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Al Jazeera America to close down

vchimpanzee said:
And I should have mentioned Time Warner. I thought maybe they had news on Channel 14 in all their markets, but maybe that's just North Carolina.
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Thanks for the additional clarification. To the best of my knowledge, that's the only area where TWC operates their own regional news service ... I might have thought of that myself if I had a couple of years to rack my brain. ;)
 
K.M. Richards said:
Thanks for the additional clarification. To the best of my knowledge, that's the only area where TWC operates their own regional news service ... I might have thought of that myself if I had a couple of years to rack my brain. ;)
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People objected when I told them too much information. Apparently I left too much out.
 
vchimpanzee said:
People objected when I told them too much information. Apparently I left too much out.
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I should think that you would know when something is necessary for clarification and when it is just over the top. You are far from being a "newbie" poster.

One thing that would have probably prevented me from asking when I did would have been if you had a location in your left panel ID (set in your profile). If I'd seen even just the state name there I likely would have remembered the TWC service.
 
I don't expect Comcast to replace AJA with anything here in the Denver area (AJA is on in SD as it is) since it's buried on no man's land on Channel 107

JMO.....

Cheers & 73 :)
 
K.M. Richards said:
No, the OP clarified in post #20 that he meant the Time Warner "Carolina News 14" service, Pat.
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Speaking of North Carolina, I was visiting some friends in Durham a few years ago and noticed that Time Warner carries "NY1" (the New York City regional news channel) down there.
 
ansky212 said:
Speaking of North Carolina, I was visiting some friends in Durham a few years ago and noticed that Time Warner carries "NY1" (the New York City regional news channel) down there.
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there's a lot of transplants in NC, but isn't the Florida the magnet for the NYC snowbirds?
 
Even as a watered down AJE for me it was best option of crappy US news channels. I watched it until Dish dropped it from their "A La Carte" platform and wasn't willing to spend an extra $20 for a satellite package that carried it.
 
I can understand Al Jazeera wasn't getting much ratings for its American news channel. But I don't understand why they'd shut it down completely. AJE, the international service, still has to have correspondents around the U.S. And I'm sure they'd still like to see their service carried in the U.S., just as the BBC, NHK Japan, RT from Russia, CCTV and CNC from China, and France 24 all like having their English language news channels carried in America, even if their ratings are next to nothing. (Well maybe the BBC scores some small ratings.)

So why not get rid of some of the American staff and reduce your local content, while running mostly the international service? Many hours, AJA simulcasts the international service, anyway. And AJE will still have a sizable number of U.S. based reporters to feed the international network, even though they likely will never see their work carried on American cable systems.

Al Jazeera English really is a decent international news channel and I'd hate to see it go because Al Jazeera America failed. I also think that "Tech Know" and "Listening Post" are good shows. But I guess in a few months, we won't see them, unless we go to the Al Jazeera website to watch them.
 
They may do just that. If they can sell the carriage agreements and AJA assets to cut their losses, I think they will, but if no money is forthcoming, they'll probably air something.
 
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