Itunes 10.5 radio streaming error

All of the sudden iTunes keeps giving me the following error:
"An error occured while contacting the radio tuning service. Check you internet connection, or try again later."
This just started today and I'm not even trying to listen to internet radio. Nothing is wrong with my internet connection. Any ideas how I can get rid of this as it keeps popping up every time I select "OK" and it's very annyoying to say the least.
I even removed Radio from my sidebar in Preferences...to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.

I am still getting this message. I use my iphone as a remote for my itunes and that also seems to trigger the message. I just updated my macbook to the newest itunes, as I had moved my other devices to the newest operating system and had been using my iphone as a remote for all music classes, then clunk, this message comes on and has to be deleted over and over. Make it stop!! We've never been able to access radio, as it's blocked by the Area 11. Any thoughts?

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