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