TMF Nederland

TMF (abbreviation of The Music Factory) was a 24-hour music channel operated by Viacom International Media Networks in the Netherlands. The channel ceased operating on September 1, 2011. The channels operations were based in Amsterdam. The channel was previously known as TMF6 and TMF9 respectively.

History

TMF was launched on May 1, 1995 by Lex Harding. It was the first Dutch music station competing against MTV Europe within the region. The nascent channel featured Sylvana Simons, Bridget Maasland, Isabelle Brinkman, Fabienne de Vries, Ruud de Wild, Michael Pilarczyk, Wessel van Diepen and Erik de Zwart as its veejays. During the years the VJ line-up changed to include Tooske Breugem, Daphne Bunskoek and Mental Theo. The last VJs on the channel included: Miljuschka Witzenhausen and Nikkie Plessen.

Despite the launch of a local MTV Nederland channel within in the region in 2000. TMF continued to surpass MTV in audience ratings. To counteract this competition in 2002, MTV Networks Europe purchased TMF's operations in the Netherlands and Belgium.^[2] TMF shifted it attention towards more interactive programmimg, whilst some music programming from TMF was moved to MTV Nederland such as Mental Theo on the Road and Top 40 before moving back to TMF.

With the expansion of digital television TMF launched further brands which included TMF Dance (Techno, Trance and House music), TMF NL (Dutch music) and TMF Pure (R'n'B, Hip-Hop and urban). TMF Live also launched focusing on live music.

Closure of TMF

On November 4, 2010 Viacom International Media Networks announced from January 1, 2011 TMF would only broadcast between 06:00 until 15:00 daily.^[3] On April 4, TMF was replaced by Kindernet and TMF as brand officially ceased on September 1, 2011 when TMF.nl stopped broadcasting the channel online. VJ's from TMF were transferred to MTV Nederland. TMF's digital channels also ceased broadcasting.

List of TMF's videojockeys

• Bridget Maasland (1995–2000)
• Erik de Zwart (1995–2002)
• Fabienne de Vries (1995–2000)
• Isabelle Brinkman (1995–1998)
• Michael Pilarczyk (1995–1996)
• Ruud de Wild (1995–1998)
• Sylvana Simons (1995–1999)
• Wessel van Diepen (1995–1998)
• Jeroen Post (1996–2005)
• Tooske Breugem (1998–2002)
• Daphne Bunskoek (1998–2002)
• Jeroen Nieuwenhuizen (1998–2002, 2003–2007)
• Mental Theo (1999–2002, 2003–2005)
• Sonja Silva (1999–2001)
• Renee Vervoorn (2000–2003)
• Johnny de Mol (2001–2002)
• Seth Kamphuijs (2001–2002)
• Kristina Bozilovic (2001–2002)
• Sylvie Meis (2003–2004)
• Renate Verbaan (2004–2006)
• Miljuschka Witzenhausen (2005–2007)
• Valerio Zeno (2005–2008)
• Nikkie Plessen (2006–2008)
• Damien Hope (2007–2008)
• Soumia Abalhaja (2007–2008)
• Saar Koningsberger (2007–2010)
• Sascha Visser (2008–2010)
• Amir Charles (2008–2011) (now on MTV)
• Veronica van Hoogdalem (2008–2011)
• Willem "Willy" de Bruin (2009–2011) (now on MTV)
• Tess Milne (2010–2011) (now on MTV)

References

External links

• TMF Nederland (Dutch) directs viewers to MTV.NL