SECTOR 2

Rádio Luanda, a non-commercial radio station, is the one that benefits the
most from public advertising. It is important to note here that Rádio Luanda
is the entertainment channel of the publicly owned Rádio Nacional de Angola.
This results in a situation of unfair competition with the private media. These
problems have been brought to the attention of government authorities, without
any measurable success.

Scores:
Individual scores:
1

Country does not meet indicator

2

Country meets only a few aspects of indicator

3

Country meets some aspects of indicator

4

Country meets most aspects of indicator

5

Country meets all aspects of the indicator

Average score: 			

1.6

2.11 The advertisement market is large enough to
support a diversity of media outlets.
The market is not yet sufficiently large to sustain media diversity in the country.
The fact that there is a large number of media outlets as well as the added issue
of unfair competition faced by the private media have a suffocating effect on the
advertising market.
According to a study by the market research company Marketext, Jornal de Angola,
the government-owned daily newspaper, collected US$1 million in advertising
revenue in just one month, whereas the privately owned O País received only
US$600,000 during the same period of time.
A number of media surveys have been conducted in Angola, but in the view of the
participants the reliability of such studies is highly questionable, which makes it
difficult to ascertain which media outlets are market leaders.

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