{"id":87469,"date":"2010-02-18T18:50:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T10:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/directv-loses-bid-to-halt-dish-networks-ads-it-calls-false\/"},"modified":"2010-02-18T18:50:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T10:50:45","slug":"directv-loses-bid-to-halt-dish-networks-ads-it-calls-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/directv-loses-bid-to-halt-dish-networks-ads-it-calls-false\/","title":{"rendered":"DirecTV Loses Bid to Halt Dish Network\u2019s Ads It Calls False"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[02-18-10] A <strong>DirecTV<\/strong> injunction to temporarily halt <strong>Dish Network<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cWhy Pay More\u201d TV advertising campaign has been rejected by the <strong>U.S. District Court of Manhattan<\/strong>, N.Y., Dish Network announced Feb. 17.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The ad, which claims that Dish Network charges $24 less per month for the same services as DirecTV, began airing Feb. 8.<br \/>\nDistrict Judge Paul Crotty denied DirecTV\u2019s request but left the door open for DirecTV to appeal. \u201cGiven that there is more than one reasonable interpretation of the \u2018Why Pay More\u2019 ad, the court cannot conclude,\u201d Crotty said in the ruling.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DirecTV said it would continue its legal against its U.S. pay-TV competitor. \u201cWe are pleased that the court invited DirecTV to present evidence at a full hearing to demonstrate that Dish\u2019s advertising campaign is deceptive. We will vigorously pursue our lawsuit to prevent Dish Network from attempting to lure customers away from DirecTV through its blatantly misleading advertising campaign,\u201d DirecTV Spokesman Jon Gieselman said in a statement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[02-18-10] A DirecTV injunction to temporarily halt Dish Network\u2019s \u201cWhy Pay More\u201d TV advertising campaign has been rejected by the U.S. District Court of Manhattan, N.Y., Dish Network announced Feb. 17. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The ad, which claims that Dish Network charges $24 less per month for the same services as DirecTV, began airing Feb. 8. District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}