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82-466: The Manhattan Center was originally called the Manhattan Opera House and was built in 1906 by Oscar Hammerstein I , and was located one half block east of the 9th Avenue Elevated 's 34th Street station . Hammerstein boldly sought to compete with the established Metropolitan Opera (at the time, located at the first Metropolitan Opera House , five blocks to the north) by offering grand opera to

164-421: A comic opera that he wrote himself, Santa Maria (1896). While it was positively received by The New York Times , Hammerstein's personal experience was less than peaceful, with the production being plagued by cost overruns with the cast and scenery. In the end, Hammerstein cleared only one-tenth of the costs that were put into Santa Maria . Nine years later, Longacre Square was renamed Times Square , and

246-465: A US$ 15 million lawsuit against his former employers over unfair dismissal. Luke alleged that he had been unfairly dismissed by the network after he had raised concerns with the human resource division that his boss, Osman Mahmud, the Senior Vice-President of Broadcast Operations and Technology, discriminated against female employees and made anti-Semitic remarks. In response, Ehab Al Shihabi ,

328-576: A business plan and made faulty branding choices such as refusing to change the name "Al Jazeera". Stelter and Kludt also suggested that political issues could have played into the channel's demise. During the Bush administration, the President and other officials openly criticized Al Jazeera for airing messages from Al-Qaeda figures. This could have been part of the reason why Al Jazeera America struggled to get major pay-TV providers like Comcast and DirecTV to carry

410-644: A major renovation and reopened as a concert hall for popular musical acts. The Manhattan Center became a hot spot for " big band " dances as well as trade shows, union meetings and other social functions. WWE Raw recorded its inaugural episode at the Grand Ballroom on January 11, 1993. A special Raw 25th anniversary special was co-hosted with the Barclays Center on January 22, 2018. The Hammerstein Ballroom has hosted Extreme Championship Wrestling events in

492-438: A method of using suction to hold wrappers of cigars and cigarettes in place on a table, enabling them to hold down tobacco leaves firmly so the leaves could be cut more cleanly - before being wrapped around the cigar or cigarette. He became wealthy industrializing cigar manufacturing, and his tobacco fortune provided the money he used to pursue his theater interests. On 4 May 1920 he posthumously received Patent No. 1,338,768A for

574-517: A new building façade and a new Grand Ballroom on the seventh floor. In 1926, Warner Bros rented the ballroom to set up a studio for the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system to record the New York Philharmonic orchestra for the film Don Juan . That film marked the release of the inaugural commercial film featuring a recorded musical soundtrack. By 1939, the name of the building had been changed to

656-545: A new way to remove the mid-rib from tobacco leaves. Hammerstein built his first theater, the Harlem Opera House , on 125th Street in 1889, along with 50 housing developments. His second theater, the Columbus Theatre , was built in 1890 on the same street, and featured light theatrical productions. His third theater was the first Manhattan Opera House, built in 1893 on 34th Street. This failed as an opera house and

738-622: A period of 10 years. He accepted the offer and experimented with various other types of entertainment before ultimately selling the building. In March 1911, it was opened as a "combination" house by the Shubert brothers featuring vaudeville shows during the week and concerts on Sunday nights at affordable prices. In 1922, the Manhattan Opera House was purchased by the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry , who built

820-458: A rate far less than competing networks). Its three-hour morning program was to have a different format focusing on hard news and not "a group of anchors chatting on a couch". Al Jazeera America aired live programming at all hours, including half-hour news bulletins. Three Al Jazeera English programs that were based in Washington, The Stream , Inside Story and Fault Lines were included on

902-442: A senior Al Jazeera America's executive and former CBS news anchor, resigned from the company for undisclosed reasons amidst internal dissension with AJAM's management. On May 5, 2015, Al Jazeera Media Network demoted Al Shihabi to Chief Operations Officer (COO) of Al Jazeera America. He was demoted from CEO after a report from The New York Times of an altercation between him and host Ali Velshi where he attempted to fire and sue

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984-577: A short period of time. The New York Times conducted an interview with Hammerstein, and when the interviewer asked him about his financial habits, Hammerstein responded: Financially, I never undertake anything without plenty of ammunition. I am never afraid of being ambushed in this account. I decided that my preliminary contracts should be drawn up provisionally upon my success in securing the great stars. I always contemplated an honorable retreat. Hammerstein's high-quality productions were ultimately too expensive to sustain, and by his fourth opera season, he

1066-588: A three-month-long cruise to the United States, arriving in New York City in 1864. Hammerstein made ends meet initially by working at a cigar factory on Pearl Street. He worked his way up to become a cigar maker himself, and also founded the United States Tobacco Journal. Hammerstein would eventually become the owner of at least 80 patents, with most of them related to the machines he invented for

1148-464: A trip to Paris, a special cable was sent to him out of curiosity asking whether he wanted to quit opera in New York, given that during his 1909/1910 opera seasons in New York and Philadelphia, Hammerstein had failed in successfully maintaining audiences in his two venues in each city. He simply responded by saying, "[Opera in New York is] what I'm here for. I can't say anymore." With money obtained selling

1230-400: A typical day. Following the network's shutdown, Al Jazeera Media Network is planning on expanding its digital presence in the United States through ventures such as United States–based AJ+ . On February 11, 2016, writing in the television trade magazine, Broadcasting & Cable , industry pundit Joe Mohen proposed a provocative thesis that the business failure of Al Jazeera America

1312-535: Is Al Jazeera . News coverage began immediately afterward at 4:00 p.m. Al Jazeera America's website launched on August 8, 2013. On January 14, 2016, the Al Jazeera Media Network announced that it would shut down Al Jazeera America's pay-TV and online operations on April 30, 2016, citing plummeting oil prices and the highly competitive nature of the American media market; the channel's last day of operation

1394-603: Is located in the box at the bottom. In 2014, Al Jazeera America and producer Reed Lindsay won a Gracie Award in the "Outstanding Hard News Feature" category from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation for the story "Fists of Fury", which aired on America Tonight . The award was the first award ever for the channel. Al Jazeera America also won a Shorty Award for "Best News Twitter Account". The Al Jazeera America show Fault Lines won two Peabody Awards in 2013 for

1476-501: The National Journal ) to lead its investigation division. Josh Bernstein of Denver Fox affiliate KDVR was hired as the lead investigative reporter, along with Trevor Aaronson , an award-winning author and investigative journalist and the former co-founder and associate director of the nonprofit Florida Center for Investigative Reporting who served as the networks investigative digital reporter based in Washington, D.C. This

1558-694: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit via Al Jazeera Investigates called " The Dark Side: Secrets of the Sports Dopers ", which investigated professional athletes' alleged use of Performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), naming Peyton Manning and other prominent athletes as having received drugs from Charles Sly, a pharmacist who had worked at the Guyer Anti-Aging Clinic in Indianapolis during the fall of 2011. The Huffington Post leaked

1640-586: The Fault Lines episode "Deadly Force" won, "Broadcast television networks, cable networks and syndicators documentary or series of reports" where the documentary "Killing the Messenger" won, "Broadcast television networks, cable networks and syndicators coverage of a major news event" where they also held the top three places with their coverage of "The Downing of MH14" winning, "Broadcast television networks, cable networks and syndicators newscast" where their coverage of

1722-564: The Metropolitan Opera 's productions, opened an eighth theater, his second Manhattan Opera House , to directly (and successfully) compete with it. He also opened the Philadelphia Opera House in 1908, which, however, he sold early in 1910. He produced contemporary operas and presented the American premieres of Louise , Pelleas et Melisande , Elektra , Le jongleur de Notre-Dame , Thaïs , and Salome , as well as

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1804-661: The Pictures of the Year International competition. In April 2015, Al Jazeera America won 16 National Headliner Awards including seven first place wins in various categories including "Broadcast television networks, cable networks and syndicators environmental reporting " where It held all three top nomination spots with the Fault Lines episode "Water for Coal" winning overall, "Broadcast television networks, cable networks and syndicators investigative report" and "Best of TV" where

1886-645: The "Crisis in Yemen" and "ISIL on the Turkish Border" won and "online slideshow" for its digital team. While covering the Ferguson protests in 2014, officers from the Ferguson Police Department shot rubber bullets and tear gas at an AJAM news crew including correspondent Ash-har Quraishi , who after yelling, "We're the press" caused them to abandon their recording equipment and run to safety. The incident

1968-574: The Al Jazeera America website ceased operations. On March 27, 2016, CNN correspondents Brian Stelter and Tom Kludt wrote an in-depth analysis of Al Jazeera America's closure. Among the many reasons for the closure cited in the article were low viewership and falling oil prices. But the article also pointed to "deeper-rooted problems". These problems included poor decision making and management on behalf of Al Jazeera higher-ups – specifically CEO Ehab Al Shihabi. The article stated that they lacked

2050-587: The American debuts of Mary Garden and Luisa Tetrazzini . Since the star soprano Nellie Melba was disenchanted with the Metropolitan, she deserted it for Hammerstein's company, rescuing it financially with a successful season. He also produced the successful Victor Herbert operetta Naughty Marietta in 1910. Hammerstein became famous during his opera years for putting noticeably large budgets out for his productions, Santa Maria being one example. More often than not, he would fall into financial trouble within

2132-615: The Guyer Institute 35 times during 2011 and that he had received both medication and treatment from Guyer during this time. Sly recanted his story and requested the report not to be aired via a YouTube video following the release of the report. Sly later said he had never seen the Mannings and told ESPN's Chris Mortensen that he is not a pharmacist and was not at the Guyer Institute in 2011, as Al Jazeera claimed. However, state licensing records indicate that someone named "Charles David Sly"

2214-667: The Hammerstein Ballroom on January 23, 2022. Several seasons of NBC 's America's Got Talent were taped there. The Manhattan Center was home to Al Jazeera America 's main studio and production facilities. Oscar Hammerstein I Oscar Hammerstein I (8 May 1846 – 1 August 1919) was a German -born businessman, theater impresario , and composer in New York City . His passion for opera led him to open several opera houses, and he rekindled opera's popularity in America. He

2296-504: The Manhattan Center, now a multi purpose venue featuring a variety of different types of events. In 1986, Manhattan Center Studios was formed to develop the center into a venue with the capability of holding multimedia festivities. MCS expanded the audio recording facilities when Studio 4 was opened in 1993. Studio 7 was rebuilt in 1996 to become a state-of-the-art control room capable of servicing all types of recordings and live events in

2378-513: The New York public at lower ticket prices and with a superior orchestra and stage productions. Rapidly, it received critical acclaim and became a popular alternative to the Met, and many great operas and celebrated singers debuted at the new theater. In 1910, after the Metropolitan Opera felt it could no longer tolerate the competition, it offered Hammerstein $ 1.2 million to cease producing opera for

2460-469: The United States owing to agreements with the carriers of Al Jazeera America. Programs from Al Jazeera English not shown on Al Jazeera America (such as Empire and UpFront ) were some of the few unblocked during the time and therefore visible on Al Jazeera English's website . In September 2016, Al Jazeera English's online live stream and the programs which were blocked in the United States during Al Jazeera America's existence were officially un-geoblocked in

2542-572: The United States, making them viewable for the first time since 2013. It was announced that 60% of the channel's programming would be produced in America, while an additional 40% would come from Al Jazeera English . That was later changed to almost all of the channel's program content being sourced from the United States. In an interview with The New York Times , head of international operations Ehab Al Shihabi said Al Jazeera America's content would on most days primarily concern domestic affairs. However, Shihabi added, "Al Jazeera's seventy bureaus around

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2624-518: The Vaudeville team Weber and Fields, and the father of lyricist Dorothy Fields ), in 1904. Oscar Hammerstein went bankrupt in 1898 and his Olympia theater was sold at auction, but this didn't prevent him from simultaneously raising enough money to build the Victoria Theatre , which opened as a legitimate theater on March 3, 1899. On June 26, 1899, he opened a partially enclosed roof garden theater,

2706-616: The Venetian Terrace Garden, with an outdoor promenade that was attached to the roof garden of Hammerstein's Theatre Republic. In 1900 Hammerstein enlarged the roof garden theater and reopened it in May 1901 as the Paradise Roof Garden . Collectively, the multiple performance venues in the building were known simply as "Hammerstein's". He wrote a musical called Punch, Judy & Co. in 1903. In 1906, Hammerstein, dissatisfied with

2788-496: The aggregation of additional information, links, and photos about show topics on the website; "Video Genie", which enables viewers to leave video questions for the show 24–7; and Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest , and Reddit . It also hosted Google+ Hangouts and uses Skype rather than satellite feeds for nearly all guest interviews. Less hard-news orientated than Al Jazeera America's other shows, guests included everyone from civil rights group leaders to Kathy Griffin . On July 21, 2013,

2870-456: The air at 8:59 p.m. ET. Shortly afterwards, a slide was shown with the Al Jazeera logo above a simple message that read "Al Jazeera America is no longer available. Thank you for watching" with the network's English web address shown below it. During the time that Al Jazeera America was in existence, Al Jazeera English and AJE programs that were shown on Al Jazeera America were geoblocked in

2952-543: The area had become, through his efforts, a thriving theater district. Hammerstein built three more theaters there, the Victoria Theatre (1899), which turned to vaudeville presentation in 1904 and was managed by his son, Willie Hammerstein before closing in 1915; the Theatre Republic was built in 1900 and leased to eccentric producer David Belasco in 1901, and the Lew Fields Theatre for Lew Fields (half of

3034-459: The audience will join the conversation via social media. The first episode of the show highlighted the hunger strike and court-approved force-feeding in California's prison system. After the show's cancellation during a schedule re-do to raise ratings and lower costs Mora anchored the late news. The show was replaced by a similar program Third Rail . Kathy Davidov and Cynthia Kane were hired as

3116-448: The ballrooms. In March 1990, the company began investing in video equipment and studio facilities to expand into the video and television industry. The company's video post production facilities in Studio 9 were completed in 1993 and in the years that followed, two fully equipped television studios were built. Studio 1 was completed in 1994 and Studio 6 was completed in 1995. The connection of

3198-789: The building. Emma Hammerstein would go to court claiming ownership through Hammerstein Opera Company stock, but the stocks were found to be null and void by the judge. The Manhattan Opera House on 34th Street in New York City was renamed the " Hammerstein Ballroom " at the Manhattan Center Studios in his honor. Hammerstein's son Arthur developed Hammerstein's Theatre (now the Ed Sullivan Theater ) at 1697 Broadway in his father's honor. The theater opened on November 30, 1927. Hammerstein had four sons, Abe, Harold, Arthur , Willie and two daughters: Stella and Rose. Arthur continued

3280-434: The channel's top host. He was replaced by Al Anstey, the former managing director of Al Jazeera English . On June 11, 2015, Shannon High-Bassalik, AJAM's former senior vice president of programming and documentaries, filed a multi-million lawsuit against the channel; alleging a biased pro-Arab coverage and the mistreatment of employees. AJAM has responded that they would contest the lawsuit in court. On November 8, 2015, it

3362-403: The channel. On April 12, 2016, Al Jazeera America signed off for the final time; its final program to air on the network was a live three-hour retrospective film titled "Your Stories" that aired twice from 3PM until the shuttering. Antonio Mora and Richelle Carey, the first two anchors to appear on air when it launched August 20, 2013, were the last two anchors to appear as the network signed off

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3444-486: The cigar-making process. On 8 March 1881, Hammerstein received Patent No. 238,500 for his cigar-making machine. The initial machine sold for $ 6,000. Numerous improvements boosted its value to $ 200,000. Another of his inventions was a more efficient plumbing system after his kitchen sink sprang a leak. Hammerstein's best-known contribution to the cigar-making process was adding an air-suctioning component to cigar rollers. On 1 August 1882 he received Patent No. 261,849 for

3526-576: The company and chose to no longer pay for his daughters. Stella and Rose sought to fight against their father, who believed that they could support themselves on their own. Infamously, he compared paying his daughters to "the eccentricities and actions of the late lamented King Lear ." Hammerstein contracted kidney problems and paralysis , eventually permanently falling into a coma . He died in 1919 at Lenox Hill Hospital at Park Avenue and 77th Street in Manhattan . His contractual ban on presenting opera

3608-554: The company's distribution network to broadcast Al Jazeera America. Current TV, by coincidence, was formerly Newsworld International , an international news channel similar to Al Jazeera America run by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . 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. In addition, former CNN veteran David Doss

3690-417: The economy, government, education, healthcare and the environment, and include breaking news stories. The program also featured work by the Al Jazeera America investigative unit and covers stories in depth from across America, revealing new insights on the news of the day and breaking stories with its own original reporting. America Tonight also incorporated social media interaction on screen and off to reflect

3772-606: The episodes "Haiti in a Time of Cholera" and "Made in Bangladesh". The channel and Fault Lines also won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for "Made in Bangladesh". On September 30, 2014, Fault Lines won a News & Documentary Emmy Award in the Investigative Journalism News-magazine category for "Haiti in a Time of Cholera". In early 2015, Al Jazeera America's digital team was recognized with an Award of Excellence for Photo Editing Portfolio in

3854-548: The family business as an opera and Broadway producer, director, theater owner, and songwriter. Willie managed Oscar's Victoria Theatre, and Willie's son Oscar Hammerstein II was one of Broadway's most influential lyricists and bookwriters , as well as a director and producer. Al Jazeera America Al Jazeera America was an American pay television news channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network . The channel

3936-482: The fatal journey of three undocumented migrants who died attempting to cross into the United States. Borderland was the first such documentary series for the channel. A second one called The System focused on the U.S. prison system . The channel had a 16-person investigative unit and hired veteran National Headline Award-winning journalist Edward Pound (formerly of The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , USA Today , U.S. News & World Report and

4018-579: The head of Al Jazeera America, has announced that the network will contest the lawsuit in court. Mahmud has also denied Luke's charges and has alleged that Luke was a difficult employee. In an unrelated development, two female Al Jazeera America employees—Diana Lee, the Executive Vice-President for Human Resources, and Dawn Bridges, the Executive Vice President for Communications, had resigned that week. On May 4, 2015, Marcy McGinnis,

4100-445: The launch schedule, as well as The Frost Interview and Listening Post . The flagship nighttime show was called America Tonight . It was a weeknight news magazine that presented the day's news in Al Jazeera's long-form style with "stories that are not covered elsewhere". Al Jazeera America's original senior executive producer for news and special projects was Bob Wheelock, a former senior producer for ABC and NBC News. Wheelock left

4182-477: The network hired former Fox News, MSNBC, and Current TV veteran David Shuster to host a show during "the evening hours". Shuster became an analyst on the midday and evening news on the channel as well as a fill in host. It later hired Andrea Stone , most recently of The Huffington Post , and Tony Karon , most recently of Time , to manage both U.S. and global coverage for the channel's website and other digital platforms. The two were responsible for determining

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4264-469: The network shortly after the launch to head up a political campaign in Delaware. CNN chief business correspondent and the anchor of Your Money , Ali Velshi was the first major name to join Al Jazeera America. He hosted a daily, half-hour show originally called Real Money with Ali Velshi , (later called Ali Velshi on Target ). The show was originally going to be once a week until the end of 2013 when it

4346-438: The new operation. It planned to have a total of 800 employees at the channel's launch. Al Jazeera America also announced that the channel would employ well-known veteran journalists, anchors, and producers. On July 3, 2013, Ali Velshi confirmed that Al Jazeera America's launch would take place on August 20, 2013. The launch took place at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time on that date, with an hour-long preview special entitled This

4428-442: The overall editorial direction for the site and were based in New York City. On July 26, 2013, the network announced that former Good Morning America host and award-winning journalist Antonio Mora would host a current events talk show called Consider This , a program which showcased "hard-hitting interviews and panel discussions on issues important to American viewers". Consider This also featured interactive segments where

4510-436: The program via Twitter , Facebook , Google+ Hangouts and Skype . The show's social media team and second screen technology enabled viewers to engage 24 hours a day with new content, comments, user-generated videos and a variety of posts. The Stream relied heavily on a variety of online resources and social media tools to connect with people across the United States and around the world. This includes "Storify", which allowed

4592-603: The reports a day before Al Jazeera's publication. Then, Manning told ESPN 's Lisa Salters about the reports, despite the fact that the documentary had not yet been aired, in an interview on the morning of the 27th for ESPN Sunday NFL Countdown calling them "completely fabricated" and "garbage". He also expressed his anger that his wife, Ashley, had been mentioned in the documentary. Salters pointed to other cases in which athletes initially deny, and then eventually admit allegations, but Manning replied that he could not speak for others. Nevertheless, Manning also stated he had visited

4674-648: The senior executive producer and senior producer for its in-house documentary film unit. Davidov came from the National Geographic Channel , where she produced shows such as Border Wars and the Explorer special. Kane came from ITVS , where she managed over 150 projects and worked with the Sundance Channel . On April 13, 2014, the channel began showing Borderland , a documentary series on illegal immigration which follows six Americans as they retrace

4756-644: The sole booking rights to the Victoria Theatre, he built his eleventh and final theatre, the Lexington Opera House. Unable to present opera there, he opened it as a movie theatre, selling it shortly thereafter. On 28 April 1910, Hammerstein officially ended producing opera, opting to solely focus on dramatic productions. All of his contracts and buildings of operation were turned over to the Metropolitan Opera Company. Hammerstein's first wife

4838-514: The studios to the Ballrooms makes them attractive venues for live broadcast events and webcasts. Studio 1 and Studio 6 were temporarily closed throughout the Spring and Summer of 2003 to complete extensive upgrades as the company entered into a three-year contract with Atlantic Video, a Washington, D.C. –based television services and production company. Beginning in 1997, the Hammerstein Ballroom underwent

4920-614: The views of its American audience. On July 1, 2013, longtime CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien was hired to be a special correspondent for America Tonight , as well as a deal with her production company Starfish Media Group to produce long-form documentaries for Al Jazeera America. An American version of the popular Al Jazeera English program The Stream was originally featured on the channel. Produced from Al Jazeera's Washington, D.C. hub, and hosted by veteran journalist and former ABC News correspondent Lisa Fletcher . The show formatted to allow viewers to interact with Fletcher and her guests during

5002-408: The world will mean that we will have an unparalleled ability to report on important global stories that Americans are not seeing elsewhere. We will do that when it is warranted." Al Shihabi said that the channel would feature less political discussion and celebrity news and that news gathering would take priority over maximizing profits (the network was to air only six minutes of commercials per hour,

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5084-554: The years before its closing and in its revivals in 2005 and 2006. Since 2006, the Manhattan Center has played host to yearly Ring of Honor events, both in the Grand Ballroom and the Hammerstein Ballroom. In 2014, TNA taped multiple episodes of their Impact Wrestling TV program at the Grand Ballroom on June 25–27, and then again August 5–7 and in 2015 also held their debut on Destination America and taped upcoming episodes on January 7–9. Game Changer Wrestling held their first event at

5166-697: Was Rosa (Rose) Blau. After Rosa died, he married Melvina Jacobi, who was born in New York City. The marriage took place on 7 December 1879 in Montgomery, Alabama . Melvina's parents, Henrietta and Simon Jacobi, were Jews from Bavaria (possibly Grünstadt) who settled in New Orleans , Louisiana and, later, Montgomery, Alabama. Melvina and Oscar had two daughters – Rose and Estella ( Stella ). Late in his career, Hammerstein experienced numerous legal setbacks, most of them pertaining to ownership of his opera houses, which he endured stoically. One of his more infamous accusations

5248-533: 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. It was reported that Al Jazeera planned on shutting down Current TV, keeping its production staff and possibly some programs, and using

5330-497: Was caught on camera by KSDK-TV , a local NBC affiliate who was filming from across the street. An officer was captured on video turning the reporters' video camera toward the ground and dismantling their equipment. Other incidents, including the arrests of two print journalists for The Washington Post and The Huffington Post , also occurred during the same time period. On April 28, 2015, Matthew Luke, Al Jazeera America's former Supervisor of Media and Archive Management, filed

5412-511: Was due to expire in 1920; at his death, he was busy planning his return to the opera stage. He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx , New York City. A 1910 song by Jack Norworth entitled "For Months and Months and Months" mentions Hammerstein in its first stanza. The Manhattan Opera House was bid for $ 145,000 by Hammerstein's two daughters. They would also sue Hammerstein's third wife, Emma Swift Hammerstein, over money and ownership of

5494-449: Was fifteen years old. During his youth, Hammerstein's father wanted him to continue with his education and to specialize in subjects such as algebra , but Hammerstein wanted to pursue music. After Oscar went skating in a park one day, his father found out and whipped him as punishment, goading Hammerstein to flee his family. With the proceeds from the sale of his violin, Hammerstein purchased a ticket to Liverpool , from which he departed on

5576-671: Was from a Frances Lee, an opera singer, who accused him of preventing her from singing in the Manhattan Opera House after one performance. Hammerstein was found not guilty and settled his possible payment for up to $ 35. Hammerstein had given his two daughters, Stella and Rose Hammerstein, $ 200 a week for financial support after the death of his first wife. The payments were given to them by the Equitable Trust Company securely in exchange for stock shares in Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre. In 1912, Hammerstein requested his stocks back from

5658-723: Was going bankrupt. The costs at the Metropolitan, too, were skyrocketing, as the Metropolitan spent more and more in order to effectively compete. Hammerstein's son Arthur negotiated a payment of $ 1.2 million from the Metropolitan in exchange for an agreement not to produce grand opera in the United States for ten years. With this money, Hammerstein built his tenth theater, the London Opera House , in London, where he again entered competition with an established opera house, Covent Garden 's Royal Opera House . He had run through his money in two years and thereupon returned to America. During

5740-596: 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+ ). The channel

5822-558: Was hired on June 5, 2013, to be Al Jazeera America's first White House correspondent. In November 2013, Al Jazeera America hired Ray Suarez , formerly of PBS Newshour , to host Inside Story . Also airing at various times were the Al Jazeera English programs Earthrise , Al Jazeera World and Al Jazeera Correspondent along with shows brought in from other channels in the UK and Australia. A complete list of hosts and correspondents

5904-1032: Was in addition to the Al Jazeera Investigative Reporting Unit controlled by Al Jazeera English. Al Jazeera America was the first television national news outlet to report in-depth on the Flint water crisis on January 22, 2015. Al Jazeera America's news anchors included Randall Pinkston (formerly of CBS News ), John Seigenthaler (formerly of NBC News and WSMV in Nashville), Antonio Mora (formerly of ABC News), Richelle Carey (formerly of CNN and HLN), Jonathan Betz (formerly of WFAA in Dallas and WWL-TV in New Orleans), Tony Harris (formerly of sister station Al Jazeera English and CNN ), Del Walters (formerly of WJLA in Washington, D.C. and WMAR of Baltimore, MD) and Stephanie Sy . Mike Viqueira

5986-587: Was later confirmed to be April 12. It was also reported that this closure would lead to the loss of about 700 jobs. During its two-year history, Al Jazeera America won several media awards including the Peabody , Emmy , and Shorty Awards and citations from groups such as the National Association of Black Journalists and Native American Journalist Association . However, the network experienced low viewership ratings, averaging between 20,000 and 40,000 viewers on

6068-450: Was launched on August 20, 2013, to compete with CNN , HLN , MSNBC , Fox News , and in certain markets RT America . It was Al Jazeera's second entry into the U.S. television market, after the launch of beIN Sports 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". Al Jazeera America

6150-537: Was licensed as a pharmacy intern in Indiana from April 2010 to May 2013 and that his license expired May 1, 2013. Manning decided to respond to the further allegations against him, and hired former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer to manage the issue. He also threatened to sue Al Jazeera but then decided against doing so. On January 5, 2016, it was announced that Ryan Howard and Ryan Zimmerman had filed civil lawsuits suing Al Jazeera for defamation following

6232-436: Was named Vice President of News Programming and former CBS News executive Marcy McGinnis was named Vice President of News Gathering. Former MSNBC executive Shannon High-Bassalik was named Senior Vice President of Documentaries and Programs. Al Jazeera said it received more than 21,000 job applications for 400 positions at its U.S. network. Approximately 200 Current TV employees, including some 50 in editorial, were absorbed by

6314-560: Was only because it chose the wrong distribution channel, namely, subscription television. Mohen argued that by the time of Al Jazeera America's launch, the demographics of pay-TV news viewers in the United States market were people in their sixties whereas the natural audience of Al Jazeera was people under 34 years old; had the parent company instead launched the linear news channel as a Netflix-type app, with full online distribution, then it could have grown its audience using search and sold its commercials programmatically. On February 26, 2016,

6396-606: Was re-launched as a daily show. The channel also hired Kim Bondy , a former executive producer with CNN to produce its flagship news program America Tonight , a news magazine program that was hosted by original CNN International anchor and former CBS News correspondent Joie Chen , produced from Al Jazeera America's Newseum studio in Washington, D.C., and featuring correspondents Adam May , Lori Jane Gliha , former CBS , ABC and CBC news correspondent Sheila MacVicar and former Current TV correspondent Christof Putzel . The program presented in-depth segments each night on

6478-430: Was reported that Al Jazeera America's general counsel, David W. Harleston, did not have a license to practice law. Harleston had previously dealt with several lawsuits involving DirecTV and Al Gore , several wrongful termination cases by former employees, and the departure of the company's chief executive, Al Shihabi. On December 27, 2015, Al Jazeera English released a report, aired on Al Jazeera America, conducted by

6560-505: Was the grandfather of American playwright/lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II and the father of theater manager William Hammerstein and American producer Arthur Hammerstein . Oscar Hammerstein I was born in Stettin (capital of the province of Pomerania ), Kingdom of Prussia in present-day Szczecin, Poland , to German Jewish parents Abraham and Berthe Hammerstein. He took up the flute , piano, and violin at an early age. His mother died when he

6642-437: Was the sister channel of Al Jazeera's international English language news channel Al Jazeera English . 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. hub, and Al Jazeera America ran some of Al Jazeera English's programming and many of its live newscasts alongside its own. The creation of Al Jazeera America

6724-490: Was used, in partnership with Koster and Bial , to present variety shows. Hammerstein was displeased with the partnership to the point that it fell into bitterness: "When I get through with you, everybody will forget there ever was a Koster and Bial. I will build a house the likes of which has never been seen in the whole world." In 1895 he opened a fourth venue, the Olympia Theatre , on Longacre Square , where he presented

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