) 105.8 (North Humberside) MHz,[1] DAB, Online RDS* CAPITAL |
| First air date | 14 February 1997 |
| Format | Contemporary hit radio |
| Owner | Global Radio |
| Sister stations | Capital Birmingham Capital East Midlands Capital London Capital Manchester Capital North East Capital Scotland Capital South Coast Capital South Wales |
| Website | East Yorkshire South West Yorkshire |
Capital Yorkshire is an Independent Local Radio station owned by Global Radio as part of the nine-station Capital radio network which specialises in mainstream music. It is based at Josephs Well near Park Lane in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
The licence held makes Capital Yorkshire the largest regional British radio station[2] outside of London.
There are two advertising sub-regions, known as for East Yorkshire and South & West Yorkshire, which air localised commercials.
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Capital Yorkshire broadcasts on 105.8 MHz FM at a power of 9.6 kW from High Hunsley, which covers East Yorkshire and North 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.
Although only supposed to cover Yorkshire, Capital FM Yorkshire covers a much larger area and can be heard as far as Derbyshire, South Lincolnshire and even Manchester.
DAB broadcasts are 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.
Galaxy Yorkshire also broadcast in various other areas on DAB as Galaxy Digital, except with the UK's ID to replace the Yorkshire one and the regional Yorkshire adverts are replaced UK-wide adverts. In some cases, a cut down song will be played to fill in for all or part of the commercial break. This output was also broadcast on Sky and Virgin Media until 15 November 2010 when it was replaced with LBC News 1152.[3] Galaxy was removed from the London DAB multiplex on 16 November 2010.
The station started life as Kiss 105, but became Galaxy 105 after a take over by the Chrysalis Group, then in 2006 it became simply Galaxy Yorkshire.
The stations strapline was altered to "passion for music, passion for life" to reflect its new target demographic which has been changed from 15-29 to 15-34 . 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.
The station was rebranded as 105 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.[4] Breakfast presenter Simon Hirst and drivetime presenter Adam O'Neill retained their jobs at the relaunched station.[5]
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