diff --git a/playout/libretime_liquidsoap/liquidsoap_prepare_terminate.py b/playout/libretime_liquidsoap/liquidsoap_prepare_terminate.py
deleted file mode 100644
index de58ac3dc..000000000
--- a/playout/libretime_liquidsoap/liquidsoap_prepare_terminate.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-import sys
-import telnetlib
-
-from configobj import ConfigObj
-
-try:
-    config = ConfigObj("/etc/airtime/airtime.conf")
-    LS_HOST = config["pypo"]["ls_host"]
-    LS_PORT = config["pypo"]["ls_port"]
-
-    tn = telnetlib.Telnet(LS_HOST, LS_PORT)
-    tn.write("master_harbor.stop\n")
-    tn.write("live_dj_harbor.stop\n")
-    tn.write("exit\n")
-    tn.read_all()
-
-except Exception as e:
-    print(f"Error loading config file: {e}")
-    sys.exit()
diff --git a/playout/requirements.txt b/playout/requirements.txt
index dbfa1229c..dc7c4fae9 100644
--- a/playout/requirements.txt
+++ b/playout/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # This file is auto-generated by tools/extract-requirements.sh.
 # Please do not edit this file, edit the setup.py file!
 amqplib
-configobj
 defusedxml
 kombu
 mutagen
diff --git a/playout/setup.py b/playout/setup.py
index 54a4017a1..d1ba588cc 100644
--- a/playout/setup.py
+++ b/playout/setup.py
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ setup(
     python_requires=">=3.6",
     install_requires=[
         "amqplib",
-        "configobj",
         "defusedxml",
         "kombu",
         "mutagen",