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Dish’s Sling Seen Passing 1 Million Users in Cord-Cutting Race

The milestone puts Sling TV ahead of Time Warner Inc.’s HBO Now in total subscribers, according to Brett Sappington, an analyst with Parks Associates, which bases its information on consumer surveys and mobile data. Dish has never disclosed Sling’s subscriber number and spokesman Bob Toevs declined to comment. Bloomberg Intelligence estimates Sling had 671,000 subscribers at the end of June.

From the article "Dish’s Sling Seen Passing 1 Million Users in Cord-Cutting Race" by Scott Moritz.

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