Dish’s new Sling TV service has been dubbed as a cord-cutters dream. It finally gives non-cable subscribers the ability to tune into ESPN and other premium channels for just $20 a monthly, but the company just revealed its new channel packages that will nearly double your monthly deal.
Sling TV opened up early access to users today and announced that along with the channels that come in the standard $20 Sling TV package, Sling TV will also offer three other additional channel packages priced at an extra $5 per month a piece. The extras include more channels for sports fans, kids, and the news.
Sling TV is offering the first subscribers a free 7-day trial period with access to the $20 per month “Best of Live TV” package that includes ESPN, ESPN 2, TNT, TBS, the Food Network, HGTV, Travel Channel, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, ABC Family, and CNN.
For an extra $15 here’s what else you can get:
More News
Goodies for the Kids
Sports Galore
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
25 responses to “Sling TV opens early access and reveals pricing for extra channel packages”
Until AMC is on board, this isn’t an option for me. I need my Walking Dead fix.
“Sling TV opened up early access to users today”
Pardon? It’s still showing as invite only, unless you’re talking about the people who were invited having access now, in which case nevermind.
This is no better than regular cable.
My thoughts exactly, matter of fact, it’s exactly the same
It’s not the same at all. Sure it’s a “cable/satellite” company but I’m not locked into a contract. I’m not paying for channels I don’t want. There’s no clunky box under my television. There’s no satellite dish stuck on my roof. I can cancel at any time. I can resubscribe again at anytime. I can watch my favorite shows anywhere I have an internet connection – even on the go. I don’t have to have some inept technician come out in a van a week later to fix it if it’s broken. Oh, and it’s considerably less expensive. Sure, you can have it only on one device at a time but I live alone so it’s perfect!
It’s a great option for whose who want to “cut the cable” and only pay for the channels they want. Anyone who says it’s “exactly the same as satellite or cable” just because the parent company happens to be a satellite company is just naive.
I suppose you’re right, but you can’t deny the irony
I get all the sports i want now for $25 a month with no contracts with sling. I was paying over $60 a month with satellite.
All while still paying a cable (or should I say satellite) company, just for a much lower price.
You still have to pay for the internet.
Which he was already paying for anyway and doesn’t factor in.
It factors in since with cable they provide the connection.
It still comes out cheaper with this because you were still paying for Internet before. That’s why it doesn’t factor. Let’s say Joe’s ISP charges $40 for Internet:
Internet+satellite=$40+60=$100/month
Internet+Sling=$40+25=$65/month
So Joe still saves $35/month and gets all he wants without the 100+ other channels he doesn’t care for. Which could’ve been figured out with basic math from the beginning.
I wish I could get internet for 40 dollars.
I’m paying $45 through Time Warner for 20Mbps service.
I would be more interested if I could pick the channels I want. This is just an extension of the same old cable crap everyone already hates. 20 bucks for barely any good channels and the $5 dollar packages upsell.
This clearly isn’t for you. This service is for those of us who don’t want cable but want to be able to watch live sports. This package is a fantastic deal for the market it is geared toward.
True, I care nothing for sports, and I have a good idea that most of that 20 bucks is going for ESPN. I wonder how many more channels could have been added if it wasn’t for ESPN and their greed.
Plus if everyone overloads the ESPN feed, expect lots of downtime during peek hours. Not worth it.
*Not worth it for me.
Fixed it for ya!
Yet another service not supported by Apple TV. When football season rolls around, I’ll be junking my Apple TV for a Roku if this and Amazon Prime aren’t available.
It’ll come eventually. No way they would leave it out at this point. They just have to put together an Apple TV app.
about like dish and cable. one half of the chan. may be of interest
The thing with this is that it’s not really meant to be a replacement for cable, at least not in my opinion. It just doesn’t have the line up for that. There are a lot of people that only have cable for sports and news (not local). I would like to see a few more channels added (AMC, FX for example), but for now it’s cool. Apple will lhave it’s own service, and Sony has the Playstation Vue in the works with a lot more channels than what Sling is offereing. It’s a new era that we are branching into, but I don’t see cable or satellite companies losing much sleep over this, not right now. Hell I’ve also heard mention of HBO venturing in to this with a subscription service that does not require a cable/sat provider. Anway…I’ve been enjoying my trial, and will keep it until I’m tired of it. Trust me, it has it pros and cons lol.
No f*ck!ing way am I going to subsidize all these damn sports channels.
You’re not the market for this package then. Those that want live sports without getting cable are who this is being marketed at.
I want to drop cable because I pay for sports channels and kids channels I don’t watch. How is this any different? In a year ESPN will whine and cry and then raise the fees and the rice will go up.
Let me pick the 5 channels I watch and NOTHING ELSE.