ZAP (Angola)
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| legal form | Private |
| founding | April 1, 2010 |
| Seat | Edificio ZAP Via - A4A, Piso 1 - Talatona , Luanda , Angola |
| management | José Carlos Lourenço |
| Number of employees | 1300 |
| Branch | media |
| Website | www.zap.co.ao |
| As of June 1, 2019 | |
ZAP is a telecommunications company that provides satellite , fiber optic and internet broadcast pay TV in Angola and Mozambique . It had a 69% market share in Angola at the end of 2019. ZAP is a joint venture between the Angolan SOCIP - Sociedade de Investimentos e Participações by Isabel dos Santos , which owns 70% of the shares, and the Portuguese media company NOS .
history
The company, which is part of the Finstar Group , began operations in Angola in April 2010. A year later, it also turned to the Mozambican market, where it also advanced to become the market leader. Since 2013, with the Vidas ZAP project, it has been offering selected orphanages free access to its programs on televisions made available free of charge. In March 2014 the company founded its own production company, ZAP Studios, which produces programs with more national content for the broadcaster. In the same year it began broadcasting its programs via cable and marketing it as a package plus internet. Since July 2015, ZAP has also been broadcasting the programs of the Brazilian media company Globo on the additional television channel Globo On in Angola and Mozambique. At the same time, the company was reaching one million connected households in Angola for the first time. In 2019, the total number of TV subscribers in Angola was 1.66 million. Since May 2019, the entertainment channel ZAP Viva has also been available to NOS customers in Portugal .
ZAP cinemas
In January 2016, the company started its own cinema chain with the opening of the first IMAX complex in Angola in the Avennida shopping center in Talatona , which also belongs to Isabel dos Santos' empire. The cinema has an area of 3800 m² with seven halls and 1600 seats. At the end of 2019, ZAP opened another IMAX cinema in the Shopping Fortaleza on Luanda's splendid avenue Avenida 4 de Fevereiro .
satellite
The 136 channels on offer are broadcast on the Eutelsat 36B satellite , 36 ° East in DVB-S2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Isabel dos Santos escolhe José Carlos Lourenço para director-geral da ZAP angola24horas.com , May 2, 2028, accessed on February 27, 2020 (Portuguese)
- ↑ País tem mais de 14 milhões de usuários de telefonia móvel novojornal.co.ao , December 23, 2019, accessed on February 27, 2020 (Portuguese)
- ↑ ZAP - Know the Company nos.pt , accessed on February 26, 2020 (English)
- ↑ ZAP a minha TV linkedin.com , accessed February 26, 2020 (Portuguese)
- ↑ ZAP partners Globo for Angola, Mozambique satellite channels rapidtvnews.com , June 8, 2015, accessed on February 26, 2020 (English)
- ↑ ZAP já tem um milhão de casas ligadas em Angola expansao.co.ao , June 29, 2015, accessed on February 26, 2020 (Portuguese)
- ↑ ZAP e DSTV perderam 179 mil clientes em 2019 menosfios.com , January 27, 2020, accessed on February 26, 2020 (Portuguese)
- ↑ Canal angolano ZAP Viva chega a Portugal meiosepublicidade.pt , May 2, 2029, accessed on February 26, 2020 (Portuguese)
- ↑ ZAP entra no mercado angolano dos cinemas com o maior ecrã do país sapo.pt , January 22, 2016, accessed on February 28, 2020 (Portuguese)
- ↑ Novo ZAP Cinemas nasce no Fortaleza Shopping, na Marginal de Luanda sapo.ao , August 18, 2019, accessed February 28, 2020 (Portuguese)
- ↑ Sobre a ZAP Satélite zap.co.ao , accessed on February 27, 2020 (Portuguese)
- ↑ ZAP Program eutelsat.com , accessed on February 27, 2020 (English)