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.
Sling TV
Sling TV is an Internet-based streaming cable TV alternative owned by satellite TV company Dish Network. The company offers a handful of cable television channels delivered over the Internet, starting at $40 a month.
Sling TV also offers more than 300 free streaming content channels through the Sling Freestream brand.
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.
TiVo enters a crowded market with new streaming TV device
A new streaming TV device is launching in April from a household name recognized by television lovers for decades.
Dish-owned Sling TV loses subscribers for first time
Dish Network turned a profit last quarter despite losing subscribers of both its traditional satellite TV and online-only Sling TV services.
Sling TV raises prices for just the second time in its history
The Dish Network-owned live streaming service will now offer its slimmest package of pay TV networks for $30 a month, a $10 increase from its base price when it launched nearly five years ago.
Discovery chief executive says sports to blame for cable costs, carriage disputes
If you feel like you’re paying an absurd amount for cable or satellite, you can blame sports channels, says the boss of a network that has no sports channels.
Sling TV tops 2 million subscribers, could raise subscription price
Speculation of a price increase comes after parent company Dish Network missed revenue estimates for the recent financial quarter.
Sling TV to offer ABC local channels for $60 a year
Sling TV is adding ABC stations in eight markets to its streaming TV package — at a cost to customers of $60 per year.
Comcast refutes conspiracy over ‘banned’ Sling TV ads
A Comcast executive says the cable giant is not influencing NBC stations in blocking an ad campaign for Dish Network’s Sling TV service.
Sling accuses Comcast-owned stations of blocking its ads
Sling TV’s chief executive Roger Lynch said Comcast-owned NBC channels are refusing to air advertisements for the streaming TV service.
