The Qatar-funded cable news network’s final US broadcast will be 30 April,as viewership remained meager and declining oil prices effect a damper on fundingLess than three years after its launch, Al-Jazeera America is shutting down. The news was abruptly announced to staff on Wednesday afternoon. The network’s final day on the air will be 30 April.
The enterprise was troubled from the beginning: seven hours into its first day on the air, or Al-Jazeera America was already mired in a lawsuit with one of its carriers,AT&T, which dropped the network before it even began. Its viewership was usually between 20000 and 40000 viewers in prime time – Fox News averaged 1.95m viewers in the third quarter of 2015.
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Source: theguardian.com