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.

Ex-Radio Clyde legend ‘Tiger’ Tim Stevens is one of the directors behind GO – Glasgow’s Own – Radio 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 ex- 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: “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 Global spokeswoman said the decision to hand back the licence had nothing to do with Moyles taking over the show.