Al Jazeera America was an American pay television news channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network. The channel was launched on August 20, 2013, to compete with CNN, HLN, MSNBC, Fox News, and in certain markets RT America. It was Al Jazeera's second entry into the U.S. television market, after the launch of beIN Sports in 2012. The channel, which had persistently low ratings, announced in January 2016 that it would close on 12 April 2016,[1] citing the "economic landscape".[2]
Al Jazeera America was headquartered and run from studios on the first floor of the Manhattan Center in New York City.[3][4][5] It also had a total of 12 bureaus located in places such as Washington, D.C., at the channel's D.C. studios at the Newseum and Al Jazeera's D.C. hub, Chicago, Detroit, Nashville, Los Angeles, Seattle, New Orleans, Dallas, Denver, Miami, and San Francisco (former headquarters of Current TV and current headquarters of online channel AJ+).[6][7]
The channel was the sister channel of Al Jazeera's international English language news channel Al Jazeera English. Although operated and managed completely separately with America's management based in the United States, the two shared United States studios and bureaus, such as the D.C. hub, and Al Jazeera America ran some of Al Jazeera English's programming and many of its live newscasts alongside its own.
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^"Manhattan Center Announces Al Jazeera America as Its Newest Television Studio Client". Yahoo!. August 20, 2013. Archived from the original on April 22, 2014. Retrieved August 22, 2013.
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^Guthrie, Marisa (July 18, 2013). "Al Jazeera America: Can Oil Money Buy Relevance for the Controversial Network?". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
^Enda, Jodi; Guskin, Emily (May 28, 2013). "Al Jazeera America's biggest challenge: 'getting people to show up'". Pew Research Center. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
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