Variety: Dish Network’s Sling TV over-the-top service now has nearly 250,000 subscribers — but the company dropped more higher-paying satellite TV customers than that over the first half of 2015. The company said net pay-TV subscribers declined 81,000 in the second quarter, compared with a loss of 44,000 in Q2 of 2014. For the first time, Dish included Sling TV subscribers in reporting overall pay-TV metrics for the second quarter. It had 13.932 million total TV subs as of June 30. According to Dish, Sling TV had 169,000 subscribers at the end of the first quarter.