Music Channel

The Music Factory

TMF is one of MTVs many branches of music channels. TMF is devoted to pop music and is an extremely popular channel as it is part of the freeview package. TMF is one of the main MTV channels which doesn't just braodcast music:

Here are a couple of programmes I have selected from their daily schedule. There is a huge range of programmes to reach a wide audience from children's TV, to music videos, to reality TV, to celebrity programmes. There are lots of programmes where thea udience are encouraged to be interactive, for example 'love match' where you text in you and your partner's name and TMF 'predict' whether you'll be a longlasting match.

MUSIC
1:00 - Big Ones & New Ones
The freshest videos on the box can be found right here!

KIDS
7:00 - Go Diego Go!
Diego is an action-adventure hero with an intense love of animals. He invites preschoolers to help him race to the rescue with a host of gadgets & vehicles including his transforming Rescue Pack!
7:30 - Dora The Explorer
Join Dora and her best friend, a monkey named Boots, in another exciting adventure.

MUSIC
9:00 - Ultimate 20 21st Century Videos

CELEBS
13:00 - Cribs
Welcome to Cribs, the most exciting way to peep into the homes of your favourite celebrities without getting slapped with a restraining order.

REALITY/CELEBS/PRANKS
13:30 - Punk'd
Sketch comedy show featuring Ashton Kutcher playing practical jokes on unsuspecting celebrities. Friends, family and a host of extras get involved in the Candid Camera-style pranks.

REALITY
14:00 - Laguna Beach: The Real O.C.
LC and the girls decide it's about time that all of the college kids from Laguna have a barbeque get together at her house. Meanwhile, Kristen is treated to a brand new car.

REALITY/AUDIENCE INTERACTIVITY
14:30 - Date My Mom UK
The weird dating show that has 1 hot batchelor dating three yummy mummies to discover everything they can about their daughters before making a final choice comes to the UK....

CELEBS
18:30 - Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica
The Newlyweds Vacation: Nick, Jessica, Drew, and Lea go skiing. Nick has problems skiing.

MUSIC
19:00 - The Official Download Chart
We take a look at the official biggest downloads of the moment.

CELEBS
20:00 - Celebrity Fashion Disasters...
...All Access: Good fashion choices? That's easy. But we're here to talk about the other side of fashion - the choices that are usually only whispered about behind people's backs.

AUDIENCE INTERACTIVITY
21:00 - Awesomely Wacky Families
Think your family is wacky? Your relatives have nothing on these dysfunctional families. Join us as we visit the Jacksons, the Osbournes, the Bushes, the Clintons, the Windsors and more.

It's clear to see that for an artist to be broadcast on TMF they would have to be nationally popular. That doesn't necessarily mean pop artists, but bands and soloists who have national appeal, for example, the arctic monkeys aren't a pop band, but they have taken the nation by storm. Furthermore, TMF places such emphasis on celebrity culture, that an artist would have to be very involved on the a-list scene and would have to have an appealing image.