Mass media in Angola

The mass media in Angola is primarily controlled by Angola's dominant political party, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).

Journalism[]

The country's official news agency is the government-owned Angola Press Agency (ANGOP), founded in 1975, and formerly allied with the official news agency of the Soviet Union, the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS).^[1] "The press was nationalized in 1976."^[2]

Print[]

Angolan newspapers include:

Agora^[3]
Angolense^[3]
^[4]
A Capital^[3]
Folha 8^[3]
Jornal de Angola^[5]
Novo Jornal^[3]
O Pais^[3]
^[6]

Telecommunications[]

Television and radio[]

TV Zimbo in a rival privately owned channel in Angola. On December 16, 2015, a new private TV station, Palanca TV, began broadcasting from the South African satellite subscription TV provider DStv.^[7]

References[]

^ Oyebade, Adebayo (2007). Culture and Customs of Angola. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 71–72. ISBN 978-0-313-33147-3. Retrieved January 22, 2010.
^ "Angola: Media and Publishing". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Angola Profile: Media". BBC News. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2003-03-14. Retrieved 2009-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ recipes, ink, cookbook. "Jornal de Angola". Retrieved 2017-07-10.
^ "semanarioangolense.net". www.semanarioangolense.net. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
^ "Palanca TV estreia na DStv" (in Portuguese). DSTV.com. 31 Dec 2015. Retrieved 2 Feb 2016.

Bibliography[]

"Angola: Directory: the Press". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. p. 62+. ISBN 1857431839.
Historical Dictionary of Angola (2nd ed.), USA: Scarecrow Press (published 2011), 2011-05-05, ISBN 9780810871939 (Includes information about newspapers, radio, tv)
Rita Figueiras; Nelson Ribeiro (2013). "New Global Flows of Capital in Media Industries after the 2008 Financial Crisis: The Angola–Portugal Relationship". International Journal of Press/Politics. 18 (4): 508. doi:10.1177/1940161213496583. S2CID 146997968.
Toyin Falola; Daniel Jean-Jacques, eds. (2015). "Angola: Media". Africa: an Encyclopedia of Culture and Society. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-59884-666-9.
"Angola", Freedom of the Press, USA: Freedom House, 2016, OCLC 57509361

External links[]

Karen Fung, African Studies Association (ed.). "News (by country): Angola". Africa South of the Sahara. USA – via Stanford University. Annotated directory

[culture-1] Oyebade, Adebayo (2007). Culture and Customs of Angola. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 71–72. ISBN 978-0-313-33147-3. Retrieved January 22, 2010.

[britannica-2] "Angola: Media and Publishing". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 10 June 2017.

[bbc-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Angola Profile: Media". BBC News. Retrieved 10 June 2017.

[4] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2003-03-14. Retrieved 2009-12-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[5] recipes, ink, cookbook. "Jornal de Angola". Retrieved 2017-07-10.

[6] "semanarioangolense.net". www.semanarioangolense.net. Retrieved 2017-07-10.

[7] "Palanca TV estreia na DStv" (in Portuguese). DSTV.com. 31 Dec 2015. Retrieved 2 Feb 2016.

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