Dish’s Sling TV Drops Price of One-Day Streaming Pass to $1 to ‘Celebrate’ Win in Disney Lawsuit

[Scott Greczkowski]

This one is interesting... It appears DISH won the lawsuit from Disney in the one day streaming packages they are now offering on Sling TV.

What makes this more interesting is I do believe DISH and DISNEY are close to the end of their contract together. This win for DISH could complicate those negotiations with DISNEY and as we have seen with Youtube TV over the past few weeks, DISNEY has no problem pulling their signals from viewing eyes.

Whats your thoughts on this?

Dish’s Sling TV Drops Price of One-Day Streaming Pass to $1 to ‘Celebrate’ Win in Disney Lawsuit

Dish's Sling TV cut the price of its Day Pass to $1 after a federal judge denied Disney's preliminary request to block its short-term streaming plans.

variety.com

 

[telstar_1]

I think it's paywalled.

From what I could glean before it blanked out, it seems that DiSH's contract with Disney is very loosey-goosey about what constitutes a "subscriber" and allows for even someone not registered with Sling and only watching sling's free content to be considered a subscriber. And apparently, just guessing, it doesn't define any minimum term of subscription (such as monthly). So they can offer 1-day subs.

Just guessing that maybe this could become a sticking point in next negotiations if Disney tries to set a minimum subscription length >1 day.

 

[zippyfrog]

What makes this more interesting is I do believe DISH and DISNEY are close to the end of their contract together. This win for DISH could complicate those negotiations with DISNEY and as we have seen with Youtube TV over the past few weeks, DISNEY has no problem pulling their signals from viewing eyes.

Dish’s Sling TV Drops Price of One-Day Streaming Pass to $1 to ‘Celebrate’ Win in Disney Lawsuit

Dish's Sling TV cut the price of its Day Pass to $1 after a federal judge denied Disney's preliminary request to block its short-term streaming plans.

variety.com

Exactly. I mentioned this quote in the other thread:

Judge Subramanian noted the solution for Disney is to negotiate a new license that forbids the short term passes. "As the parties agreed at oral argument, that negotiation is around the corner, given that the License expires in less than a year and everyone agrees that the next round of negotiations will need to commence soon."

Could be very interesting negotiating for Dish/Disney. But it might be like the Hopper and the ad-skipping where there is some language in the contract that doesn't make as flexible as Dish wanted but it a meeting point somewhere in the middle.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Another article.

Judge denies Disney injunction against Dish over ESPN inclusion in Sling Orange

A judge denied Disney's request for an injunction in its lawsuit against Dish, meaning the legal fight over Sling Orange will continue.

awfulannouncing.com