{"id":2223535,"date":"2026-01-05T22:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2223535"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:55:22","slug":"dish-countersues-disney-and-espn-over-sling-tv-short-term-subscription-passes-alleging-antitrust-violations-and-breach-of-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dish-countersues-disney-and-espn-over-sling-tv-short-term-subscription-passes-alleging-antitrust-violations-and-breach-of-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Dish Countersues Disney and ESPN Over Sling TV Short-Term Subscription Passes, Alleging Antitrust Violations and Breach of Contract"},"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\/co0180486\/\">Dish Network<\/a> is firing back at Disney and Epsn in a legal dispute over its launch of limited-time passes for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0798103\/\">Sling TV<\/a> \u2014 with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0936218\/\">Dish<\/a> alleging that the media giant is violating antitrust laws to squelch competition and has breached the terms of its contract with Dish.<\/p>\n<p>Dish filed federal antitrust and breach of contract counterclaims against the Walt Disney Co. and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0470966\/\">ESPN<\/a> on Friday, Jan. 2, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.<\/p>\n<p>That came in response to Disney\u2019s lawsuit against Dish over Sling TV\u2019s Sling Passes (which include one-day, three-day and one-week&#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>Dish Network is firing back at Disney and Epsn in a legal dispute over its launch of limited-time passes for Sling TV \u2014 with Dish alleging that the media giant is violating antitrust laws to squelch competition and has breached the terms of its contract with Dish. Dish filed federal antitrust and breach of contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2223536,"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-2223535","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\/2026\/01\/Dish-Countersues-Disney-and-ESPN-Over-Sling-TV-Short-Term-Subscription.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223535","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=2223535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223537,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223535\/revisions\/2223537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}