The Music Factory
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TMF (The Music Factory) is a pop music television channel that operates in the Netherlands (TMF Nederland), Belgium (TMF Vlaanderen) the United Kingdom (TMF UK) and Australia (TMF Australia). The brand is owned by MTV Networks International (part of the Viacom conglomerate). Showing only pop videos and locally produced live programming in the Netherlands, Belgium and Australia, it shows some of MTV's and VH1's programmes like Cribs and Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica in the UK.
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[edit] TMF Nederland
TMF Nederland was launched on May 1, 1995 as the Netherlands' only local pop station. It was founded by Lex Harding and the Arcade company. Although Dutch viewers could receive MTV Europe, many felt that the Netherlands should have its own national music television channel. The station gradually began to get better viewer figures than MTV, so in 2002, MTV bought shares in TMF. In 1996, TMF started the TMF Awards in the Netherlands. It is headquartered in Bussum.
The channel is very well known in the Netherlands and throughout some of Europe for its emphasis on dance music mixes. It is, however, perhaps infamous for the former over-abundance of "text-in" shows (displaying large panels in the bottom third of the screen filled with text messages that obscure the main image). In 2005, three new channels began broadcasting in the Netherlands under the TMF brand (all owned by MTV Networks Europe):
[edit] TMF Party
Plays French and Dutch trance and house music.
[edit] TMF NL
Plays Dutch Pop music.
[edit] TMF Pure
Plays mostly soul and R&B music.
[edit] TMF Radio
Launched on December 27, 2006.
[edit] TMF Australia
[edit] TMF Vlaanderen (Belgium)
TMF Vlaanderen (TMF Belgium) was the first international extension of the TMF brand. It broadcasts entirely in the Dutch language, so it is only available in the Flanders (Vlaanderen) region of Belgium. Founded in 1998, its headquarters are in Mechelen.
[edit] TMF UK
TMF UK started in 2002 as a counter against Emap's The Hits request music channel on Freeview (Digital Terrestrial Television). It broadcasts on channel 21. It also broadcasts on BSkyB's Sky (Digital Satellite Television) and Virgin Media (Digital Cable Television). The channel, alongside its music output, shows reruns of successful MTV and VH1 shows such as Cribs, Wannabe with Chanelle, Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica and The Fabulous Life Of. There is also a strand of Noggin in the morning for pre-school children (now replaced as Nick Jr On TMF).
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