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Sling TV is an American over-the-top internet television service that is owned by Dish Network.

Unveiled on January 5, 2015, at the Consumer Electronics Show, the service aims to complement subscription video on demand services for cord cutters, offering a selection of major cable channels that can be streamed through smart TVs, digital media players and apps.

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider.

The verb "to stream" refers to the process of delivering or obtaining media in this manner; the term refers to the delivery method of the medium, rather than the medium itself, and is an alternative to file downloading, a process in which the end-user obtains the entire file for the content before watching or listening to it.

ITV2, is a 24-hour, free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc.

It was launched on 7 December 1998 and is available digitally via satellite, cable, IPTV and terrestrial (Freeview) platforms.

For a number of years, it had the largest audience share after the five analogue terrestrial stations, a claim now held by its sister service ITV3 both of which are freely available to a majority of households.

Pay television, subscription television, premium television, or premium channels are subscription-based television services, usually provided by both analog and digital cable and satellite television, but also increasingly via digital terrestrial and internet television.

Subscription television began in the multi-channel transition and transitioned into the post-network era.

Some parts of the world, notably in France and the United States, have also offered encrypted analog terrestrial signals available for subscription.

W (formerly Watch) is a general entertainment channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as part of the UKTV network.

The channel launched on 7 October 2008 on satellite through Sky, Virgin Media, Smallworld Cable, BT TV, TalkTalk TV, and TVPlayer (When subscribed to TVPlayer Plus).

On 15 February 2016, the channel was rebranded as W.