| Service | Price/mo | Has Bravo? |
|---|---|---|
| Philo | $25.00 | No |
| Sling Blue | $45.99 | Yes |
| Sling Orange | $45.99 | No |
| 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.
This is the most important thing to know about Bravo right now, and it's not a small footnote: on November 21, 2025, NBCUniversal pulled Bravo off Fubo entirely, along with NBC, Telemundo, USA Network, E!, and Syfy, after the two companies failed to agree on new carriage terms. That blackout hit roughly 1.6 million Fubo subscribers and ran for about seven months, not a few days. Fubo said publicly that it objected to NBCUniversal's pricing demands and to a multi-year bundling requirement that would have forced non-sports channels onto a sports-focused service. NBCUniversal held firm. Neither side blinked until June 2026.
Telemundo and Universo came back first, on June 10, 2026. NBC, Bravo, and the rest of the English-language lineup followed over the next several weeks as the new deal rolled out tier by tier. By July 2026, Fubo had confirmed the full restoration, and Bravo is carried again on every English-language Fubo plan. The catch: the new carriage agreement raised Fubo's price by $15/mo across its plans, moving the entry-level Essential tier to roughly $89/mo, up from the low-$80s it had held during the blackout period. Fubo said the increase covers both an $11/mo discount it had been giving subscribers while the NBCUniversal channels were dark and roughly $4/mo in new carriage fees. If you cancelled Fubo last winter specifically because Bravo disappeared, it's back, but you'll pay more for it than you did before the dispute started.
Outside of the Fubo story, Bravo's carriage is actually one of the simpler patterns on this site once you know the one rule: Bravo lives on Sling Blue, never Sling Orange. Sling Orange is built around a single-stream ESPN-and-Disney bundle; Sling Blue is built around general entertainment and the NBCUniversal-adjacent cable channels, which is why USA Network, FX, and Syfy sit next to Bravo on that side of the split rather than the other. The two plans cost the same, $45.99/mo, so there's no price penalty for picking the right one, only a real risk of picking the wrong one if you assume "Sling" means the same lineup either way.
If Bravo is the one channel you're building a plan around, Sling Blue at $45.99/mo is the cheapest way to get it and the answer stops there. If you also want ESPN or another Orange-exclusive channel, you'd need both Sling tiers together, which runs $60.99-$65.99/mo depending on current bundle pricing, or you step up to one of the full-lineup services instead, all of which carry Bravo without the Orange/Blue split to think about at all.
A free antenna will never carry Bravo, no matter how strong your signal is or how close you live to the broadcast towers. It's a cable-only network with no over-the-air spectrum presence at any price, from any provider, full stop. What an antenna does get you free in most markets: ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, and The CW, plus whatever local subchannels your market carries. None of that is Bravo or anything close to its reality-TV programming, so an antenna is not a substitute here, only a companion for the local-news side of your lineup.
If you're pairing Sling Blue's $45.99/mo plan with an antenna to also cover local news and network primetime, see how antennas actually work for the indoor/attic/roof distinction and the distance caveats before you buy one. And check thefull monthly cost comparison to see how a Sling-plus-antenna setup stacks up against a typical cable bill.
Sling Blue at $45.99/mo is a strong pick if Bravo sits alongside other general-entertainment viewing in your household and you don't also need ESPN, since that's the one thing Blue can't give you. It skips the Orange-exclusive sports package entirely, by design, which is exactly why it can hold the same $45.99/mo price as Orange while covering a broader general-entertainment lineup instead of a sports-heavy one.
If your household also wants ESPN or a full local-news lineup, the full-lineup services (YouTube TV, DirecTV Stream, Hulu + Live TV, and now Fubo again) cover Bravo alongside everything else for $82.99-$89.99/mo. Given the recent price hike, Fubo is no longer the cheapest of that group, and if sports coverage isn't a priority, YouTube TV or DirecTV Stream at $82.99/mo covers the same Bravo carriage for less. Check the rest of your household's must-have channels against our channel finder before deciding, since Bravo rarely stands alone as the single deciding factor in which plan to buy.
Bravo's carriage pattern lines up closely with USA Network, both live on Sling Blue and skip Sling Orange and Philo entirely, which makes sense given both sit in the same NBCUniversal-adjacent general-entertainment bucket. It's a different story than a channel like MTV, which Philo does carry, or Discovery Channel and Food Network, both of which are carried on every plan checked here with no exceptions at all. Bravo's pattern is narrower: exactly one budget path (Sling Blue), no Philo option at any price, and, as of this year, a real carriage-dispute history on one of the full-lineup services that's worth knowing before you sign up.
That's worth knowing if you're comparing several channels at once to decide on a plan. A household that wants Bravo plus USA Network, for example, is fully covered by Sling Blue's $45.99/mo plan for both, no full-lineup upgrade needed. A household that wants Bravo plus MTV needs to be more careful: Philo carries MTV but not Bravo, so Sling Blue is still the only budget-tier plan that covers both together. And a household still weighing Fubo specifically because of the NBCUniversal blackout should know the channels are back, at a higher price, before assuming Fubo is still the deal it used to be.