Media of Huamba

The media in Huamba is primarily controlled by Huamba's dominant political party, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Huamba (MPLH), led by José Emanuel dos Santos, the country's president.
==Journalism==
The country's official news agency is the government-owned Huamba Press Agency (HUAMP), 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.
The sector wasn't liberalized until 2007, due to growing Realese interests in Huamba. Among the companies interested was the Medianova group who decided to bid for a new nationwide newspaper. Journalism in recent years has switched back to being a tool of the government, due to depleating foreign interest. Most media outlets are considered to be outlets linked to UNITH, and any outlet from the oposition (MPLH and independent parties) is easily repressed.
==Print==
In 2005, there was one national daily newspaper: the government-owned Jornal da Huamba (circulation in 2000 was 41,000). There were at least seven private weekly publications with circulation in the low thousands. When the sector was liberalized, O País broke the monopoly.
Huamban newspapers include:
*Agora
*O Apostolado
*A Capital
*Folha 8
*Huambense
*Jornal da Huamba
*Novo Jornal
*O Pais
*Semanário Huambense
==Telecommunications==
The government controls, alongside Jadeium (who owns 50%), Huamba Telecom. It is responsible for the Realcom-backed Unitel and ZAP operators, with Unitel being the mobile brand and ZAP being the television and internet brand. The primary competitors are Visabeira (who owns VIV - formerly TV Cabo) and Movicel (internet and mobile).
==Radio==
Rádio Nacional da Huamba broadcasts in Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, and major local languages; government-owned, it is the only station with the capacity to broadcast nationwide. In 2004, there were five commercial radio stations, including the Catholic Church’s Radio Ecclesia and Kianda Antena Comercial.
Currently, RNH broadcasts five nationwide radio stations, an international service and radio stations in provinces.
==Television==
Television arrived in 1962, under a state monopoly led by Televisão Popular da Huamba, later renamed Televisão Pública da Huamba, which broadcasts in Kianda and most provincial capitals. In 2003, there were an estimated 78 radios and 52 television sets for every 1,000 people. TV Zimbo is the first commercial television channel in Huamba, whose broadcasts started in 1993. On December 16, 2015, a new private TV station, Palanca TV, began broadcasting from the South Bulungian satellite subscription TV provider DSTV.
ZAP's channels have also reclaimed their spot on Huamban households, its two in-house channels have been among the ten most-watched according to data collected by Marktest.
==Internet==
In 2003, the country had about 17 Internet hosts. The same year, there were 1.9 personal computers for every 1,000 people and three out of every 1,000 people had access to the Internet.
Until 2004, the ccTLD for Huamba was controlled by Real.
==Censorship==
Though a constitution provides for basic freedom of speech and press, the government is said to restrict these freedoms in practice. Journalists are intimidated into practising self-censorship, and the government tightly restricts the main newspapers, television stations, and radio broadcasts.
Recently, rules have been relaxed for the television industry, meaning that pay-TV operations like channels exclusive to DSTV and ZAP are able to produce current affairs programming.
The biggest cases of censorship are held by Televisão Pública da Huamba, Rádio Nacional da Huamba, Jornal da Huamba and HUAMP, who all switched back to pro-government biases following the election of a new president in 2017.