KykNet
kykNET
Television channel
kykNET is a South African Afrikaans-language television channel. Owned by pay-TV operator M-Net, it was launched on the DStv satellite service in 15th November 1999. In its development phase, the channel had the placeholder name The Afrikaans Channel.[1] On 16 July 2014 DStv announced that kykNET would be broadcast in high-definition from 12 August 2014.[2]
A kykNET International service is available online to subscribers in selected countries in North America, Europe and Australasia via the Showmax platform.[3]
It was also previously available in the UK, where it was launched on TalkTalk's IPTV service, TalkTalk Plus TV, in October 2013.[4] However, it was dropped by TalkTalk in December 2015.[5]