{"id":2223664,"date":"2026-01-06T01:13:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2223664"},"modified":"2026-01-06T01:13:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:13:03","slug":"dish-network-countersues-disney-espn-in-sling-tv-sling-pass-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/dish-network-countersues-disney-espn-in-sling-tv-sling-pass-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Dish Network Countersues Disney, ESPN in Sling TV Sling Pass Fight"},"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> has countersued Disney and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0470966\/\">ESPN<\/a>, alleging that the media giant is using it market dominance to crush competition and stifle innovation, violating antitrust laws and breaching its contract with the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0937710\/\">pay TV<\/a> operator, after it filed a lawsuit over <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0798103\/\">Sling TV<\/a>\u2019s Sling Passes.<\/p>\n<p>Sling debuted the passes in mid-August, and the mini-bundles offer access to the streaming service\u2019s full bundle for a set period of time: one day, weekend, or a full week. The mini-bundles begin at $4.99 \u2014 and a full Sling subscription is $45\/month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSling TV\u2019s new offerings, which they made available without our knowledge or consent, violate the terms of our existing license agreement,&#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 has countersued Disney and ESPN, alleging that the media giant is using it market dominance to crush competition and stifle innovation, violating antitrust laws and breaching its contract with the pay TV operator, after it filed a lawsuit over Sling TV\u2019s Sling Passes. Sling debuted the passes in mid-August, and the mini-bundles offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2223665,"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-2223664","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-Network-Countersues-Disney-ESPN-in-Sling-TV-Sling-Pass.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223664","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=2223664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223666,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223664\/revisions\/2223666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}