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Televisão Pública de Angola E.P. (Public Television of Angola) or TPA is the national broadcaster of the Southern African state of Angola. It operates two generalist television channels (TPA 1 and TPA 2) and a news channel (TPA Notícias). TPA is headquartered in the capital city Luanda and broadcasts in the Portuguese language.
Their native language is Portuguese, which today is the official language and lingua franca of Angola. Their communities existing in Luanda, Benguela and Moçâmedes spoke until the early 20th-century Portuguese mixed with numerous elements from African languages, especially Kimbundu and Umbundu.
[3] [4] It is spoken as a second language by many more throughout the country, and younger urban generations are moving towards the dominant or exclusive use of Portuguese. The 2014 population census found that about 71% of the nearly 25.8 million inhabitants of Angola speak Portuguese at home.
Portuguese is the official language of Angola. Angolan Portuguese ( Portuguese : português de Angola ) is a group of dialects and accents of Portuguese used in Angola. In 2005 it was used there by 60% of the population, including by 20% as their first language.
ZAP launched in Angola in 2010, providing a subscription based TV service covering the sub-Saharan countries to south of Angola. ZAP operates from the Eutelsat 36B satellite, placed over Africa at 36,0 degrees East, broadcasting in DVB-S2 in five K u band transponders with MPEG-4 compression and Nagravision encryption.
My Channel Africa is an Angolan pay television channel, owned by Grupo Record. It is available via satellite, through the operator DStv (channel 515, in HD and SD definitions), and on cable television, through the operator TV Cabo (channel 13), for some provinces of Angola and Mozambique.
Angola is a member of the United Nations, African Union, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, and the Southern African Development Community. As of 2023 [update] , the Angolan population is estimated at 37.2 million. [ 15 ]
Angola Telecom is one of twelve companies participating in the West Africa Cable System (WACS) consortium, a submarine communications cable running along the west coast of Africa and on to Portugal and the United Kingdom. [4] The landing station for the older Sat3 cable, located at Cacuaco in Luanda, is operated by Angola Telecom. [5]