Galaxy Yorkshire The station launched at 1.05 pm on 14 February 1997 as
Kiss 105, but became
Galaxy 105 later that year after a take over by the Chrysalis Group, then in 2006 it became simply
Galaxy Yorkshire. Launched as a dance music station, later years saw the playlist expanded to incorporate urban music genres. The stations strapline was altered to "
passion for music, passion for life" to reflect its new target demographic which had been changed from 15–29 to 15–34 . This was reinforced by the playing of more old school "Galaxy Anthems" – similar to
Bauer rival
Kiss's "Kisstory". In 2008 it was rebranded as a mainstream station along with all the other
Galaxy Stations with a new 'Love Music' strapline before becoming "Yorkshire's No. 1 Hit Music Station" in July 2010.
Capital Yorkshire The station was rebranded as Capital Yorkshire on 3 January 2011 as part of a merger of Global Radio's
Galaxy and
Hit Music networks to form the nine-station
Capital network. On 20 June 2014, long serving
Capital Breakfast presenter
Stephanie Hirst left Global Radio after 14 years. On 26 February 2019, Global confirmed the station's local breakfast and weekend shows would be replaced with networked programming from April 2019. The weekday Drivetime show was retained alongside news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising. On 21 February 2025, Capital Yorkshire broadcast its final programme following further Ofcom-sanctioned deregulation which removes the final requirements for locally produced programming in England. Consequently, JoJo, who co-presented what was the one remaining local programme, Adam & JoJo, leaves, having been at the station since it launched as Kiss 105 28 years earlier, in 1997. ==Programming==