Warner Bros Discovery has followed Disney to law against Dish Network for its livestreaming service Sling TV offering limited-time programming packages.

The two media giants are suing for breach of contract, with Warners the latest to allege that Sling’s new Day, Week and Weekend passes violate programming agreements. The declining linear TV ecosystem depends on a “longstanding industry-standard model” of monthly subscription services, it said.

Dish distributes WB networks including TNT, CNN, TBS, HGTV, Investigation Discovery and Food Network to Sling TV subscribers and, WBD says, is hawking the channels to sell the slimmer passes.

“Programmers depend on monthly subscriptions to finance, acquire, develop, produce and program hundreds of different programs for their 24/7 network p

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