Getting your player ready...
Sling TV wasn’t kidding when it said more announcements were coming back in January when Dish Network unveiled the new online TV service.
Today, it’s a deal with , which has a library of more than 2,000 movies (“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “Transformers: Age of Extinction” are cited as examples). EPIX is the between Viacom, Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Lionsgate. So, think of the movies!
EPIX movies will be offered “on-demand in an add-on package” for Sling TV customers. No launch date or price was announced.
Separately, Dish announced that it reached a multi-year deal with EPIX to offer the channels — EPIX, EPIX2, EPIX3 and EPIX Drive-In — to its satellite TV customers.
Earlier stories:
- February 2, 2015:
- January 26, 2015:
- January 5, 2015:
