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PJL
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Re: Al Jazeera Buys Al Gore's Current TV

said by Greg2600:

Verizon cannot drop a channel on the spot, it depends on when the contract is up.

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Not necessarily. The Time Warner contract had a clause that allowed dropping the channel if the channel's ownership changed, which is what happened. Verizon's contract may have a similar clause.

Time Warner didn't want to pay and charge their customers for a channel that had a free Internet feed, which Al Jazeera has, including Windows 8 and Android apps to access the live feed that work well (beyond web browser access).

bohratom
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said by PJL:

Not necessarily. The Time Warner contract had a clause that allowed dropping the channel if the channel's ownership changed, which is what happened. Verizon's contract may have a similar clause.

They also can sever a contract if the programming changes dramatically as it will in this case.
PJL
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said by bohratom:

said by PJL:

Not necessarily. The Time Warner contract had a clause that allowed dropping the channel if the channel's ownership changed, which is what happened. Verizon's contract may have a similar clause.

They also can sever a contract if the programming changes dramatically as it will in this case.

Again, it depends solely on the terms and conditions of the individual contract. A contract would define the specific conditions which allow a party to terminate the contract, and unless "dramatic program changes" is a clause (which I doubt it would be unless "dramatic" was clearly defined), then a "dramatic program change" wouldn't allow terminating the contract.