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MEDIA: FLAUNT, THE AMP, SCUZZ - AN EXPERT'S VIEW. You don't need to be a teenager to enjoy Sky's three new music channels, Graeme Canter says.

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With 20 music channels already available for the digital viewer, it was perhaps a bold move by Sky to launch three new music channels in April.

Especially with the failure of Rapture still fresh in the memory, I was interested to see if Dawn Airey's first major projects, called Flaunt, Scuzz and The Amp, could offer anything other than the tried-and-tested formula of 'video juke box'.

Aimed at girls aged 13 to 16, Flaunt invites viewers to 'watch the choons', according to the bold colourful letters on the screen. Featuring artists such as Justin Timberlake and Ja Rule, Flaunt offers gossip and tips on everything from style to horoscopes.

Pressing the red button on the remote control activates these. Once in the interactive section, you can get news on your much-loved band, enter a competition, or, my personal favourite, have a counsel with an acid-tongued agony aunt called 'Agony Sista'.

Even though Scuzz targets teenage boys aged 15 to 19, I found this to be my favourite channel of the three. Billed as 'the natural viewing home for disruptive rock fans', I think it may eventually appeal to a wider audience. Not least as the majority of the videos I saw were so raunchy you would not see them on CD-UK. Bands such as Foo Fighters and Limp Bizkit bang out the tracks, but it's not until after you press the red button that you really get to the fun stuff. There is a game in this section called 'Scuzz Boarding', which was really cool. I'm especially looking forward to the forthcoming animated feature on Scuzz entitled Cuddly Snuff, which promises to give us '101 ways to destroy your teddy bear in the most inhumane ways possible'.

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