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Absolute Radio has teamed up with music streaming service Spotify to launch a campaign looking for the nation’s ‘Song of the Decade’.

Global Radio’s chief operating officer Don Thomson is leaving the company at the end of the month without a job to go to.

The Digital Radio Development Bureau is to be dismantled and incorporated into a newly created body that has been set up to meet the government’s 2015 digital radio switchover target as outlined in Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report.

UTV Media, owner of talkSPORT and the Northern Ireland ITV franchise, saw pre-tax profits fall 30% to £7.8 million in the first half of the year.

The Local Radio Company is to delist from the London Stock Exchange at the end of September to save money while it continues to restructure the business.

US local and national radio ad revenue sank 25% in the second quarter of 2009, to $3.4 billion, according to the Radio Advertising Bureau.

James Cridland is to stand down from his role at the BBC’s Future Media and Technology’s Audio and Music unit on September 2.

Specialist radio company UBC Media has bought radio and internet marketing business Radio Lynx for £2.4 million.

Premier Radio is set to launch a national version of its Christian DAB station on September 21.

Tickets for MediaTel Group’s ‘Future of Radio’ seminar are available at a credit-crunch busting £99 for those who book by next Friday (28th August).