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Al-Jazeera plans to visit U.S.

"NEW YORK -- Al-Jazeera on Thursday started slowly taking the wraps off plans to enter the U.S. market with a round-the-clock English-language version of the Middle East newsie.
Execs at the Qatar-based cablercabler say they are starting talks with cable and satellite operators in hopes of launching in the U.S. in early 2006.

Cable operators told Daily Variety on Thursday that talks with Al-Jazeera are in the very early stages. Time WarnerTime Warner Cable said it hadn't yet received a formal carriage proposal from the net; Cox Cable reps said they had not yet been approached either.

Al-Jazeera founder Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, who is also the ruler of oil-rich Qatar, is bankrolling the network."

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