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television channel of the

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for "Jong, Interactief en Meer" (English: ''Young, Interactive and More''). During its first years, the channel mainly broadcast

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s. They have since started mixing this with programs such as Brainiac and

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. The channel stopped broadcasting on 16 December 2015.

History

The cradle of JIMtv were Jo Nachtergaele, Michael Dujardin, Peter Hoogland, Frank Molnar, Serge Jespers and Inge Tossyn. They were responsible for the content, the channel look and positioning of JIMtv. The first broadcast on 2 April 2001 started with "God Is A DJ" by

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followed by an introductory program in which all people and behind the scenes themselves were submitted. On 2 April 2006, the channel celebrated its fifth anniversary. Nowadays the channel is just called JIM. Originally, the letter combination 'JIM' stood for "Jong, Interactief en Meer" (English: ''Young, Interactive and More''). The suffix 'TV' was omitted because VMMa (later called Medialaan from 2014-2018, now DPG Media) initially also wanted to set up a radio station called JIMfm, but those plans were abandoned. In November 2001 VMMa launched still a radio station: Q-music. On 15 September 2015 Medialaan announced that JIM would cease broadcasting on 16 December 2015. The vacant channel is filled by a new children's channel

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from 19 December 2015, which focuses primarily on boys between 8 and 12 years old.

VJs

Some of the VJs of the music channel were Anneleen Liégeois, Anneke Van Hoof, Jan Van den Bossche, Ben Roelants, Thomas Vanderveken, Tess Goossens, Ilse Lievens, Frank Molnar, Eline De Munck,

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, Sean D'Hondt, Kevin Janssens, and many more. In 2015 Niko Van Driessche, Britt Valkenborghs, Vincent Banic, Elisa Guarraci and Jolien De Greef were the VJs of service.

Logos

File:JIM logo 2001.svg, 2001 - 2010 File:JIMlogo.png, 2010 - 2014 File:JIM logo 2014.png, 2014 - 2015

Events

Jimmies

Since 2012 JIM presented annually in February his own playful prizes, De Jimmies (officially ''JIM awards''), in a variety of musical and other mediatic categories: * best film, the faux pas of the year, person of the year, best game * the musical in every national and international versions: best group, best newcomer, best clip, best singer, best female singer.

Livestream

Since the logo of JIM and the full range of programs was changed on 11 October 2010, one can now watch JIM live via JIM website.

Radio station

Originally, the VMMa was planning on launching a youth radio station called JIMfm as a complement to JIMtv. These plans were later dropped.VMMa drops its plans for JIMfm
iRadio.be, 05/31/08

References

External links

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{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620233548/http://jim.be/ , date=20 June 2009 Defunct music video networks Music television channels Defunct television channels in Belgium Television channels in Flanders Television channels in Belgium Television channels and stations established in 2001 Television channels and stations disestablished in 2015 History of Vilvoorde Music organisations based in Belgium