Drawing on the legacy of the groundbreaking Al Jazeera Arabic channel, Al Jazeera English (AJE) was launched on November 15, 2006 to more than 80 million households worldwide.

The 24-hour news and current affairs channel is the first international English-language news channel to broadcast across the globe from the Middle East.

Al Jazeera English’s global footprint continues to grow and now broadcasts to more than 220 million households on six continents in more than 100 countries.

C-Span broadcasts live and recorded coverage of the legislative processes in the United States and from other countries of interest to the United States. 

C-Span is an abbreviation of Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, and is owned and operated exclusively by the american cable industry. 

Along with its legislative coverage, the network also airs non-stop coverage of government proceedings and public affairs programming. Like the BBC in the United Kingdom, C-SPAN does not accept outside, revenue-generating advertising, with the only commercials airing are for its own programmes and products.

CBC News Network (formerly CBC Newsworld) is a Canadian English language cable television specialty news channel owned and operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

It broadcasts into over 10 million homes in Canada. It is the world's third-oldest television service of this nature, after CNN in the United States and Sky News in the United Kingdom.

With CNN already being widely available in Canada, during the 1980s both private and public Canadian broadcasters began to apply for a licence for a similar 24-hour news service in Canada.

CTV News Channel is Canada's 24-hour all-news network. CTV News Channel draws on the vast resources of CTV News, to deliver breaking news the second it happens from communities across Canada and around the world.

CTV News Channel also has strategic alliances with CNN, ABC and APTN to bring Canadians the latest in politics, business, entertainment, sports, and weather.

Deutsche Welle is Germany's international news and information broadcaster. It is a full-service news, information and entertainment broadcaster, offering viewers around the globe news and information from Germany, Europe and the World.

Deutshe Welle's aim is to "promote understanding of Germany as an independent nation with its roots in European culture and as a liberal, democratic, constitutional state based on the rule of law."

Euronews is the leading international news channel covering world news from a European perspective.

Launched in 1993, euronews today is a multi-lingual (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Arabic), multi-platform news service.

Fox News is a general news channel broadcast primarily for a US audience, but is also viewable worldwide via the resources of News Corp's broadcasting presence in many countries, including the UK, on Sky Digital. 

Fox News broadcasts business news updates throughout the day, and has a one hour business programme which airs at 4pm ET called Your World, with Neil Cavuto.

Launched on December 2006, France 24 is a 24/7 international news channel. Its mission is to cover international current events from a French perspective and to convey French values throughout the world.  France 24 is a true news hub that broadcasts its programs over the airwaves and over the internet in French, English and Arabic.

The channel is available in its different languages on the main satellite positions and commercial feeds (satellite, cable, DSL) in Europe, the Near and Middle East and Africa, not to mention New-York and Washington D.C. 

MSNBC defines news for the next generation with world-class reporting and a full schedule of live news coverage, political analysis and award-winning documentary programming -- 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

MSNBC’s home on the Internet is msnbc.com.  Msnbc.com delivers a fuller spectrum of news.  Drawing on its award-winning original journalism, NBC News heritage, trusted sources and Microsoft’s advanced technologies, the site presents compelling, diverse and visually-engaging stories on the consumer’s platform of choice.

RT was setup to step beyond the boundaries of bare facts and bring you the human side to every story. Broadcasting in English 24/7 in over 100 countries spread over five continents, RT is here to show how any story can be another story altogether.

RT's correspondents in New York and Washington, London and Paris, Delhi and Tel Aviv focus on international headlines whilst giving an innovative angle set to challenge viewers worldwide. RT was the first television station in the world to set up a bureau in Tskhinval, the capital of South Ossetia after the August 2008 conflict.

Sky News is a British rolling television news channel providing 24 hour news coverage including the latest breaking news. Currently broadcasting from its headquarters in Osterley, near London, the channel provides domestic and international coverage to audiences in the UK as well as around the globe.

Sky News started broadcasting on 5 February 1989 as part of the then four-channel Sky Television service. Sky News provides an hourly news radio service to multiple radio networks in the UK. Although the station is targeted at the UK and Ireland, it is carried around the world on a number of services, particularly being favoured by expatriates who want to keep up-to-date with the latest news from home.

Sky News Australia comenced its 24-hour news service at 5pm on the evening of February 19th 1996, becoming the first and only Australian produced television news channel. 

Since that first broadcast, Sky News has grown to become an essential part of the Australian media landscape. Sky News Australia features news on the hour, every hour and headlines every fifteen minutes changing the way Australians get their television news.

Apart from the flagship news on the hour service, Sky News also produces a variety of half hour programs each week, including Agenda, Eco Report, Health Report and Sportsline. 

With bulletins every hour, 24 hours a day, Sky News is available to around 60m homes in Europe alone and a further 10m across Africa, the Middle East and Asia – meaning that viewers across all these markets are kept fully up-to-date with global breaking news.

Valued for its fairness, balance and journalistic objectivity by both viewers and regulators, Sky News brings a fresh approach to news broadcasting through innovative coverage of high-profile events, plus dedicated strands allowing the channel to respond to various audience demands at different times of day – while always retaining the ability to switch instantly to breaking news.

Sky News New Zealand is a rebroadcast of Sky News Australia however carries the NZ branding, and appears on SKY Television.

The programming is nearly identical to Sky News Australia, except for a nightly bulletin, plus a twice weekly afternoon one, being produced in New Zealand.

In the late 1990s Sky News Australia started broadcasting in New Zealand, replacing Sky News from the UK. Shortly afterwards, Sky News Australia New Zealand was launched, with a small amount of New Zealand-specific content.

The Weather Channel Cable Network launched on May 2nd 1982, and is America's pre-eminent all-weather news network, providing accurate and relevant weather programming for viewers everywhere.

The Weather Channel uses state-of-the-art technology for the presentation and dissemination of weather information, including cutting-edge, patented equipment for creating weather graphics and new products. 

The programs are put together and broadcast from the Global Forecast Center generating over 3,200 individual forecasts simultaneously for the core network plus thousands more for Weatherscan, weather.com, ITV and mobile weather products.

TVNZ 7 is a commercial-free New Zealand 24-hour news and information channel on Freeview digital television platform and on SKY Television Digital from 1 July 2009.

It is produced by Television New Zealand, which received Government funding to launch two additional channels. The channel went to air just after 10am on March 25, 2008 with a looped preview reel.

After a countdown which lasted at least an hour, the channel was officially launched at 12 noon on March 30, 2008 with a special "kingmaker" political debate held within the Parliament building and featuring most of the elected minor party leaders.