Sling TV offers another option, however: the AirTV series of over-the-air streamers. As any cord-cutter knows, local channels are also available by connecting an HD antenna to the back of your television. The Orange package offers no local channels, period. The Blue package has Fox and/or NBC in a handful of major cities but doesn't include any ABC or CBS stations. Sling stays inexpensive by eschewing most local channels. It's a condensed version of our complete list of the Top 100 channels offered by every service.
The channels in each vary depending on whether you have Blue or Orange, and some channels (like Animal Planet and Nickelodeon) are missing completely, but between its Extras and multiple base packages, Sling offers more ways to customize your channel lineup than any of its competitors.Ĭheck out the chart at the end of this article for all of the top 100 channels Sling's numerous services offer. You can pay $5 or $10 monthly for packages such as Sports Extra, Comedy Extra, Hollywood Extra, The Best of Spanish TV and more. Sling is also the only live TV service to offer a bunch of add-on channel packages. If you're already paying that much, then FuboTV ($65) or YouTube TV ($65) are better options as they offer way more channels (including locals) and improved DVRs. You can combine the two Blue and Orange services for $55 a month, but you're only getting five more "top" channels than Blue (though this does include ESPN and ESPN 2). It has more channels than Orange and allows up to three people to watch different streams at once, while Sling Orange only allows one stream at a time. Of the two $35 tiers, I believe Sling Blue offers the best deal for most people. Existing customers got to keep their $30 price until Aug.
In January this year, Sling TV increased the price on its two main packages from $30 to $35 while also increasing the DVR storage to 50 hours (up from 10).
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Meanwhile, more expensive alternatives such as Hulu Plus Live TV do offer local channels with no antenna required. While the company recently integrated local streaming startup LoCast into its program lineup the service has since been suspended.
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The biggest downside to both is that if you want a full slate of local channels - namely your local ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC stations - you'll have to augment Sling TV with an over-the-air antenna and even something like the $99 AirTV 2 DVR. Sling TV Blue is essentially the Fox and NBC option, while Sling Orange is the ESPN and Disney package. They share many of the same channels (like CNN, History and TNT) but others are exclusive to one or the other. Sling TV is different from rivals because it offers two main plans for the same $35 entry price: Sling Orange and Sling Blue.