{"id":2010009,"date":"2025-09-09T22:34:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2010009"},"modified":"2025-09-09T22:34:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:34:28","slug":"warner-bros-discovery-sues-sling-tv-alleges-short-term-day-pass-violates-licensing-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/warner-bros-discovery-sues-sling-tv-alleges-short-term-day-pass-violates-licensing-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Sling TV, Alleges Short-Term \u2018Day Pass\u2019 Violates Licensing Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0026840\/\">Warner Bros.<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0132346\/\">Discovery<\/a> has sued <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0798103\/\">Sling TV<\/a> over its unprecedented short-term packages that don\u2019t require a subscription, which the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0180486\/\">Dish Network<\/a> offshoot offered in late August \u2013 just as the football season was kicking off.<\/p>\n<p>The federal breach-of-contract lawsuit, filed Tuesday in New York, alleges the starting-at-$4.99 packages \u2013 good for one day, a weekend or one-week spans \u2013 violated their licensing agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Disney filed a similar lawsuit against <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0936218\/\">Dish<\/a> late last month, accusing the Sling TV parent of presenting the \u201cday pass\u201d offering without warning or consultation. Both suits seek unspecified damages and an order to block further short-term package offerings, which bypass traditional, month-to-month subscription models.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSling TV\u2019s new offerings,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros. Discovery has sued Sling TV over its unprecedented short-term packages that don\u2019t require a subscription, which the Dish Network offshoot offered in late August \u2013 just as the football season was kicking off. The federal breach-of-contract lawsuit, filed Tuesday in New York, alleges the starting-at-$4.99 packages \u2013 good for one day, a weekend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2010010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2010009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Warner-Bros-Discovery-Sues-Sling-TV-Alleges-Short-Term-\u2018Day-Pass.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}