The live concert is a constant in the catalogue of any music specialist, but how does it fare if it~s not a big-name act that can shape a channel~s brand? Chris Johnson takes a front row seat.

NATPE NEWS – UK distributor Minotaur International is shopping a pair of Scottish Media Group TV titles at Natpe this week, namely Club Reps and Cannibals & Crampons.

In the UK, the BBC has been given the go-ahead by the DCMS to launch a commercially operated channel creation and management services venture, entitled BBC Broadcast Ltd.

TechTV chairman and ceo Larry Wangberg has celebrated the cable network hitting the 30m subscriber milestone by stepping down.

Fox Kids Europe has inked a three-year deal with the UK~s biggest digital cable platform NTL to extend carriage of Fox Kids UK.

The UK~s Channel 4 has come onboard a new doc about land mines from filmmaker Dennis O~Rouke, being produced in association with ABC (Australia) and funded by the Australian Film Finance Corporation.

MTV Asia has inked a joint venture deal with Thai music programming specialist Ten Music Television (TMT) to launch MTV Thailand.

NATPE NEWS - UK producer-distributor TWI has earned back its Vegas expenses after shopping its cooking series Planet Food to a host of international broadcasters, including Discovery and Asia Television.

NATPE NEWS - The producer of Pokemon, 4Kids Entertainment has won the race to lease US network Fox~s Saturday morning kids~ block, after a four-year deal with extension options.

Scholastic Entertainment, the TV production arm of children~s publisher Scholastic, is developing an animated series based on the kids~ property I Spy for US cable network HBO Family.