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Al Jazeera America (Television network)

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Corporate name headingAl Jazeera America (Television network)
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Variant(s)AlJazeera America (Television network)
Beginning date20130820
Associated countryUnited States
Field of activityTelevision broadcasting of news
Found inKeller, Michael. Terms of service, 2014, via WWW, viewed Nov. 12, 2014: PDF page 45 (Al Jazeera America, LLC)
Al Jazeera America, WWW home page, viewed Nov. 12, 2014 (Al Jazeera America; AlJazeera America) about (American news channel; First announced in January of 2013 and launched on August 20th)
An unlikely audience, 2017: ECIP data view (Al Jazeera America; variant: AJAM; American basic cable and satellite news television channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network, Doha; was launched on August 20, 2013 to compete with CNN, HLN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and in certain markets, RT America; the channel was Al Jazeera's second entry into the U.S. television market, after the launch of beIN Sport in 2012; the channel, which had persistently low ratings, announced in January 2016 that it would close on April 12, 2016] citing the "economic landscape"; The channel was headquartered and run from studios on the first floor of the Manhattan Center in New York City; 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)