95.8 FM Capital Radio

I used to think Capital FM was the bees knees. The idea of a radio Station for London is a great one. Howver, over the past couple of years the selection of music has gone completely downhill. If you're into current pop-chart music only, then that's ok - Capital is probably fine. But as to playing anything a little more grown up, forget it. In fact, even the selection of chart music they choose to play is pretty limited and seem to pick out just a few favourites from the top 40 and repeat them over and over again. If you are lucky enough to get on their playlist then you could probably retire ... more

Want to hear interesting new music on the cutting edge? Postmodern presentation styles? Clever humour? Intelligent talk? You'd better tune elsewhere then. Capital, whose name is surely missing an 'r', is the most stagnant, dull, uninnovative station I have ever had the misfortune of enduring. Every morning for several hours, a bloke who really doesn't need the money sits in a studio reading from newspapers that the listeners are presumably too lazy to read themselves, being patronising and sexist to women insane enough to 'phone in, and playing what feels like the same four or five records on ... more

I remember sitting in the car on the school run in the morning, listening to Chris Tarrant having all kinds of fun in the morning, on Capital FM. After school, there was all kind of good music played, from all over the eighties and nineties, as well as current hits. Well, Tarrant's still there. Unfortunately, though, their music policies seem to have changed. Or maybe it is just the personal taste of the DJs... Last Autumnn, the station went through a phase of playing the Summer's Ibiza tunes. This is not a bad idea in itself: the Ibiza hits were very popular at the time. However, they should ... more

Capital FM Capital FM originally called Galaxy has modern written all over it! I have always been a fan of radio stations and I like a range of them, Capital has to be one of my favourites as it plays most of my style songs. Although every time I have turned it on it has been my style therefore it doesn't give a wide range of music styles. Reception is all round good and you can get a reception from all over the country! I don't like listening to a radio and an hour later the same song will repeat and so on for a while. I first experienced this when I was in the car on a 5 hour journey, I ... more

The problem with Capital Fm, is that it is desperately trying to keep up with other stations like Kiss fm, Radio 1 and various pirate stations. It has always had listeners of all ages, but now it is trying to gently nudge the older listeners away and make it a young, 'hip' station. I must stress, I myself am actually 16... and not impressed. For a start, many of the djs are old, this is not really giving off the young image, yet these are their best djs so they seem stuck with them. Capital has picked up on the latest music craze, 'garage' and plays it far too much, with whole programs on it ... more