HitRadio Veronica (Sky Radio)

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HitRadio Veronica

Naarden
Broadcast area	Netherlands
Frequency	Nationwide via the Internet
Programming
Format	Pop music
Ownership
Owner	Sky Radio Group
Sister stations	Radio Veronica
History
First air date	December 27, 2006, 12:00 as TMF Radio April 3, 2009, 18:00 as TMF HitRadio November 1, 2009 as HitRadio September 1, 2010 as HitRadio Veronica
Former call signs	HitRadio TMF HitRadio TMF Radio
Links
Webcast	Webstream
Website	www.hitradioveronica.nl

HitRadio Veronica is a Dutch radio station that broadcasts over the internet. On December 27, 2006 at 12:00pm TMF Radio was officially launched. TMF Radio until October 1, 2008 had a partnership between Sky Radio Group (Sienna Holding BV) and MTV Networks Benelux (TMF) and transmitted mostly hits from the cable frequency of Hitradio BV, which was acquired permanently in the spring of 2007 by Sky Radio Group and MTV Networks BV. MTV Networks has split on October 1, 2008 from TMF Radio and since then Sky Radio Group is the sole owner of the station, which now bears the name HitRadio Veronica. On January 3, 2011 the station ceased to listen to the broadcasts via cable and since the station is only through Internet.

The launch of the radio station gave quite a stir in the media. Ali B. (Ali Bouali) held on behalf of TMF, a fireworks launch with Yesser Roshdi ('Yes-R') and MTV VJs Miljouschka Witzenhausen and Valerio Zeno in accordance with TMF's 'most boring town in the Netherlands'; Staphorst. For this fireworks show MTV Networks BV had no license and was later claimed by the municipality for holding the event near a burial site of a 19-year-old. Staphorst wanted to sue Yes-R and Ali B for illegally using fireworks. It was found later on that the funeral of the 19-year-old boy was long before the fireworks show, so the charges were dropped.