The mass media in Angola is primarily controlled by

Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Luanda , religion = , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , coordina ...

's dominant political party, the

People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( pt, Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, abbr. MPLA), for some years called the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Labour Party (), is an Angolan left-wing, social de ...

(MPLA).

Journalism

The country's official news agency is the government-owned

Angola Press Agency The Angola Press News Agency or Angola Press Agency (ANGOP; pt, Agência Angola Press) is the official news agency of Angola, based in Luanda. Founded in 1975, it was a former close ally of the now-defunct TASS of the Soviet Union. It is part o ...

(ANGOP), founded in 1975, and formerly allied with the official news agency of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

, the

Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union The Russian News Agency TASS (russian: Информацио́нное аге́нтство Росси́и ТАСС, translit=Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii, or Information agency of Russia), abbreviated TASS (russian: ТАСС, label=none) ...

(TASS). "The press was

nationalized Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state. Nationalization usually refers to pri ...

in 1976."

Print

Angolan newspapers include: * ''Agora'' * ''Angolense'' * '' O Apostolado'' * ''A Capital'' * ''Folha 8'' * ''Jornal de Angola'' * ''Novo Jornal'' * ''O Pais'' * '' Semanário Angolense''

Telecommunications

Television and radio

TV Zimbo TV Zimbo is the first private TV station in Angola. TV Zimbo is owned by the private media publisher Medianova. History TV Zimbo was founded on 14 December 2008 and started regular programming on 15 May 2009, in time for the 2009 elections and t ...

in a rival privately owned channel in Angola. On December 16, 2015, a new private TV station,

Palanca TV Palanca TV was an Angolan private TV station that began broadcasting on December 15, 2015. The channel was available for Angolan subscribers through South African satellite service provider DStv. Initially a private television channel, the chann ...

, began broadcasting from the South African satellite subscription TV provider

DStv Digital Satellite Television, commonly abbreviated to DStv, is a Sub-Saharan African direct broadcast satellite service owned by MultiChoice and based in Randburg, South Africa. Launched on 6 October 1995, the service provides multiple audio, ...

References

Bibliography

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External links

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