The Music Factory

The channel operated until 26 October 2009 in the UK and Ireland, 1 September 2011 in the Netherlands and 1 November 2015 in Belgium.

In 2005, three new channels, plus a radio station began broadcasting in the Netherlands under the TMF brand: On 1 September 2011, TMF Nederland ceased broadcasting in the Netherlands entirely, and on 31 December 2011 all digital channels ceased operations.

VJs at the beginning included Stijn Smets, Yasmine, Inge Moerenhout and Katja Retsin.

Founded in 1998, its headquarters were in Mechelen but moved to Lint and later (after the re-alignment of VIMN Northern Europe) to Antwerp (local office) and Stockholm (channel operations).

On 1 November 2015, TMF Flanders ceased broadcasting in Belgium entirely, making Comedy Central a 24 hours channel.

TMF launched on 30 October 2002 as a counter against EMAP's The Hits request music channel on Freeview.

The show featured videos of the singles of the previous week and charts their position in terms of record sales.

[1] MTV Networks Australia launched a local version of TMF as a fully integrated, multi-platform 24-hour music channel in May 2007.