TMF Flanders
| TMF | |
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| Launched | 3 October 1998 |
| Closed | 1 November 2015 |
| Network | VIMN Belgium |
| Owned by | Viacom International Media Networks Northern Europe |
| Picture format | 16:9 576i (SDTV) |
| Slogan | Totally Yours! |
| Country | Belgium |
| Broadcast area | Flanders |
| Headquarters | Antwerp |
| Replaced by | Comedy Central going 24 Hours |
| Sister channel(s) |
Comedy Central Spike MTV Nickelodeon Nick Jr. Nicktoons Nick Hits |
| Website | www.tmf.be |
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Availability
(channel space shared with Comedy Central) |
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| Cable | |
| Available on all cable systems | Check local listings for channels |
| Telenet Digital TV | Channel 36 (Flanders) Channel 126 (Brussels) |
| Numericable | Channel 270 |
| Telenet | Check your local listings at zenders.be |
| Voo (Brussels) | Channel TBA |
| IPTV | |
| Belgacom TV | Channel 160 (Flanders) Channel 187 (Brussels & Wallonia) |
| SNOW | Channel TBA |
| Scarlet | Channel 160 (Flanders) Channel 187 (Brussels & Wallonia) |
| Streaming media | |
| Yelo TV | Watch Live |
| TV Overal | Watch Live |
TMF was a Flemish (Dutch spoken) television station operating from Antwerp, Zaventem (sales) and (broadcast) which mainly shows popmusic videoclips. TMF is an abbreviation of "The Music Factory". TMF was operated by Viacom International Media Networks.
It started as TMF Vlaanderen in 1998, mainly due to the success of the eponymous Dutch music television channel. The station began broadcasting on October 3, 1998. TMF Flanders is owned by MTV Networks Benelux.
The recordings of TMF Flanders occurred mainly in the Eurocam Media Center in Lint, there was until mid-2013 also established the parent company.
On May 1, 1995 TMF Nederland was started and was thus in Netherlands the first video channel. The station was initially not successful but that changed very quickly.
With the success TMF Flanders was launched on October 3, 1998. TMF Flanders was the first Flemish channels that broadcast video clips. VJs of the first hour included Stijn Smets, Yasmine, Inge Moerenhout and Katja Retsin. The broadcasts of TMF Flanders were recorded in the early years in the same building as TMF Nederland.
On 22 October 1999, the first were TMF Awards in Flanders held following the Dutch TMF Awards. TMF had in the early years, the number 9 called TMF, that was because in the Netherlands preference was to put TMF on channel 9. In 2002, the TMF shares were acquired by MTV Networks and disappeared 9 from the logo. in 2002 TMF in England was also launched. In late October 2009, it was replaced by VIVA, a similar music channel in Germany which is since 2004 owned by MTV Networks.
From 1 April 2003 to 15 February 2004 there was Nickelodeon on TMF between 6am and 11am. Nickelodeon is a kids channel with series such as SpongeBob SquarePants. There was then a Belgian legislation banning TV channels for five minutes before and after a children's program to broadcast advertising, so the channel sent video clips between programs. On February 16, 2004 Nickelodeon moved to the channel of MTV Europe and was sharing a channel with MTV Flanders. In the early years this was still the Dutch MTV and Nickelodeon but that has evolved over the years into a Flemish MTV and Nickelodeon.
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