MTV relaunch set for next year

For the youngsters appearing on Mini-Studio, an entertainment TV show being broadcast in the late afternoon, it was their chance for a few minutes of fame. But the children’s bid for stardom on the MTV program came to an abrupt halt. Security forces burst into the company’s premises in the RML building in Sassine, Achrafieh, and ordered a technician to pull the plug on the young people’s ambitions. The staff was evicted, leaving even personal belongings behind, and the five floors belonging to the station were sealed. That was on September 4, 2002, a couple of months before MTV’s 11th anniversary. Since Parliament lifted the broadcasting ban in the middle of last month, the enfant terrible of television is set for a multi-million dollar comeback. MTV plans to reappear on the airwaves in the first few months of 2006 although a precise date has not yet been set. The 2002