About Sling TV

Features, Price, Plans, Packages, Add-ons, Availability

What is Sling TV?

Sling TV is a cord-cutting service provider offering an expansive array of live cable channels and on-demand content available through their base channel packages with the option to fully customize your viewing experience with speciality add-ons. The popular over-the-top Internet TV service which was launched back in February 2015 evolved from the ethnic television service DishWorld by Dish Network.

Sling TV offers a flexible service that allows you to build your own package to suit unique viewing preferences. Packages start at $40 per month for the Sling Orange or Sling Blue. Both offer a good selection of major cable channels without contract obligations. The Sling TV subscription goes month to month until the user cancels or pauses their membership. The Sling TV service is available across most popular platforms for TV, web and mobile devices. The cost and flexibility of Sling TV makes it a very attractive OTT service for soccer and sports fans looking for alternative options to Cable and Satellite TV.

The live streaming service offers extensive programming from a varied selection of channels that have most of the soccer broadcasting rights in the USA for the top international and domestic leagues and competitions. Sling TV offers soccer fans live streaming of the major sports channels broadcasting soccer in the USA such as ESPN, FOX, beIN Sports and more. This live streaming service is restricted to subscribers located in the USA and operates similarly to Netflix or Hulu.

Sling TV Features

Sling TV offers an array of interactive and programming features to subscribers to improve the overall user viewing experience. Below is a list of the major features you should get familiar with if you subscribe to Sling TV.

Video on demand on Sling TV

Sling TV offers video on demand (VOD) content as well as catch-up programming on the channels available on the tiers subscribed to. The majority of the shows and movies available on Sling TV become available as on-demand content once it has been aired. The specific content and period that is available will vary based on the channel. The content is listed and search-able in the Available Now section below the schedule bar in the guide.

Content replay

Sling TV allows you to view replay content. To do this, select a channel in the Sling TV guide. Whatever content is available for replay will be listed in the schedule bar to the left of the On Now content. To stream the content, simply click on the episode you are interested in watching and then press OK.

Watch Sling TV Anywhere

Sling TV allows you to access the streaming service at home and away. Sling TV is available for you to watch on multiple devices, all you need to do is log on to the supported devices in order to access Sling TV remotely. As long as you have a good Internet / data connection, you are good to go! (You must be in the USA in order to access the Sling TV service)

Sling TV Watch list

Sling TV offers a cool tool to help you manage your viewing. The Watch list is a cool tool in order to flag what you want to watch at a later time. You can use the Watch list feature while you are browsing for content to watch. Once you find something that is interesting, you can click on the title to learn more about the content. You can then save the content title to your Watch list by clicking Save. By saving these titles, you are adding them to your Watch list. The Watch list can be accessed by expanding the contextual menu on the top left corner of your viewing screen. To watch the content, simply click on the title in the Watch list.

Closed Captioning

Sling TV offers Closed Captioning of the live and on-demand programming available on most of the channels on the subscribed tiers. To view the closed captions, just locate the Closed Caption icon CC on the top right of the viewing area. You can enable and disable the captioning with a simple click.

Navigating the Sling TV Guide

Sling TV offers a viewing guide which you can access by selecting GUIDE from the menu icon on the top left corner of your viewing screen.
The guide will list channels by icon, the current schedule, and Available Now content.  You can see all the channels you subscribe to in the channel bar. Below the top channel bar is the current schedule for each channel.  You can now scroll to the right to see upcoming programming content, or to the left to view programming that has already aired. Content that is Available Now will be displayed below the current schedule.

Filtering Channels

The category feature on the guide will help you narrow the available programing by theme. By using this search option, you can easily identify desired content such as sports or kid specific categories. To access the Filter Channel feature, launch your full Sling TV guide, then scroll to the left to the start of your channel bar. You can click on All Channels and all categories available within your subscribed package will display on your channel bar. To filter the the channels or content, simply select the category you desire. You can now navigate through your filtered channels to see available content for the current day.

Parental Control

Sling TV also offers Parental Controls on its service. This feature requires that you create an unique 4-digit pin which will be your password to restrict content.
The feature can be activated by enabling the Parental Controls box. To unlock selected content you must enter you four digit pin. To turn Parental Controls on or off, you will need to do this in the SETTINGS page.

Sling TV Device Compatibility

Sling TV supports a wide variety of viewing devices ioncluding most TV platforms, Mobile and Phone devices, Computers and Gaming Consoles.

How much does Sling TV cost?

The cost of viewing on Sling TV varies depending on the package(s) and add-ons you choose. You can start watching Sling for only $40 per month with either the Sling Orange or Sling Blue package, which offer you more mainstream sports channels from Fox and ESPN Networks (See package contents below). With Sling TV you can build up your viewing package by adding a multitude of additional channels through specialty channel add-on bundles or with single channel packs like Showtime, Vix+, Starz etc. The cost of the add-on packages vary based on the offering and start at $6 and up.

Try Sling TV before you buy.

Sling TV offers a free subscription for viewing Live TV with no requirements for credit card. You can take Sling for a spin to see how you like the interface and service while streaming over 100 live TV channels thousands of On-Demand movies & shows.