SlingTV And The Streaming Wars -- November 26, 2022

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Streaming: link here. Streaming wars.

From CNET years ago:

The five: AT&T TV, FuboTV, Hulu Plus Live TV, Sling TV, and YouTube TV. How did CNET rate them. It appears the panel did not want to upset any of the companies. Depending on which metric was being compared, each of the five won out in one category or another.

• I was not surprised to see YouTube TV come out on top overall. I don't subscribe to YouTube TV but I've always had a hunch that You Tube TV would be the best.
  
• Hulu, which I do use, is either as good as YouTube TV or a close second; long term, Hulu will have a huge challenge fending off YouTube TV
• FuboTV? I bet it's gone or absorbed by another streaming company within five years
• AT&T TV: I have no idea. CNET says AT&T TV is best for channel flippers and sports fans. It also also allows up to 20 devices to stream simultaneously where the others allow only three (or two in come cases) devices to stream simultaneously on one account; think about that -- on one account, twenty devices can be used simultaneously.
• Sling TV: it will have to change drastically (and when it does, it will have to double its subscription price) to survive. 

I thought Sling TV was dead but I see a lot of Sling TV advertising during college football games as we come to the end of the 2023 season. At 2.2 million subscribers for the past several years, the numbers pale in comparison to YouTube, Disney+, and Hulu. DISH doesn't have anything other than Sling, so it's doubtful DISH would sell Sling, but what should they do?