[2] The national version of the network is widely available on Global Player, Freeview, Sky, Freesat, Virgin Media and Digital One DAB.

Capital Radio and GWR Group's merger in 2005 to form GCap Media resulted in the stations being amalgamated into the One Network.

This continued until June 2009 when most of the stations, now in the ownership of Global Radio — who had purchased GCap in 2008 — were rebranded as part of The Heart Network.

In 1994 the station won the first regional FM licence and moved frequency to 101.0 MHz, rebranded as Galaxy 101 and expanded coverage to include South Wales.

[14] Capital Cymru retained its own local breakfast and weekend shows due to separate Welsh-language obligations.

[15] In May 2019, the station dropped all networked output and introduced a full schedule of local programming, including additional Welsh-language shows.

[14] In September 2019, Quidem, the owners of six local radio stations in the English Midlands, announced it had entered a brand licensing agreement with Global, citing financial losses.

[17] Two months later, following Ofcom permission to change the stations' formats,[18] it was confirmed they would merge and join the Capital network on 2 December 2019.

In April 2023, it was announced Capital Scotland (owned by Communicorp) would reintroduce local breakfast, daytime and weekend programming from 2 May 2023, as part of a major expansion of Global's Scottish radio operations.

Capital stations based in Central Scotland and Birmingham produced and transmitted specialist output for the network on Saturday and Sunday overnights respectively.

The six-figure deal begun on 4 January 2011, with weekday drive-time shows branded as The Virgin Media Home Run across all nine stations for a six-month period.

[31] In September 2019, Capital Xtra received its own national sister station when Capital Xtra Reloaded, formerly an online stream through Global Player, was relaunched as a broadcast radio station, transmitting on Digital One in the DAB+ format and playing rhythmic hits from the recent past.

On 1 October 2020, Global launched a new dedicated electronic dance music station broadcast nationally via Digital One in DAB+ and online.

[33] A temporary pop-up station launched on SDL National and Global Player in June 2024, playing solely the music of Taylor Swift, to coincide with the UK leg of The Eras Tour.

[36] Capital TV broadcast on the Sky and Freesat platforms from July 2012, and on Freeview in the Manchester area from October 2012, and was also available online.

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