

On July 22, 2013, Al Jazeera America named former ABC News Vice President Kate O'Brian as president of the network, and Ehab Al Shihabi as interim CEO in charge of business affairs. Current TV, by coincidence, was formerly Newsworld International, an international news channel similar to Al Jazeera America run by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was reported that Al Jazeera planned on shutting down Current TV, keeping its production staff and possibly some programs, and using the company's distribution network to broadcast Al Jazeera America. The creation of Al Jazeera America was announced on January 2, 2013, along with the announcement that the network had purchased the user-generated content channel turned progressive-oriented pay television channel Current TV, which had long been struggling in the ratings and after two format changes had announced in October 2012 that it was considering a sale of the channel. 10.1 Reactions to "The Dark Side: Secrets of the Sports Dopers" documentary.6.2 Produced/provided by Al Jazeera English.hub, and Al Jazeera America ran some of Al Jazeera English's programming and many of its live newscasts alongside its own. 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. The channel was the sister channel of Al Jazeera's international English language news channel Al Jazeera English. 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+). studios at the Newseum and Al Jazeera's D.C. It also had a total of 12 bureaus located in places such as Washington, D.C., at the channel's D.C. Īl Jazeera America was headquartered and run from studios on the first floor of the Manhattan Center in New York City.

The channel, which had persistently low ratings, announced in January 2016 that it would close on April 12, 2016, citing the "economic landscape". television market, after the launch of beIN Sports in 2012. It was Al Jazeera's second entry into the U.S. The channel was launched on August 20, 2013, to compete with CNN, HLN, MSNBC, Fox News, and in certain markets RT America. Al Jazeera America was an American pay television news channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network.
