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Background and Format: Capital North East aims to provide news, features and music for Newcastle Upon Tyne and the north east of England, available on 105-106 FM, DAB Digital Radio and online. Advertising information can be found here. Programme Maker/Production Company: Global Radio Target Audience: Listeners aged 15-34. Circulation: Source: RAJAR for period ending March 2020. Top Tips For PRs: Their Instagram can be found here. Their YouTube can be found here. Local programming is restricted to weekday breakfast and drivetime shows, and weekend mid-mornings. There is no automated programming across the Capital Network. Capital North East's programming is locally produced and presented for 7 hours per day Monday-Friday, 8 hours across each weekend, totalling 43 hours of locally produced programming per week. The newsroom can be reached on +44 (0)191 444 2550 Awards: 2016 - Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards, Breakfast Show of the Year (over 2 Million TSA): Capital Breakfast with Bodg, Matt & Scarlett (bronze) 2014 - Radio Academy Awards, Best Entertainment Programme: Rob Howard (silver) Alerts: Gorkana Consumer Alert: Wednesday 15 September 2010 Global Radio has announced plans to launch the largest ‘hit music’ network in the UK with the creation of the new Capital Network. From early January 2011 the new network will reach an audience of more than 6.3m people broadcasting in major cities across the UK. The flagship Capital London will now be joined by another eight stations creating a national network with programming that is locally focused. Capital will replace the six Galaxy stations operating in Scotland, South Coast, Birmingham, and Manchester, Yorkshire and North East as well as the current Hit Music Network stations Red Dragon, Trent, RAM and Leicester Sound. From 2011 the network will be known as “95 - 106 Capital FM, The UK’s No.1 Hit Music Station”. In each area across the country breakfast and drivetime shows will remain locally produced and all programming will remain locally focused. Local news hours will be extended and local advertising will remain locally sold. The stations will be: Capital London Capital Scotland Capital North East Capital Yorkshire Capital Manchester Capital Birmingham Capital East Midlands Capital South Wales Capital South Coast Further details will be announced in due course.