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Sling will add some ABC stations, roll out additional price hike

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Sling TV will add live feeds of eight ABC-owned stations to its streaming service in March, a move that will also include a price increase for some customers.

On March 1, customers in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Fresno, Houston, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Raleigh-Durham will be able to access the live feed of their local ABC station when they subscribe to either Sling Blue or a combined Sling Orange-Sling Blue package.



Accordingly, the price of Sling Blue will increase to $45 a month for customers who live in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco. The combined Sling Orange-Sling Blue will also adjust to $60 a month. Sling Blue subscribers will not get ABC feeds at all.

The new channels coming to Sling TV’s Blue package and the combined Orange-Blue package are:



  • WABC (Channel 7) in New York City
  • KABC (Channel 7) in Los Angeles
  • WLS-TV (Channel 7) in Chicago
  • WPVI (Channel 6) in Philadelphia
  • KGO-TV (Channel 7) in San Francisco
  • KTRK (Channel 13) in Houston
  • WTVD (Channel 11) in Raleigh-Durham
  • KFSN (Channel 30) in Fresno

It wasn’t clear whether customers in the other three cities will also see a price adjustment in the future. Sling originally carried the ABC-owned stations in a “Broadcast Extra” package shortly after the service launched; the package was discontinued in 2018.

Unlike other streaming services, Sling TV mostly limits live feeds of local stations to owned-and-operated outlets. It already carries a handful of Fox- and NBC-owned local stations in a limited number of markets.

The addition of ABC-owned feeds comes a few months after Sling and its parent company, Dish Network, inked a new carriage agreement with the Walt Disney Company for its cable channels, including ESPN, the Disney Channel, FX and National Geographic. The new carriage deal eventually came with a price increase across its base packages.

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article said the new ABC live feeds were coming to the Sling Orange package. A Dish spokesperson later clarified the channels will be added to Sling Blue.

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Matthew Keys is a nationally-recognized, award-winning journalist who has covered the business of media, technology, radio and television for more than 11 years. He is the publisher of The Desk and contributes to Know Techie, Digital Content Next and StreamTV Insider. He previously worked for Thomson Reuters, the Walt Disney Company, McNaughton Newspapers and Tribune Broadcasting.
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