Dish customers lose access to Cox Media-owned local stations
Customers in 10 metropolitan areas lose access to more than a dozen local networks over business dealings.
Dish Network
Dish Network is a direct-to-home satellite television company. It operates Dish Network satellite TV, streaming service Sling TV and the wireless phone company Boost Mobile. The company is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.
Sling TV launches on Comcast’s Flex platform
Dish Network’s streaming cable television alternative service Sling TV is now available on Comcast’s Xfinity Flex platform.
Amazon adds YouTube TV, Sling to live TV section
The cable streaming alternatives join several other services, including Philo and Pluto TV, on Amazon’s live TV guide
Sling TV offers price lock guarantee for new and existing customers
Dish Network offers price-lock guarantees to lure cable customers to its satellite service. Now it’s using the same tactic for Sling TV.
Rising price of streaming alternatives to cable could be boon for Sling
As competing streaming services like YouTube TV and Fubo TV raise their base price, customers could be lured back to Dish Network’s Sling TV.
With Boost acquisition, Dish Network is now a mobile phone company
Dish acquired the Boost brand from Sprint after the fourth-largest wireless carrier merged with T-Mobile.
AT&T executive reiterates company’s desire to sell DirecTV
An AT&T executive reiterated his company’s desire to offload satellite pay TV service DirecTV less than five years after the telecommunications giant acquired the service.
Sling TV to get new AMC add-on packages
Dish Network’s Sling TV has reached a new deal with programmer AMC Networks covering six linear channels as well as a handful of new on-demand add-on options.
Regional Fox Sports networks probably aren’t coming back to Dish anytime soon
Dish’s chairman said the company was able to save money by dropping 16 Fox-branded RSNs last year.
Dish chairman: Merger with DirecTV “probably inevitable”
Dish Network’s chairman said it’s likely inevitable that his company and AT&T’s DirecTV would merge in the future.