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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
[edit]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]
Angolan newspapers include:
- Agora[3]
- Angolense[3]
- O Apostolado[4]
- A Capital[3]
- Folha 8[3]
- Jornal de Angola[5]
- Novo Jornal[3]
- O Pais[3]
- Semanário Angolense[6]
Telecommunications
[edit]Television and radio
[edit]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]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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. 11 April 2011. 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.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "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
[edit]- "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
[edit]- Karen Fung, African Studies Association (ed.). "News (by country): Angola". Africa South of the Sahara. USA – via Stanford University.
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