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The next new TV channel launching in South Africa and on MultiChoice's DStv pay-TV platform is a new popular music video channel kykNET Musiek starting on DStv on channel 146 and I can spill that kykNET Musiek will go live on Tuesday 13 November.
I'm told kykNET, the Afrikaans channel and division of M-Net, already running kykNET (DStv 144), Koowee (DStv 307) and MK (DStv 324) is "very excited" about the 3rd spinoff TV channel launching in a month's time. The new channel will start shortly after the new weekday morning breakfast show (and the first one in Afrikaans in South Africa) Dagbreek - on Monday 5 November on kykNET.
I'm told kykNET Musiek - whereas MK is more focused on youth genre music - will be a broadbased popular Afrikaans music video channel. "kykNET Musiek will be the place where you'll be able to see all your Afrikaans music stars - all the Kurt Darrens, all the Juanitas, all the Bobby van Jaarsvelds," I'm told.
kykNET Musiek's channel logo will be this one: the outline of a golden yellow star perched on top of the blue words: kykNET Musiek.
