Radio Capital

Radio Capital is an Italian radio station from Rome. The station is part of Gruppo Editoriale L' media companies espresso. The program consists of journalistic content and music. The studios are located in Rome at Via Cristoforo Colombo 90

History

First broadcast in May 1977 in Cormano under the name Controradio Cormano. Radio Capital was founded by Roberto Tracogna and renamed after one year on the air at Radio King 2000 and had its new headquarters in Cusano Milanino. In 1980 the name was changed, in accordance with the Capital Radio in London, Radio Capital, adding at the same time the claim " Dance all day" added that identifies the format than exclusively on dance music (at that time mainly Italian ) putting. The range has been improved by the removal of the transmitter from the old location at the palazzo di Sesto San Giovanni to Breda skyscraper in Milan. The following year, a company of the same name was founded. 1982 left the founder Roberto Tracogna society. Although the project has received positive response from the audience, but just could not put into commercial value in the advertising customers and therefore fell into a crisis.

In 1987, the station of the Deejay 's Gang by Claudio Cecchetto and Gallorini Valerio for Platform for experiments with programs was only in English. Headed by Ronny Hanson and David Lee Stone, who died in 2005 The alignment of the transmitter changed again to a format for disco oldies from the 1970s and received positive feedback from the public for the originality. At this time such a specialized transmitter were a rarity

With the enactment of Law 223/1990 (also known as Legge Mammí ) in 1990 requested Cecchetto admission as a local radio station for Lombardy, after he had already applied for a national license for the other under his supervision station Radio Deejay. After leaving Radio Deejay Cecchetto realized that the station would have to achieve through regional or better yet, national, spread to become the market leader and embarked on a search for a radio station that had already received a license to broadcast nationally, to then to take over. The mid-1990s he was with Radio Centro Toscana SpA (Editor of Gamma Radio Network ) is a group of channels that had already applied for local and national licenses, but decided the spread had for the time being but promote locally. The national license was bought by Capital Radio, without accepting the other transmitter or its brand name. Cecchetto realized that more funds would be needed than before in order to compete with the major publishing groups. Therefore, he sold to the Capital Radio Elemedia company of L' Espresso group, which had previously been acquired shares in Radio Deejay, and then start the new station with a significant improvement in the areas of transfer of technology and media presence.

Radio Capital is one of three national radio stations (along with m2o and Radio Deejay ) owned by the Elemedia company of L' Espresso group today. Vittorio Zucconi is responsible for the editorial line of the transmitter. End of April 2007 took over the Italian DJ Linus, former director of Radio Deejay, also the artistic director of Radio Capital and m2o by Carlo Mancini.

Previous names of Radio Capital

• Controradio Cormano (1977 )
• Radio King 2000 (1979)
• Radio Capital Milano (1979-1980)
• Capital Milano dance all day (1985 )
• Radio Capital solo Successi (1995 )
• Capital Radio Music Network, la radio di Claudio Cecchetto (1996 )