Cord Cutters News - Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 9:25 AM
Sling TV Is Keeping Costs Down By Skipping The Locals
Yesterday YouTube TV joined a growing list of live TV streaming services in
raising their rates. Over the last year PlayStation
Vue<http://www.PlayStationVue.com>,
fuboTV<https://www.fubo.tv/welcome?irad=343747&irmp=192976>, and now YouTube
TV<http://TV.YouTube.com> have all raised their rates.
So why the price hike? Well, in short, locals cost a lot of money and often the
second year of having a local costs more. Sources have told Cord Cutters News
that often a deal with a group of locals have a lower first year cost that
automatically goes up in the second year.
CBS’s CEO has also stated that streaming deals for services such as DIRECTV
NOW<http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-7945729-12789391> and PlayStation
Vue<http://www.PlayStationVue.com> are far more profitable than those with
traditional pay-TV providers.
“When a viewer switches from a traditional distributor to a streaming skinny
bundle, CBS’s fee doubles, he said. If they subscribe to CBS All Access, CBS’s
haul sometime triples. “OTT is a more profitable business model.”
Recently Sling TV has turned down deals with providers like
CBS<https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/report-cbs-not-coming-sling-tv-sling-tv-refuses-raise-prices/>
in an effort to keep their cost down.
As other services rush to add locals, it seems that Sling
TV<http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-7945729-12175633> has decided to skip the
high-cost locals in an effort to keep prices down. This plan may be a good fit
for Sling TV as they try to find their identity in a growing field of live TV
streaming services.
Recently Sling TV has been pushing antennas with deals for free antennas and
their own streaming players and network devices to add channels you get with an
antenna to your Sling TV account.
So far keeping the price down seems to be working for Sling
TV<http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-7945729-12175633> because they now have more
subscribers than any other live TV streaming service. The question now is will
cord cutters continue to embrace Sling TV’s low price point or jump ship for a
service with locals already included.
Just remember when you wish a service would add channels or locals remember
that means higher cost one that will likely be passed on to you the subscriber.
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