| Service | Price/mo | Has VH1? |
|---|---|---|
| Philo | $25.00 | Yes |
| Sling Blue | $45.99 | No |
| 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.
Most of the Sling gaps documented on this site are a tier question: one plan carries the channel, the other doesn't, same price either way. VH1 doesn't work that way. Checked against Sling's own channel and add-on pages on 2026-08-08, VH1 isn't in the base lineup on Sling Orange or Sling Blue. It's only reachable through the separate Lifestyle Extra add-on, a $6.00/mo genre pack that works on top of either base plan and brings the total to $51.99/mo.
Our sqlite data layer had this wrong before this check: Sling Blue was marked as carrying VH1 in the base plan, the same kind of stale-data bug caught and corrected on several other channel pages on this site. It's now corrected to reflect that neither tier includes VH1 without the add-on.
That makes the real household question "is the $6.00/mo Lifestyle Extra add-on worth it," not "which Sling tier do I need." Our MTV pageand Paramount Network page share that exact same add-on framing, not a tier question either.
Several channels on this site, including MSNBCand CNBC, lost Fubo carriage when Comcast spun its cable networks off into a separate company, Versant, effective January 2026. VH1 isn't one of them. VH1 belongs to Paramount Skydance, the same parent asMTV, Comedy Central, and BET, all already covered on this site, so the Versant spinoff never touched it. As of 2026-07-19, we found no open carriage dispute affecting VH1 on any of the seven services checked here.
That leaves exactly one real decision point for VH1: the Sling add-on question above. Every other service either carries it plainly or doesn't carry it at all, with no dispute or plan-tier asterisk to track.
VH1 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 four carrying services stack up against a typical cable bill before you commit to one.
Philo at $25.00/mo is the straightforward pick if VH1 sits alongside other general-entertainment and reality-TV 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 is leaning toward Sling for other channels, know upfront that VH1 adds $6.00/mo on top of either tier rather than riding along for free. YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, DirecTV Stream, and Fubo all carry VH1 in their base plan already, at $82.99-$89.99/mo, if one of those already covers more of your household's other must-have channels. Check the rest of your list against our channel finderbefore deciding, since VH1 alone rarely settles which plan makes sense for a whole household.
VH1, MTV, Comedy Central, and BET all share the same parent company, Paramount Skydance, but their Sling carriage stories split into two shapes, not one. BET and Comedy Central are carried on both Sling Orange and Sling Blue at the base $45.99/mo price, no exceptions. VH1 and MTV are the outliers: neither tier carries either one in the base plan, and the only way onto Sling at all is a separate $6.00/mo add-on (VH1's Lifestyle Extra, MTV's Entertainment Extra).
A household weighing VH1 against its three sibling channels should plan around that add-on rather than assume shared ownership means shared carriage. If VH1, MTV, Comedy Central, and BET are all on the household's list, Sling Blue (or Orange) plus both add-ons covers all four for $57.99/mo. Philo, YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, DirecTV Stream, and Fubo all carry every one of the four without any add-on at all.
A fifth Paramount Skydance channel, Paramount Network, shares this exact add-on-only shape too: neither Sling tier carries it in the base plan, and it needs its own separate $6.00/mo add-on (Entertainment Extra, the same bundle MTV uses) on either tier. VH1, MTV, and Paramount Network are the reminder that "add-on only, on both tiers" is now its own recurring pattern on this site, not a one-off.