📚 Sling TV updates its listings — and increases its pricing

The base plans are bumping to $30 a month; Extras are going up, too. You knew it had to happen at some point. Sling TV — the most popular live TV streaming service in the United States and the one that most closely gets you a true a la carte service — is increasing its rates. It's also bolstering its base listings with more channels and offering more cloud storage. But the price increases come first. Here's what's up. And it gets a little complicated. The two base plans — Sling Orange and Sling Blue — are now $30 a month if you purchase one or the other. That's a $5 increase. (They're still $20 a month for the first month.) If you purchase both together, it'll now cost you $45 a month — up from $40 a month. The Sports Extra is increasing by $5 a month to $15 if you have both Sling Orange and Sling Blue. But if you only have one of the base plans, Sports Extra still costs $10 a month. The "4 Extras" deal now weighs in at $12 ... ...