Dish Rolls Out Variety of Skinny Bundle Channel Packages

Dish Network is rolling out a personalized skinny bundle offering, Flex Pack, with eight separate packages of channels that would come atop its $39.99 per month core package, it said in a news release Thursday. Dish said Flex Pack is designed to let customers add and subtract the eight themed channel packs monthly, with their prices ranging from $4 to $10 per month. "Flex Pack provides a level of flexibility and control that brings our customers closer to the ideal of fully tailoring their channel lineup," said Warren Schlichting, executive vice president-marketing, programming and media sales. The themed channel packs include a $10 monthly Locals Pack featuring CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox and Univision, a $6 monthly Variety Pack that includes Investigation Discovery, Lifetime Movie Network, Freeform, Bravo, BET and Crime & Investigation, and a $10 monthly National Action Pack of ESPN, ESPN2, FS1, Velocity, AXS TV, Fuse, TV Games Network, TVG2 and Universal HD, Dish said.