ANS TV (also known as ANS Independent Broadcasting Media Company) is a news television channel in Azerbaijan, which owned by ANS Group of Companies since it was founded on March 9, 1992. Its name, ANS, stands for Azerbaijani News Service.

ANS was the first privately owned independent television company in the former Soviet Union.

In the early years of ANS' establishment, there were many local wars on the territory of the former Soviet Union. ANS TV got popularized by reporting news from the frontlines - Chechnya, Georgia, Ossetia, Karabakh, Abkhazia, Afghanistan, Ingushetia and frequently selling footage to BBC, CNN, NBC, ZDF, ARD, VOX, RAI, TF, RTR^{[disambiguation needed ]}, CBS, TBS.

Mubariz Mansimov (Azerbaijani: Mübariz Mənsimov, born March 22, 1968) is an Azerbaijani entrepreneur and the founder of Palmali Group of Companies, a major shipping company, as well of the Azerbaijani football club Khazar Lankaran. He is currently listed on Forbes list of billionaires, the youngest billionaire in Turkey as of March 1, 2009. Also he has a milk company named PALSUD.

Mansimov was born in Masalli, Azerbaijan in 1968, to a working-class family. He graduated from the Naval Academy^{[disambiguation needed ]} in Baku.

Mansimov's Palmali Group of Companies comprises television channel "Palhaber" and radio "PAL FM". He has also owns the nationally successful football club Khazar Lankaran, which has made an important contribution to the local region.