The ANS Group of Companies is a news and broadcasting company in

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...

. It was founded by three young

Azeri Azerbaijanis (; az, Azərbaycanlılar, ), Azeris ( az, Azərilər, ), or Azerbaijani Turks ( az, Azərbaycan Türkləri, ) are a Turkic people living mainly in northwestern Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan. They are the second-most numer ...

journalists, brothers Vahid and Seyfulla Mustafayev in 1990. The Company name, ANS, derives from the first letters of ''Azerbaijan News Service''. ANS was the first privately owned company in the former

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. Being an independent news company
ANS Group of Companies
has played a significant role in the development of the independent media in

. Currently ANS Group of Companies owns four sub-companies:

ANS TV ANS TV (also known as ''ANS Independent Broadcasting Media Company'') was a news television channel in Azerbaijan, which was owned by ANS Group of Companies from its foundation on 26 November 1991 until its closure on 18 July 2016. Its name, ANS, ...

, ANS ChM, ANS Press and ANS Kommers. The group has also being know for its outspokenness, as seen through it media outlets.

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ANS TV

ANS ChM

ANS Kommers
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