News channel al-Jazeera stops in US

- The news channel al-Jazeera America keep in late April after more than 2.5 years now on. These sources have let the company know in New York. The American subsidiary of Al-Jazeera Media Network in Qatar has led a difficult existence as media observers. The owners in Qatar were partly due to falling oil prices have decided to stop their American adventure.

Al-Jazeera America was launched in August 2013 as a serious and independent news. But competition with American colleagues was very heavy. According to reports Wednesday on CNN, Al Jazeera America drew daily only between 20 000 and 40 000 viewers and the station was far from profitable.

A top executive of the parent company in Qatar, Mostefa Souag, told USA Today that the company remains active in the US and will expand the news on the Internet.