The station, owned and operated by Global Radio, began broadcasting on Monday 3 January 2011 at 10:00am following the merger and rebrand of three stations in the East Midlands-Trent FM, Leicester Sound and Ram FM.
The station, owned and operated by Global Radio, forms part of the nine-station Capital FM network. It begun broadcasting on 3 January 2011 following the merger of Trent FM, Leicester Sound and Ram FM.