Since 1998 (with the arrival of the Belgian 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 2,000 people), and gradually moved to Flanders Expo in Gent (for a crowd of 8,000 people).
The past couple of years leading up to 2007, the Belgian edition has surpassed the Dutch edition after it moved to the Sportpaleis Merksem in Antwerp (for a crowd of 17,000 people).
[citation needed] In 2007, the TMF awards moved to the Ethias Arena in Hasselt (for a crowd of 21,600 people.)
Both the Dutch & Belgian TMF Awards were broadcast live in Belgium (Flanders) and the Netherlands.