- Station name Station name
- CAPITAL UK: The UK's No.1 Hit Music Station - Londres, Inglaterra
- Description Description
- As of December 2025, the stations serve a combined weekly audience of 6.8 million listeners and target a core audience in the 15–34 age group; 57% of all listeners are within this demographic.
- Launch date Launch date
- 2011-01-03
- Owner Owner
- Global
- Contact Contact
- capitalfm.com
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CAPITAL UK: The UK's No.1 Hit Music Station - Londres, Inglaterra
Capital is a network of twelve independent contemporary hit radio stations in the United Kingdom, broadcasting a mix of local and networked programming.
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| Language Language | English |
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| Stream status Stream status | Ok |
| Homepage Homepage | capitalfm.com |
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Global
First air date
2011-01-03
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| Station ID | 124 |
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| Region | United Kingdom, London |
| Branding | The UK's No.1 Hit Music Station |
| Owner | Global |
| Broadcast area | United Kingdom International (via Online) |
| Launched | 2011-01-03 |
| Website | capitalfm.com |
| Listen | capitalfm.com |
| Contact | capitalfm.com |
| Schedule | capitalfm.com |
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| HTTP status | 200 |
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| Content-Type | audio/mpeg |
| Latency | 129 ms |
| Last check | 23 hours ago |
| Stream host | media-ssl.musicradio.com |
| Final host | media-ssl.musicradio.com |
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About station About CAPITAL UK: The UK's No.1 Hit Music Station - Londres, Inglaterra
Capital is a network of twelve independent contemporary hit radio stations in the United Kingdom, broadcasting a mix of local and networked programming. Ten of the stations are owned and operated by Global, while the other two are owned and operated under separate franchise agreements.
As of December 2025, the stations serve a combined weekly audience of 6.8 million listeners and target a core audience in the 15–34 age group; 57% of all listeners are within this demographic. The national version of the network is widely available on Global Player, Freeview, Sky, Freesat, Virgin Media and Digital One DAB. Capital is the fifth most-popular radio network in the UK by listeners, and the second largest of the commercial stations after Heart. Capital has a playlist which is updated weekly, and up until around February 2022, featured songs from the last one or two years. Since 2022, Capital has started playing older songs from the 2010s, 2000s, and late 1990s, with most of them played on their sister station Capital Anthems; although unlike fellow hit music station BBC Radio 1, it doesn't usually play any rock or alternative music (Capital's sister network Radio X was the only station that fully plays alternative and indie rock) while other genres such as drill and occasional drum and bass were played on Capital Xtra and Capital Dance respectively.
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