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At over four years old Sling TV is the oldest live TV streaming service offering the original "skinny bundle". They offer a Blue and Orange bundle along with a core group of 27 channels. The blue and orange bundle together costs $40 while individually they are $25 apiece, but right now they are discounted for three months to $25 and $15 apiece.
National Geographic Channel ------ The Walt Disney Company
... ORANGE OPTION
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MotorTrend ------ Motor Trend Group
ACC Atlantic Coast Conference ------ The Walt Disney Company
Disney Channel ------ The Walt Disney Company
ESPN ------ The Walt Disney Company
ESPN2 ------ The Walt Disney Company
ESPN3 ------ The Walt Disney Company
Freeform ------ The Walt Disney Company
The ORANGE bundle was meant to isolate the Walt Disney company channels in case the corporation exercised their contractual right to leave Sling. Now Disney has complicated the plan by buying four major channels from FOX networks.
But with the massive discount for three months to entice new customers, one has to wonder how long this business relationship can go on. With Disney now becoming 60% owner of Hulu, and new streaming services owned by individual companies abounding, how long can this "skinny bundle" uniting channels of rival companies continue to operate.
Sling is often known as a cheap way to see sports as nobody else offers ESPN for as low as $25. The BLUE option also has a lot of sports options including regional sports networks. It is missing some news channel favorites like FOX NEWS, FOX BUSINESS NEWS, and MSNBC plus the broadcast channel CBS.
Slingtv is owned by Dish Network. It's not in any sort of danger of failure anytime soon. It's their fall-back to recapture some customers leaving their higher priced satellite service. It's meant to be cut-rate.
One of the best things Charlie Ergen has come up with, and very successful so far.
If anything it is taking off. People are cutting the cord and starting to stream. Almost everyone I know in our area has Sling TV if they are not cable.
Sling is great for us. My husband is a sporadic sports-watcher so the channels he wants to see are constantly changing, and we love how we can switch from Orange to Blue and back again in a matter of minutes, with no extra fee or penalty.
I just joined Sling for a specific regional sport network (the YES network) so I can watch the Yankees. I don't really care about the other channels as I don't watch much cable or even network TV anymore (trashy, mindless reality TV shows are a turn off).
At over four years old Sling TV is the oldest live TV streaming service offering the original "skinny bundle". They offer a Blue and Orange bundle along with a core group of 27 channels. The blue and orange bundle together costs $40 while individually they are $25 apiece, but right now they are discounted for three months to $25 and $15 apiece.
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The ORANGE bundle was meant to isolate the Walt Disney company channels in case the corporation exercised their contractual right to leave Sling. Now Disney has complicated the plan by buying four major channels from FOX networks.
But with the massive discount for three months to entice new customers, one has to wonder how long this business relationship can go on. With Disney now becoming 60% owner of Hulu, and new streaming services owned by individual companies abounding, how long can this "skinny bundle" uniting channels of rival companies continue to operate.
Sling is often known as a cheap way to see sports as nobody else offers ESPN for as low as $25. The BLUE option also has a lot of sports options including regional sports networks. It is missing some news channel favorites like FOX NEWS, FOX BUSINESS NEWS, and MSNBC plus the broadcast channel CBS.
One can subscribe to ESPN+ for $5.99 per month.
Granted you don’t get access to everything but still lots of live content.
Personally, I don’t think that SlingTV is in any danger of failing but the market is definitely starting to saturate so time will tell.
Slingtv is owned by Dish Network. It's not in any sort of danger of failure anytime soon. It's their fall-back to recapture some customers leaving their higher priced satellite service. It's meant to be cut-rate.
Right. When the FCC mandated service without hardware requirement, the two satellite 'cable' providers were perfectly positioned to redirect their uplink feed into an internet one with the least amount of effort. So they got there first.
It will be interesting to see how this market shakes out, especially as Comcast/Xfinity is now there.
OTOH, I was greatly dismayed when the growing a la carte offerings in streaming were abruptly short-circuited by the entry of these bundle providers, back to the shell game of charging too much for packages stuffed with channels no one much wants anyway.
If anything it is taking off. People are cutting the cord and starting to stream. Almost everyone I know in our area has Sling TV if they are not cable.
But that is my point, that streaming is taking off. Rather than rely on Dish network, to stream your product, media companies are starting their own services where there own channels dominate.
For example, ATT&T Watch TV, features their own nine channels prominently and then round it with small company offerings. That way they don't make money for other major media companies.
CNN --------- AT&T
HLN --------- AT&T
TBS --------- AT&T
TCM --------- AT&T
TNT --------- AT&T
truTV --------- AT&T
Audience --------- AT&T
Boomerang --------- AT&T
Cartoon Network --------- AT&T
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Hallmark Channel --------- Crown Media
Hallmark Movies and Mysteries --------- Crown Media
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I just joined Sling for a specific regional sport network (the YES network) so I can watch the Yankees. I don't really care about the other channels as I don't watch much cable or even network TV anymore (trashy, mindless reality TV shows are a turn off).
And in the aborted world of individual streaming, you could could have subscribed to only that sports coverage. But the cable "packaging" model is so profitable that it couldn't help but short-circuit the viewer/consumer-friendly model.
But such a bargain - 40-50-60 channels for your $50 a month!
Sling is great for us. My husband is a sporadic sports-watcher so the channels he wants to see are constantly changing, and we love how we can switch from Orange to Blue and back again in a matter of minutes, with no extra fee or penalty.
I didn't know you could do that! The college football team I follow usually has games on ESPN, Fox Sports, and CBS Sports which are on different plans, so I thought I had to sub to both plans. Can I really just switch plans every week to see all the games?
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