Dish Network’s Sling TV Has More Than 600,000 Subscribers

[bluegras]

Dish Network Corp.’s Sling TV streaming service has more than 600,000 subscribers, according to people briefed on the numbers, shedding some light on consumer appetite for cheaper packages of live channels

http://www.wsj.com/articles/dish-networks-sling-tv-has-more-than-600-000-subscribers-1455825689

Allen bluegras

 

[bluegras]

While Sling TV has yet to take off the way Dish might have hoped it would, it seems that the company was wise not to keep all of its eggs in the satellite TV basket. Although its subscriber numbers have continued to fall, its Sling TV subscriber base is growing.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-t...n-2015/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Allen bluegras

 

[DRCars]

Can't read entire article without sign-in or subscription.

DRCars

 

[MikeD-C05]

Funny, that Sling Tv has 600,000 subs and they add those sub counts in with DISH Satellite sub count and DISH still lost 81,000 subs .

 

[Bruce]

Funny, that Sling Tv has 600,000 subs and they add those sub counts in with DISH Satellite sub count and DISH still lost 81,000 subs .

Actually that means Dish lost 681,000 subs since the Sling subs are added in.

 

[MikeD-C05]

Actually that means Dish lost 681,000 subs since the Sling subs are added in.

Well the DISH Satellite company would of lost up to 600,000. I think that Sling Tv is the only reason they aren't showing the losses more. That is why Charlie is saying that DBS is a mature and declining service.

 

[bluegras]

Dish Network's (NASDAQ: DISH) Sling TV has not only become a powerful driver of its own company's corporate earnings sheet, but the broader pay-TV industry, as well.

http://www.fiercecable.com/story/an...pay-tv-industry-artificially-black/2016-02-25

allen bluegras

 

[bluegras]

Sling TV made its debut in January of last year, and it's quickly grown to 500,000 to 600,000 subscribers. The over-the-top streaming television service from DISH Network(NASDAQISH) offers about two dozen channels for $20. DISH decided to lump its Sling TV customers in with its regular satellite TV subscribers despite the huge disparity in average billing per customer. Even so, DISH lost 81,000 net subscribers last year.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/02/29/sling-tv-is-cannibalizing-dish-network.aspx

 

[Ronnie-]

Merged a few of the one/two response threads already started that are dealing with the same topic.