Tag: Sling TV
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So Why Are So Few Local Channels Available Through Streaming Services? We Explain
The release of Hulu’s live TV service raised a major question among cord cutters. Many cord cutters had expected that because Hulu’s owners include ABC, FOX, and NBC they would be getting their locals through Hulu’s new live TV beta. So we wanted to sit down and take a look at why services such as…
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Updated: Hulu vs Sling vs DIRECTV NOW vs PlayStation Vue, vs YouTube TV We Break Them Down For You
With the help of many readers we have made some updates to this post. Thank you to everyone who helped CCN create this guide. Finding the right live TV streaming service is increasingly confusing as more and more services hit the market. Even in just the month since we last updated we posted there have been several…
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Sling TV Has 3x the Number of Subscribers as Its Competitors
It seems things are going well over at Sling TV. The live TV streaming service is currently the oldest and has a huge lead over its main competitors PlayStation Vue and DIRECTV NOW. According to a principle analyst at Frost & Sullivan, Sling TV has 1.3 million subscribers as of the first quarter 2017. It…
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Sling TV Refocuses Themselves as A La Carte TV
It seems Sling TV has big plans to become the A La Carte TV option for cord cutters. Today Sling TV re-branded their service and released a new website all focusing on picking the content you want. “As we expected, competitors are coming out of the woodwork. However, we didn’t expect that they’d drag three key pieces…
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Sling TV Teams Up With American Express To Offer a Special Deal
Want to save some money on your Sling TV subscription? Do you have an American Express card? If so, you could save some money. Once again American Express is offering $5 off Sling TV if you pay with an American Express card. Now this will only work one time, but $5 is a month of…
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Sling TV is Giving Away FREE HBO
Been thinking about giving HBO a try? Today may be your lucky day, because all Sling TV subscribers have free access to HBO and all of the HBO On-Demand content! Starting today and running till Sunday night April 23rd 2017. You’ll have access to the weekend’s hottest shows, including the newest episodes of Silicon Valley…
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Sling TV Adds Support For More Devices
Sling TV today became the first live and on-demand OTT service available on LG Smart TVs. Sling TV now supports most 2016 webOS 3.0 Smart TV models, and will be available on LG’s 2017 webOS 3.5 enabled-models in the coming months. More details from sling TV: Easily add Sling TV to your LG Smart TV…
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Sling TV Had a Very Successful March Madness (As They Show Us How They Can Keep Prices So Low)
Fans were not the only ones enjoying March Madness. Sling TV seemed to be getting into the mood with a surprising uptick in ad sales. Sling TV uses a program called programmatic advertising, which saw a huge increase in sales for Sling TV during March Madness. What is programmatic advertising? This type of advertising allows…
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Are Sling TV, DIRECTV NOW, and PlayStation Vue Going to Turn into Evil Cable 2.0?
Yesterday we talked about what it means to be a cord cutter, and if you can be a cord cutter and still subscribe to services such as Sling TV and DIRECTV NOW. That kicked off a conversation about how long it will be before we see services such as Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, and DIRECTV…
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So Is Sling TV & DIRECTV NOW Really Cord Cutting? Let’s Take a Look…
Ever since Sling TV launched 2 years ago a debate has been going on among cord cutters. Can you really be a cord cutter if you pay for a service that is owned by a cable company. At the core of this argument is a question of what is cord cutting and who are cord…