THE boss of a new radio station launching in Glasgow is unhappy about the decision of a rival to hand back the licence for a Paisley station.

Recently it was announced former Radio Clyde legend "Tiger" Tim Stevens is one of the directors behind GO - Glasgow's Own - Radio which is due to start broadcasting on October 5.

Programme director Kevin Cameron, a former Clyde 1 presenter, has now hit out at a decision by Global which is home to Heart, Capital and Classic FM which have 23million listeners each week.

It has opted to hand back the licence of Indie and rock music station XFM Scotland which started life as Q96 in 1992.

It is the local radio licence for Paisley but its signal on 96.3FM also covers most of Glasgow and surrounding area.

On September 7, it was announced former Radio 1 breakfast show presenter Chris Moyles will return to radio for the first time since September 2012 on the newly re-branded Radio X which replaced XFM.

Mr Cameron said of Global's decision to return the Scottish licence: "This move by Global seems to have come about because Global applied to Ofcom to allow XFM to have solely networked programming from London and Manchester and no locally originated programme in Glasgow at all.

"For once, Ofcom didn't acquiesce to Global's demand and insisted local programming must still be broadcast, especially at breakfast.

"The industry speculation was that Chris Moyles was joining XFM to broadcast the breakfast show and because it would not be broadcast in Scotland, the senior management at Global have basically thrown a hissy fit and decided to close down the XFM operation in Scotland.

"We would have been more than willing to talk to Global about purchasing the FM licence so that a local commercial radio service could be run for the people of Paisley and Glasgow but their arbitrary decision to return the licence and to close a 23-year-old station with the loss of local jobs speaks volumes about their commitment to Scotland."

A spokeswoman for Global insisted the decision to hand back the licence had nothing to do with Chris Moyles taking over the breakfast show.

She said: "Global is a new national radio brand and regulatory policy in Scotland means we cannot network programmes north of the border so what we are able to do in Manchester, we can't do in Scotland."