Al Jazeera America has cut staff and pared programming as the Qatar-based satellite TV service seeks to expand its footprint here.
It has canned morning/4 pm news shows and the "Consider This With Anthony Mora" program at 11 am. Evening news has put pushed back an hour to 7 pm.
Newsfeed from Al Jazeera English is filling some of the content void.
"We are always looking at our scheduling calendar in order to offer our audience the most compelling news hours and programs," said AJA in a statement to this website. "Increasingly we're finding that viewers are coming us for in depth reporting and analysis of domestic and global news events and our goal is to offer that around the clock."
AJA dropped a half-dozen people from its payroll during December. "Less than 50" employees were laid off in 2014, an AJA spokesperson told O'Dwyer's.
She refrained from saying how many people work at AJA. "We don't disclose exact numbers," said the PR staffer, who declined to give a ballpark employment number.
AJA is said to be re-hiring some talent, advertising 80 job openings in New York, DC, Miami and Denver.
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