Originally Posted by RadioFreak:
“I have hear the new Coldplay on Capital a couple of times over the last couple of days.”
That's good then, I thought they woud play it. What I think the situation is that when Capital play pre-release tracks, they only play ones that they think are going to get in the charts. That decision is based largely on how popular that genre (or better still artist) has been recently. Which is why if an R&B song comes out, they usually play it pre release where as if a rock song comes out, they wait to see if it becomes a hit before they play it (as the Coldplay song has proven). Maybe if Coldplay released another single, Capital may well play it pre release on the basis that Every Teardrop.... was a big hit so their next song probably will.
Radio 1 are a bit less fussy with pre-release playlisting, to the point where it makes the more mainstream listeners think "When are they going to learn that rock music isn't popular at the moment???"
Originally Posted by simon243:
“Global's only interest outside London is the ad revenue their local opt-outs from the Heart and Capital bring in.
Otherwise, it's all about London - as will become quickly apparent if and when Ofcom let them network everything.”
This and all the above posts have made me realise more than ever that Capital, although claiming to be a semi-national station, is infact just a local London station that is relayed in other parts of the UK.
They didn't even bother changing the name. There is only 1 capital of the UK and that's London. Birmingham, Manchester and Yorkshire are not capital cities, why have a station called Capital there? They could have changed the name of 95.8 so that they could still take the Capital network semi-national but give it a name that didn't mean it was only in London. Having said that, there's no reason why they couldn't have called 95.8 'Galaxy' but still kept the same format, and rolled out the Capital playlist/format to the ex-Galaxies.
Heart act like what they are - a semi-national network and local hours are actually quite focussed on the area. They don't act like an East Midlands station that's being relayed (except for the name Heart which means the heart of England). So why shouldn't Capital do the same?