Dish’s Low-Cost Online TV Service Leaves Room for Profit
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Dish Network Corp.’s $20-a-month Sling TV service will provide 12 cable channels that typically cost pay-TV providers about $12 a month, leaving the satellite company some room to profit on the new, low-priced product.
Dish, the third-largest pay-TV provider, with 14 million subscribers, unveiled the much-anticipated Internet service at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday. The product targets younger consumers who don’t already subscribe to pay TV, which can include hundreds of channels and costs an average of $84 a month at Englewood, Colorado-based Dish.