ZAP is a digital satellite television provider mainly for Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 speaking countries in sub-Saharan Africa. ZAP launched in Angola in 2010, providing a subscription based TV service covering the sub-Saharan countries to south of Angola. ZAP operates from the Eutelsat W7 satellite, placed over Africa at 36,0 degrees East, broadcasting in DVB-S2 in five transponders with MPEG-4 compression and Nagravision encryption.

ZAP provides an unprecedented number of Portuguese language channels for a region where Portuguese-speaking African countries

PALOP

The Portuguese-speaking African countries are a group of five African countries where the Portuguese language is the official language: Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe. Together with Portugal, Brazil and East Timor, these countries form the Community of...

 account for more than 40 million people.

In order to subscribe to ZAP's television service a subscriber can use either one of the two available decoders. The "HD+" decodes the encrypted signal, provides an Electronic Programming Guide, High Definition image and 5.1 stereo sound. The "HD+DVR" decoder provides the additional functionality of Digital Video Recorder

Digital video recorder

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Channels

ZAP currently offers 100 channels, including several HDTV channels, featuring TV series, films, music, children’s programmes, news, sports and documentaries. The subscribers may chose one of three tiered channel packages: "Mini" with 35 channels; "Max" with 80 channels; and "Premium" with 100 channels.
Additionally ZAP provides several radio channels.

• TPA1
  
• TPA2
  
• TV Zimbo
  
• RTP África
  
• RTP Internacional
  
• TVI Internacional
  
• SIC Mulher
  
• Band Internacional
  
• RTP N
  
• TVI 24
  
• SIC Notícias
  
• Económico TV
  
• Band News
  
• SportTV África HD
  
• NBA TV
  
• Setanta África
  
• Eurosport 2
  
• Eurosport News
  
• Real Madrid TV
  
• Manchester United TV
  
• Extreme Sports
  
• Yacht & Sail
  
• Panda
  
• Panda Biggs
  
• SIC K
  
• KidsCo
  
• Baby First TV
  
• Baby TV
  
• Tiji
  
• TVC 1
  
• TVC 2
  
• TVC 3
  
• TVC HD
  
• Hollywood
  
• AXN
  
• AXN HD
  
• MOV
  
• MOV HD
  
• FOX Next
  
• FX
  
• Sony TV
  
• Animax
  
• ZAP Novelas
  
• TL Novelas
  
• TLN
  
• Canal de Las Estrellas
  
• BET
  
• Bem Simples
  
• FLN
  
• Decasa
  
• Canal Cocina
  
• The Food Network
  
• Luxe TV HD
  
• Lifestyle
  
• FashionTV HD
  
• AfroMusic
  
• MTV Base
  
• MCM Pop
  
• MCM Top
  
• Ritmoson Latino
  
• Sol Música
  
• Kiss
  
• Smash Hits
  
• I-Concerts HD
  
• C-Music
  
• Brava HD
  
• Odisseia
  
• The Biography Channel
  
• História
  
• Travel
  
• El Garage
  
• Management TV
  
• MYZEN.TV Nature HD
  
• MYZEN.TV Music HD
  
• MYZEN.TV Coaching HD
  
• Euronews
  
• BBC World News
  
• Al Jazeera
  
• Bloomberg
  
• Russia Today
  
• France 24
  
• TVE 24
  
• Rossiya 24
  
• CCTV News
  
• TVE Internacional
  
• RTR Planeta
  
• CCTV-4