Sling TV’s $5 pass buys you one day of cable TV
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Sling TV’s $5 pass buys you one day of cable TV
Sling TV’s new flexible live TV deals are great for dodging subscriptions and should be the future of streaming services
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By Amelia Schwanke published August 13, 2025
Forget streaming bundles and subscriptions, flexible passes are here
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By Amelia Schwanke published August 13, 2025
Forget streaming bundles and subscriptions, flexible passes are here
I hope Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and others copy Sling TV’s new flexible one-off deals – it’s the best cure for subscription fatigue
But the studios overlooked that streaming was more convenient than cable, as Netflix beamed images directly onto viewers’ laptops—and, soon enough, televisions and smartphones—with no annual contracts, cancelable at any time. Above all, there were no ads
Will Tavlin • Casual Viewing
A recent TiVo report found that the average TV watcher subscribes to as many as seven streaming services, and that 84% of them wanted some way to browse and search it all in one place.