Viacom (NYSE: VIA) has a new carriage deal with the DISH Network, avoiding any of those pesky late-night staredowns like the one it had with Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Cable on New Year’s Eve. More interesting, perhaps, is the deal finally signed with sibling EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) to distribute content…

Sling Media today announced a major shake-up that sees co-founders Blake and Jason Krikorian as well as senior leadership in its Sling Entertainment division leaving. Some highlights are below and the rest is on our Sling Media channel. —Signs Of Life For Sling’s Video Portal, Other Services; Sling.com Starts Limited…

Little more than a year after Sling Media’s sale to EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS), the co-founders and the top team at Sling Entertainment are leaving the company, paidContent.org has learned. The news is being broken to staff in meetings going on now. Departing are brothers Blake and Jason Krikorian, respectively CEO…

Earlier this month I spoke to Blake Krikorian, the CEO of TV placeshifting company Sling Media, about what life is like as part of Echostar (NSDQ: SATS), a year after the company got acquired for $380 million. The company launched a beta of its new video portal Sling.com today, and…

Sling Media, the place- and time-shifting device company that is now owned by Echostar (NSDQ: SATS), is launching something that seems counter-intuitive on the face of it: a free, ad-supported online video portal aggregating video from various professional sources like TV networks, studios and other independents. Sling.com will launch as…

Nearly two years after Sling Media announced it had a video portal and the Clip+Sling video sharing in development, the services are finally nearing release. First up, a private beta of the Sling.com video portal started today, although not private enough since TechCrunch has the invite. At the core, it’s…

Now that its online programming is ready to go, Warner Brothers Television Group has lined up a roster of distribution partners: Dailymotion, Joost, Sling Media, TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) and Veoh Networks. The sites will create dedicated channels for programming from TheWB.com and KidsWB.com, the two new ad-supported broadband properties WBTVG…

Yes, it is true, this game of well, name-changing: Satellite TV operator EchoStar (NSDQ: DISH) Communications is changing its name to the DISH Network Corporation. In a filing with the SEC, EchoStar said the name change reflects the focus of the company, which is preparing to spin off its technology…

Details are emerging on EchoStar’s (NSDQ: DISH) proposed spinoff of its technology and infrastructure business, including the recently acquired Sling Media, whose financials are available for the first time. From an SEC filing late last week including information on the new EchoStar Holding Corporation: —Sling Media: In 2006, Sling’s revenue…

EchoStar Communications (NSDQ: SATS), which just last night announced plans to acquire Sling Media, said this morning it will explore a possible split into two publicly traded companies, one focusing on its consumer pay-TV business DISH Network and the other on its technology and infrastructure businesses. I suggested last night…

Sling Media’s history in links, in reverse chronological order: (see the acquisition story) —Sling Media To Stream NFL Games For DirecTV—Sling Signs First Deal With League; NHL To Allow Clipping, Sharing—MLB Swings At Sling—And Misses—Sling Media To Launch Its Internet To TV Video Device/Service SlingCatcher—Sling Media Forms Media Entertainment Group;…

This just in ... EchoStar is acquiring Sling Media in a cash-and-options transaction valued at approximately $380 million. The deal announced late Monday evening, is subject to the usual closing conditions; it is expected to close in the fourth quarter. The sale came together quickly, according to a person familiar…

Place-shifting TV provider Sling Media has tied up with DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) to give the satellite company’s users (not SlingBox users) access to National Football League games, NTV reported. Online streams of NFL games will be available every Sunday…this is DirecTV’s Supercast streaming service, and is available to Directv NFL…

I could only hint at this the other day when I was writing about MLB’s issues with the Slingbox. Sling Media has its first deal with a professional sports league—the NHL (the CBS (NYSE: CBS) of sports in terms of experimenting digitally) will take part in its Clip+Sling feature for…

For more than a year, we’ve been hearing threats to sue Sling Media over its place-shifting technology—and we’ve been hearing execs in sports and entertainment rave about their own Slings. So far no lawsuits and even the threats had died down. At the start of the ‘06-‘07 season, NHL Commissioner…

There have been speculation on this service ever since the company filed some patents earlier last year, and at CES next week, Sling Media will announce its official plans for SlingCatcher, a reverse Internet-to-TV service, extending from its earlier TV-to-Internet video enabling services. Jason Hirschhorn, who recently joined as president…

Sling Media, the TV place shifting company (retails Slingbox, which allows people to watch cable and satellite TV on their laptops or phones while away from home) has formed what it calls a media entertainment group, and has appointed two NYC-based digital media veterans to head it: Jason Hirschhorn and…

Our European correspondent Peggy Anne Saltz has the details on a batch of deals announced today as 3 Group unveiled its mobile broadband service X-Series. One standout: Sling Media’s first announced major mobile deal—others are in the pipeline in Europe and, as Sling CEO Blake Krikorian said last week, in…

This is the first season in my lifetime that KMOX radio isn’t the home of the St. Louis Cardinals, which explains why the CBS-owned station feels comfortable advertising the Slingbox as a way to keep up with baseball games from the road. When place shifting came up during a Digital…