Al Jazeera America leaves the television

By the end of April 2016, Al Jazeera America will stop broadcasting in the United States.

According to The New York Times , the leadership of the channel explained this decision by the fact that his business model turned out to be ineffective in the conditions of an American media market.

At the same time, it was announced that Al Jazeera America’s intention to expand its presence in the digital media market due to the “new global content”.

Catar Corporation Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN) launched the English-language news television channel Al Jazeera America in August 2013, having bought Current TVB for $ 500 million, owned by the former US Vice President Albert Gorus.

The main competitors of Al Jazeera America were the American channels CNN, HLN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel , as well as the Russian RT America channel.

The central office of Al Jazeera America is located in New York. In addition, the channel has 12 bureaus in different cities of the United States, sharing some of them with another English -language channel Ajmn, Al Jazeera English .

The creators of Al Jazeera America promised “thoughtful” coverage of events, but the American audience did not show much interest in the new news channel: even in the prime time, the number of its spectators at times did not exceed 30 thousand throughout the country.