- TMF Awards
The TMF Awards are an annual television awards show broadcast live on TMF (
The Music Factory ).The first Dutch TMF Awards were held in 1995, as a brand extension to the recently launched local Dutch music channel TMF. The show was very small and held in the company cafeteria. However throughout the years the event gradually moved to bigger venues, and for some time now, it is now being held in
Ahoy Rotterdam , a venue which can seat 10,000 people. In 2006, the show was held in the 'Heineken Music Hall' in Amsterdam.Since 1998 (with the arrival of the TMF Belgium 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 inAntwerp (for a crowd of 17,000 people).Fact|date=November 2007 In2007 ,the TMF awards moved to the Ethias Arena inHasselt (for a crowd of 21,600 people.)Both the Dutch TMF Awards as the Belgian TMF Awards are shown live in
Belgium (Flanders) and theNetherlands . About a week later, they are shown onTMF UK . The Dutch show usually takes place in April; the Belgian show in October. In2006 both shows were in October. The Dutch TMF Awards were on the 13th, the Belgium TMF Awards on14 October .Zornik and Tokio Hotel were this year's winners at the Belgian TMF awards.Rihanna was nominated for 5 awards, but she didn't win any of them. The edition of 2007 was presented byVJ An , who left TMF Belgium after the show, VJ Sean, VJ Ollie and VJ Lynn.In both countries these award shows are widely regarded as the biggest popular music awards of the country.Fact|date=November 2007 In the UK however, they are hardly noticed.Fact|date=November 2007
2007 Belgian TMF Awards winners and nominees
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