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The Music Factory (TMF) is a pop music
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
 television channel
Television channel

A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier wave frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and 59.75 MHz for analog audio , or 55.31 MHz for digi...
 that operates in the Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 (TMF Nederland), Belgium
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
 (TMF Vlaanderen) the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 (TMF UK) and Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 (TMF Australia
TMF Australia

TMF Australia, which is owned by MTV Networks Australia, was soft-launched in April 2007 on the Optus Television pay TV service and will allow viewers to interact with the channel via the web and mobile commencing on June 22, 2007....
). The brand is owned by MTV Networks International (part of the Viacom
Viacom

Viacom , short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an United States media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable television and satellite television networks , and movie production and distribution ....
 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
Cribs

Cribs may mean:*A crib is a baby bed with high sides made of slats to protect an infant from rolling off onto the floor.* The term crib may also mean...
 and Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica in the UK.

Nederland was launched on May 1, 1995 as the Netherlands' only local pop station.






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The Music Factory (TMF) is a pop music
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
 television channel
Television channel

A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier wave frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and 59.75 MHz for analog audio , or 55.31 MHz for digi...
 that operates in the Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 (TMF Nederland), Belgium
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
 (TMF Vlaanderen) the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 (TMF UK) and Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 (TMF Australia
TMF Australia

TMF Australia, which is owned by MTV Networks Australia, was soft-launched in April 2007 on the Optus Television pay TV service and will allow viewers to interact with the channel via the web and mobile commencing on June 22, 2007....
). The brand is owned by MTV Networks International (part of the Viacom
Viacom

Viacom , short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an United States media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable television and satellite television networks , and movie production and distribution ....
 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
Cribs

Cribs may mean:*A crib is a baby bed with high sides made of slats to protect an infant from rolling off onto the floor.* The term crib may also mean...
 and Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica in the UK.

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
MTV Europe

MTV Europe launched on MTV's 6th birthday 1 August, 1987 under a co-operative agreement by Viacom and British Telecom until 1991 when Viacom took over full ownership....
, 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
TMF Awards

The TMF Awards are an annual television awards show broadcast live on TMF .The first Dutch TMF Awards were held in 1995, as a brand extension to the recently launched local Netherlands music channel TMF....
 in the Netherlands. It is headquartered in Bussum
Bussum

Media:Nl-Bussum.ogg is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland....
.

The channel is very well known in the Netherlands and throughout some of Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 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
MTV Networks Europe

MTV Networks Europe is a division of MTV Networks International, a subsidiary of Viacom. MTV Networks Europe includes the multimedia entertainment brands: MTV Europe, VH1 Europe, TMF, Viva , Nickelodeon , Comedy Central and Game One....
):

TMF Dance

Plays German, British, French, Belgium and Dutch trance
Trance

Trance denotes a variety of processes, techniques, modalities and states of mind, awareness and consciousness. Trance states may occur involuntarily and unbidden....
 and house music
House music

House music is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discoth?ques catering to the African-American, Latino, and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit....
. Formerly known as "TMF Party".

TMF NL

Plays Dutch Pop music.

TMF Pure

Plays mostly soul and R&B music.

TMF Radio

Launched on December 27, 2006.

TMF Australia


MTV Networks Australia launched The Music Factory (TMF) a fully integrated, multi-platform 24 hour music channel in May 2007. TMF is a truly interactive playground and music channel in one featuring 24 hours of music video programming and viewer-generated content including images, videos, text-based applications and graphics. Furthering the connectivity between the platforms, TMF was the first music channel in Australia to seamlessly connect all platforms as well as simulcast to mobile 24-hours a day via the Optus Zoo mobile portal launched in September 2007.

TMF Vlaanderen (Belgium)

TMF Vlaanderen (TMF Belgium) was the first international extension of the TMF brand. It broadcasts entirely in the Dutch language
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
, so it is only available in the Flanders
Flanders

Flanders is a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Over the course of history, the geographical territory that was called "Flanders" has varied....
 (Vlaanderen) region of Belgium. Founded in 1998, its headquarters are in Mechelen
Mechelen

Mechelen is a Dutch-speaking city and municipality in the province of Antwerp , Flanders, Belgium. The municipality comprises the city of Mechelen proper, some quarters at its outskirts, the hamlets of Nekkerspoel and Battel , as well as the villages of Walem, Heffen, Leest, Hombeek, and Muizen....
.

TMF UK

TMF UK started in 2002 as a counter against Emap
EMAP

EMAP is a United Kingdom media company, specialising in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the organisation of business events and conferences....
's The Hits
The Hits

The Hits was a music video Television channel in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland owned by Box Television....
 request music channel on Freeview (Digital Terrestrial Television). It broadcasts on channel 21. It also broadcasts on SKY
Sky

The sky is the part of the atmosphere or of outer space visible from the surface of any astronomical object. It is difficult to define precisely for several reasons....
 Digital and Virgin Media (Digital Cable Television). The channel, alongside its music output, shows reruns of successful MTV and VH1
VH1 UK

VH1 UK is a music television channel from MTV Networks Europe. VH1 is based on the VH1. It was launched on 10 October 1994.Targeting 25–44 year olds, VH1 UK aims to be "mature, sophisticated and totally stylish for viewers who still feel young and want to keep in-touch with what is happening on the music scene today." The music...
 shows such as Cribs
Cribs

Cribs may mean:*A crib is a baby bed with high sides made of slats to protect an infant from rolling off onto the floor.* The term crib may also mean...
, Wannabe with Chanelle, Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica and The Fabulous Life Of. There is also a strand of Noggin
Noggin (TV channel)

Noggin or sometimes known as Nickelodeon 's Noggin is a soon to be defunct 24-hour cable television Television network in the United States, intended to help children learn....
 in the morning for pre-school children (now replaced as Nick Jr on TMF).

On Mondays and Saturdays (repeat) TMF broadcasts The Official UK Top 40 narrated by Scott Mills
Scott Mills

Scott Mills is an Great Britain radio disc jockey best known for presenting The Scott Mills Daily on BBC Radio 1....
, a day after it is broadcast on BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a United Kingdom international radio station operated by the BBC, specialising in current popular music throughout the day, with a slight bias to Rock music & Independent music music....
. The show features videos of the singles of the previous week and charts their position in terms of record sales. The Official UK Top 40 is compiled by the Official Charts Company.

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