ZAP Viva is one of the paid channels belonging to the Angolan company ZAP, transmitted from this December 24, 2012, broadcast 24 hours a day and its programming is based on entertainment productions such as

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, talent, reality and

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. The channel is broadcast in

Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...

and

Mozambique Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Afr ...

, through the satellite television operator ZAP. Its HD broadcast began on October 1, 2017 at position 5 of ZAP. In

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, the channel arrived at satellite television operator NOS on May 11, 2019. It is available in the basic package. At the 19th annual Eutelsat TV Awards (which distinguish excellence and innovation in the broadcasting of television content), the channel won the category "Best Entertainment/Fiction Channel". The winners were announced in

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, Italy with the participation of more than 350 broadcast industry executives from around the world, where a ZAP delegation came to receive the prize.

References

External links

Official website in Angola

Official website in Mozambique
{{Television in Angola Television channels and stations established in 2012 Television channels in Angola Television channels in Mozambique Portuguese-language television networks