International news channels and websites were blocked.

ECONOMIST: Uzbekistan

The channel, whose first program will be a news bulletin, will compete directly against Time Warner 's (nyse: TWX - news - people ) CNN International and BBC World, the two main global English-language satellite news channels.

FORBES: Al Jazeera In English

"Fox Sports is already the No. 1 sports channel elsewhere in Latin America, in terms of viewers, and we are confident that it will be in Brazil too, " said Carlos Martinez, president of Fox International Channels in Latin America, at a news conference.

WSJ: Fox Sports to Launch Channel in Brazil

Al-Jazeera International and Russia Today are among the English-language global news channels also set to launch in 2006.

BBC: NEWS | Europe | French channel set for 2006 start

The BBC alone has four 24-hour news channels (two radio, two TV, one each respectively for domestic and international audiences) along with three TV news bulletins a day, four radio news programmes most days, radio news bulletins, summaries and our online operation.

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