TMF Awards
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The TMF Awards are an annual television awards show broadcast live on TMF (The Music Factory).
The first TMF Awards were held in 1995, as a brand extension to the recently launched local Dutch music channel TMF. The show was very small and held in the company cafeteria. However throughout the years the event gradually moved to bigger venues, and for some time now, it is now being held in Sports Ahoy', Rotterdam. A venue which can seat 10,000 people.
Since 1998 (with the arrival of the TMF Belgium channel, broadcasting in Dutch, purely for the Flemish part of the country) a second TMF Awards show was launched. It started out in a local Antwerp Disco called 'Zillion' (which no longer exists, for a crowd of 2000 people), and gradually moved to Flanders Expo in Gent (for a crowd of 8000 people). The past couple of years the Belgian edition has surpassed the Dutch edition after it moved to the Sportpaleis Merksem in Antwerp (for a crowd of 17 000 people).
Both the Dutch TMF Awards as the Belgian TMF Awards are shown live in Belgium (Flanders) and the Netherlands. About a week later, they are shown on TMF UK. The Dutch show usually takes place in April; The Belgian show in October. This year, 2006, both shows are in October. The Dutch TMF Awards were on the 13th, the Belgium TMF Awards on 14 October.
In both countries these award shows are widely regarded as the biggest popular music awards of the country. In the UK however, they are hardly noticed.
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