Sling TV, the third largest live TV streaming service in the United States with about 2.5 million paid subscriptions, has shut down its Russia Today channel following a military invasion of Russia into Ukraine. Parent company Dish confirmed with Digital Trends on Friday afternoon. The same is true for the media carrier’s satellite arm, the dish. It’s not clear when RT America was unavailable, but it was still being streamed on Sling TV as of Wednesday, March 2. The channel was unavailable on the afternoon of March 4th.
CNN reported Thursday that RT America had virtually stopped production, fired most employees, and effectively spelled out the death of a news channel that couldn’t continue to rerun successfully in the current crisis. .. It effectively makes channel deletion meaningless, at least not a bit symbolically.
Sling TV and Dish are the latest in a relatively steady corporate march that robs President Vladimir Putin of anything that could be considered an army of the Kremlin after invading the armed forces in Ukraine last February. is. Roku removed the RT channel at the beginning of the week, and DirecTV (also with satellite and streaming operations) also removed the channel this week.
Currently a private Roku channel, RT America does not keep its affiliation secret and calls it a “Russia-related channel”. It’s unclear how many subscribers
RT America had on Sling TV. It wasn’t part of the base plan and was instead only available as a 6-month add-on to the SlingNews Extra package bundled with BBC World News, News Nation, NewsMax, HLN, Weather Nation and EuroNews. Science, News 18, CGTN and Law and Crime.