Wikipedia Information: In mid 1996, Flextech were in talks with Fox and News Corp to sell of a 50% stake in The Children's Channel; unfortunately, extremely lengthy negotiations made it impossible to secure a deal. Flextech tried to undertake negotiations to secure a different form of investment in The Children's Channel, but decided to refocus on the teen and youth markets instead. In turn, in February 1997, all the programmes targeting older children which The Children's Channel was by then airing were split off into Trouble with TCC reverted to the original name of The Children's Channel and continuing to screen programmes for younger children, running side by side with Trouble in 1997, before eventually closing down British and Irish operations both unexpectedly and silently in April 1998 at 5pm after 14 years for unknown reasons. Upon the closure of TCC UK, Cable & Wireless carried the TCC Nordic feed for a few months due to the company's anger at the closure of TCC at such short notice, while Trouble started targeting teenagers and young adults, thus fully replacing The Children's Channel after it closed down. However, due to a pre-agreed contract signed some years before to air The Children's Channel in Scandinavia until October 2000, Flextech created an advertisement-free version of TCC known as TCC Nordic to fulfil this requirement to air until October 2000 as arranged before finally ceasing transmission. As this service was only fulfilling a contractual requirement, it was totally automated and showed exactly the same four weeks of programming on a constant loop. The website stayed running until late 2005.
