Capital Cymru
Capital North West and Wales | |
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Transmitter coordinates | 53°01′12″N 4°16′24″W / 53.0199°N 4.2732°W |
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Webcast | Global Player |
Website | www |
Capital Cymru is a local Welsh-language radio station owned and operated by Global. 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 network and earlier the Marcher Radio Group.[1] It switched to the Capital network on 6 May 2014. Heart North and Mid Wales now covers the region as part of the Heart network.
Overview
Capital Cymru's programmes are almost entirely in
Although the official transmission area takes in most of the Isle of Anglesey and a large part of Gwynedd (as far south as
History
When it launched in December 1998 as Champion 103, it was the first commercial radio station to serve
Originally owned and operated by the
In March 2009, following Global Radio's takeover of GCap Media, Champion was rebranded as Heart Cymru as part of a rollout of the Heart network across 29 local radio stations owned by Global. By this point, local programming had been reduced to ten hours on weekdays and seven hours at weekends.
In July 2010, Global closed the Bangor studios and moved Heart Cymru's operations to the former Marcher headquarters in
On 6 February 2014, Global announced that Heart Cymru would be rebranded as Capital, with the North Wales licence of Real Radio Wales being sold to
Capital Cymru was launched on 6 May 2014. All local output, including extended Welsh language shows, news bulletins and network opt-outs were retained.[4]
On 23 May 2019, Capital Cymru dropped all of Capital's networked programming and introduced a full schedule of local output, including an additional Welsh-language daytime show.[5] The station retains both the Capital branding and much of the network's Contemporary hit radio music playlist.
Programming
The majority of Capital Cymru's output is produced and broadcast from Global's Wrexham studios - including presenter-led programming from 6 am-7 pm on weekdays, 9 am-12 pm on Saturdays and 9 am-4 pm on Sundays
The station's local presenters in 2019 were Alistair James (Capital Breakfast, Saturday mornings), Lois Cernyw (covering for Cerian Griffith) (weekday daytime), Kev Bach (weekday afternoon), Dafydd Griffith (Sunday mornings) and Owain Llyr (Sunday afternoons).[5]
News
Capital Cymru broadcasts hourly localised news updates from 6 am-7 pm on weekdays and 6 am-12 pm at weekends. On weekdays, bulletins during local programming are broadcast in Welsh.
Global's newsrooms in Wrexham and Cardiff Bay produce the bulletins, alongside those for
See also
References
- ^ "Nine more Hearts makes 33". Radio Today. 28 April 2009.
Nine more radio stations will be re-branded as Heart on June 22nd, including the former Marcher Group stations in North Wales and North West England.
- Trinity Mirror. 29 July 2010.
Heart has gone out of Bangor after the popular radio station decided to close its doors and move to Wrexham. It will shift North Wales operations from its Parc Menai base to the east of the region.
- ^ Martin, Roy (6 February 2014). "Communicorp buys 8 Global stations". Radio Today. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
Heart will become region-wide in the North West when the former Marcher stations switch to Capital and Heart appears on the Real Radio North Wales and North West frequencies.
- ^ "Global confirms Heart expansion details". Radio Today. 14 April 2014.
- ^ a b c "schedule". capitalfm.com. 22 May 2019.
Capital Cymru
- Global Radio.