History
The station began broadcasting as Choice FM on 1 January 1995, after taking over the licence previously operated by Buzz FM. Four years later, Choice was renamed as Galaxy after it was bought out by Chrysalis. Galaxy was sold off to Global Radio in June 2007 in a £170 million deal which saw the group take over The Arrow, LBC and Heart.
The station was relaunched and re-branded as 102.2 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. Local programming now consists of weekday breakfast and drivetime, weekend mornings, and hourly daytime news bulletins. Galaxy presenter Sacha Brooks was redeployed as a presenter on the station and until July 2012 also presented a specialist slot which was networked each Sunday overnight.
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