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).