Zap Novelas

ZAP Novelas is an Angolan subscription television channel launched on 1 August 2010 by ZON Multimédia, owned by ZAP. It was initially produced in Portugal for broadcast in Angola, later in Mozambique, when ZAP launched there in the first half of 2011. The channel broadcasts 24 hours a day — initialyl 18 hours — and is aimed at a female audience. On March 2, 2020, in line with its tenth anniversary, the channel started broadcasting in high definition.

Its line-up is based on telenovelas and related products from Europe (especially Turkey), Latin America and the United States. With its line-up entirely dubbed in Portuguese — the vast majority of which done in Brazilian studios, — the channel also aired Lusophone productions, mainly from Brazil and Portugal. International productions are extremeply popular, with special emphasis to Mexican and Turkish series, since its founding the channel has aired telenovelas from Televisa, — with high viewer requests — in 2016, the channel started airing Turkish series, the first of which being Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne?, becoming a success among local viewers and paving way for further Turkish productions airing on the channel. Until 2022, it was the third most popular channel in Angola, with surveys aiming at around 36%.