[Neil Jones]

Makes me think that Trouble would've been doomed anyway when the VM channels were sold to Sky, as Sky wasn't allowed to operate a Kids/Teen channel under their agreement with Nickelodeon.

I think that was more they couldn't launch such a service.

If they inherited one such as Trouble had it still been operating at the time when they bought the Virgin channels, that's different, but it wasn't the same market/target audience as Nickelodeon, as Trouble was aimed at teenagers. Plus you could always flog it a short distance down the line (or not buy that entity).

Mind you that being said, when News Corp wanted to buy Fox Kids in 2001, Viacom said yeah, not going to happen, so Disney got it instead. They objected to Fox Kids launching at all apparently, but it didn't stop said launch so...