title: Mass media in Angola
text: # 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). "The press was nationalized 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 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.
  
  