| Service | Price/mo | Has BET? |
|---|---|---|
| Philo | $25.00 | Yes |
| Sling Blue | $45.99 | Yes |
| Sling Orange | $45.99 | Yes |
| DirecTV Stream | $82.99 | Yes |
| YouTube TV | $82.99 | Yes |
| Fubo | $89.00 | Yes |
| Hulu + Live TV | $89.99 | Yes |
Prices and lineups as of 2026-07-19. Verify on the provider's own page before you sign up; carriage and pricing change often and can vary by zip code.
When we first checked BET against our data, Sling Orange was marked as a gap, carried on Sling Blue but not Orange. Re-checking Sling's own channel page for BET on 2026-08-04 showed that wasn't right: BET is listed in the Sling Orange base lineup alongside ESPN, A&E, and Comedy Central, and it's also in the Sling Blue lineup at the identical $45.99/mo price. We corrected the record rather than publish the old, wrong answer. If you already have either Sling plan, you don't need to switch or add anything to get BET.
That's a different story than MTV, another Paramount-owned channel, where Sling Orange genuinely does skip the channel and only Sling Blue carries it. Same parent company, same price, different answer, which is exactly why we check each channel against each plan instead of assuming ownership predicts carriage.
BET+ is a separate subscription streaming app for original movies and series, not the live cable channel this page covers. Paramount Skydance bought out Tyler Perry's stake in BET+ and is shutting the standalone app down, folding its library into Paramount+ under a dedicated BET-branded hub, with the shutdown expected to be complete by mid-August 2026. None of that touches the live BET channel or its carriage on any of the seven services listed above. If a headline about "BET going away" crosses your feed, it's about the on-demand app, not the channel you'd watch on YouTube TV or Sling.
Several channels on this site, including MSNBCand CNBC, lost Fubo carriage in late 2025 when Comcast spun its cable networks off into a separate company, Versant, effective January 2026. BET isn't one of them. BET belongs to Paramount Skydance, not Comcast or Versant, so the Versant spinoff never touched it. As of 2026-07-19, we found no open carriage dispute or add-on-tier change affecting BET on any of the seven services checked here.
That makes BET one of the simpler entries on this site: no split plan tier, no missing service, no recent dispute to track. The only real decision is which of the seven services makes sense for your household's full channel list, not whether BET specifically is reachable.
BET itself will never be free over the air; it's a cable-only network with no broadcast-spectrum presence, at any price, from any provider. If your household also wants local news or network primetime, pairing Philo's $25.00/mo plan with a one-time antenna purchase is a common way to fill that gap cheaply. Seehow antennas actually work for the indoor/attic/roof distinction before you buy one.
Check the full monthly cost comparison to see how Philo and the other six services stack up against a typical cable bill before you commit to one.
Philo at $25.00/mo is the straightforward pick if BET sits alongside other general-entertainment and lifestyle viewing in your household, the mix Philo was built around. It skips live sports, 24-hour cable news, and every ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX/PBS local affiliate by design, which is why it can charge a third of what the full-lineup services cost.
If your household also wants ESPN, local news, or network primetime, Philo alone won't cover that and BET alone shouldn't be the reason to overpay for a bigger plan you don't otherwise need. Sling Orange or Sling Blue, both $45.99/mo, add a broader lineup while still carrying BET. YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, DirecTV Stream, and Fubo cover everything at once in the $82.99-$89.99/mo range. Check the rest of your household's must-have channels against our channel finder before deciding, since a channel that's carried everywhere, like BET, is rarely the deciding factor in which plan to buy.
BET's carriage record is close to Comedy Central's: both are carried on every plan we checked, Sling Orange and Sling Blue included, with no add-on tier and no missing service. MTV is the outlier of the three Paramount channels on this site, since Sling Orange skips it while Sling Blue keeps it.
A household weighing BET against MTV should plan around that one exception rather than assume the two channels behave the same way just because they share a parent company. If BET, Comedy Central, and MTV are all on the household's list, the safe pick between the two Sling plans is Sling Blue, since it's the only one of the two that covers all three.