95.8 Capital FM is a popular London local radio station owned by the Global Radio group.
This local radio station for London, which was based on the first two floors of the Euston Tower, was originally named Capital Radio, and was launched by then-chairman Richard Attenborough at 5:00 AM on Tuesday, 16 October 1973. Capital went on air just over a week after news station LBC, making it the second legal local commercial radio station in the UK. Th...
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95.8 Capital FM is a popular London local radio station owned by the Global Radio group.
This local radio station for London, which was based on the first two floors of the Euston Tower, was originally named Capital Radio, and was launched by then-chairman Richard Attenborough at 5:00 AM on Tuesday, 16 October 1973. Capital went on air just over a week after news station LBC, making it the second legal local commercial radio station in the UK. The first song to be played on Capital was "Bridge over Troubled Water", by Simon & Garfunkel.
Broadcasting on FM and medium wave, it has used 95.8 MHz since its inception, while the medium wave frequency was originally 539 metres (557kHz). This happened to be the same frequency that the Dutch pirate radio station Radio Veronica was using, and the interference between the two meant that neither station could be heard clearly in parts of southern England or Belgium.
In 1975, Capital's medium wave frequency moved to 194 metres (1548 kHz) after...
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