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. On 16 July 2014 DStv announced that kykNET would be broadcast in high-definition from 12 August 2014. A kykNET International service is available online to subscribers in selected countries in North America, Europe and Australasia via the Showmax platform. It was also previously available in the UK, where it was launched on TalkTalk's IPTV service, TalkTalk Plus TV, in October 2013. However, it was dropped by TalkTalk in December 2015.

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Kyknet lekker is available on DStv access but not on other packages. Kyknet en kie, Kyknet nou, en Kyknet via is on DStv access, family, compact, compact+ and DStv premium, while Kyknet 144 HD is available on DStv premium and compact plus. The Flieknet channel is available on all packages for R100 extra as a addon. It is available on DStv premium For free.