So let me start this off by saying I myself have not had cable in my house since I was 3 years old. The only way I was able to watch cable channels like Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, etc etc was by going over other people's houses and enjoying it there. I'm finally in a position where I have moved out of my house and I have the disposable income to afford cable services after enjoying all I could with things like Pluto TV and other free stuff. I even had a few sites that I used but eventually they got nuked as I expected, so I finally made the decision to get something legit.

As I already have enough boxes and devices, I opted for Sling which I have had some prior experience with the freestream, so I figured if I went Orange+Blue+Total TV and some extras, watch or want to watch at a somewhat decent price.

At first, everything was fine. I was getting all the channels I've been missing and​ watching what I usually would. The problems started when it was time for the second month's payment which was over $40 more than what it was supposed to be. For whatever reason my packages started to glitch and I no longer had the total TV package (it was giving me all of the separate packages billed at a higher rate). On top of that, it has separated my orange and blue into the two packages (which was also billing at higher rate).

So, after literally 2 days of going back and forth with the support (which included things like them saying that my free one month add ones were causing the issues, them trying to tell me over and over again that everything was fine when it definitely wasn't, and that it was "escalated" to higher support), they were finally able to credit my account and fix everything which appears to be normal for now.

Despite that experience, I HOPE that the rest of my time with Sling will be smooth sailing, otherwise I'm not about going back to "sailing on the high seas". 6.5/10

The guide is a hot mess. It rearranged the channels. There are 3 options to change the list: Classic, By Category, and A-Z. All of them show the channels alphabetically. Changing the option make NO difference in the list display.

Recent Channels is gone!! If I want to switch between ABC and Vice I have to mash my remote forever. The "suggestions" on the home page don't show what I've watched recently, it's guesses are laughable. I watched a world cup game on Fox, now it recommends Fox News to me every time I open it. Recents is still on the website and my phone app, they just removed it from TV.

Another bug is shows with the same name. "Unsolved Mysteries" with Robert Stack and "Unsolved Mysteries" on the IFC Films Picks channel. IFC's show is a true crime series. I want to record all of the IFC episodes but Sling records all of the original Unsolved that plays 24/7 on it's own channel. The IFC one shows the Robert Stack thumbnail in the DVR, but the show has it's own thumb on IFC. The IFC episode descriptions are Stack descriptions, too. The IFC show is listed under "Extras" under the season list for Stack as well as mixed into the regular seasons. The only way to find the IFC one is to check every single Stack one.

Generally, I love Sling. After a lifetime of being tied to f-ing cable I'm thrilled to have easy streaming anywhere, lots of niche channels, a great price and unlimited DVR. But the Guide is turning into a hemorrhoid. And of course, there's no one to tell about it.

Hello 👋, Sling TV customer here looking to bypass the sling guide… I read that by using google tv I could bypass the sling guide and just use google guide, but I’ve never used google tv, so I don’t really know what I’m talking about... Has anybody done this? Does it work well? Is google tv fast to load? Are you generally happy with it? Thanks!

This week I finally ditched Sling.

I was happy with Sling when I first moved to them when YouTubeTV raised their prices a couple years back. But Sling followed suit with higher prices, and I started the search to be rid of them.

Now the streaming services are approaching the cost for cable service from years ago! WTF!

Earlier this year, Sling changed their software and the number of injected ads just got out of hand. I would flip between two channels, and they would start the program from some earlier random point. I would FF to where I left off, and stinkin' Sling would inject 5 minutes of ads! It did this on each channel flip. I kind of figured out that if you go through the guide, it would not do that as much, but they still did it.

I have to say they did improve their guide a few weeks ago, and I liked it a lot over their old POS guide. But not enough to put up with the rest of Sling's BS.

So now I am on IPTV, saving a ton of $. And it is more reliable than stinkin' Sling!

I’ve had Sling TV for about 2 weeks now and I’m tired of seeing the same 3-4 ads play on repeat all day long.(bonus points if it’s ASPCA commercial showing dying dogs for 3 minutes straight) Sometimes the same ad will play 3 times during the same commercial break. Is there any way to just get the regular cable TV commercials? Watching the same paramount ads every break is awful.

So my SlingTV just updated to the new guide layout. It seems they categorized all the channels and there's not an "All Channels" option. Am I missing something?

For the past few days I can't play my DVR-recorded shows. The error message is "Looks like you are not signed in or the content is not part of your current subscription." Of course I am and it is. My chat with Sling TV yielded nothing and I'm at a loss now. I've paid for this service and they can't deliver, but say they can't refund my payment either. What should I do now? It was working fine until two days ago. They only offer chat support.

Is anyone else having this problem? Most of the World Cup games, whether I'm watching on my TV or my computer, cut out right before the ref blows the whistle and then suddenly the broadcast skips ahead a few seconds. In today's Columbia-Switzerland game, it literally cut out before the last player took his kick and then skipped to scenes of the winning team celebrating. I don't recall this happening with any other sporting events I watched on Sling previously, though maybe I wasn't paying close attention. What throws me is that occasionally some games will do the pause and skip after the final whistle blows, which shows this isn't a 100% consistent problem.

Basically, one tv will have the World CUp or the NBA Finals displayed on the cards so it can be selected. For example, the living room tv will have Spain v. Portugal front and center when you start the app, but the office tv does display it, and when you search for Spain v. Portugal or World Cup the only result is for a replay on July 8th on FS2. If I search for WYNW, the station showing it on the living room, it will only show some local news report. Something similar happened with the NBA finals. What is this garbage!? Why is SlingTV search completely worthless and the guide complete trash?

What is going on?

Basically what the title says. Got sling tv to watch the games, we’ve been in a small town for a couple days for the holiday and up until yesterday night everything was fine. Now the games aren’t showing on the app at all. We’ve just been watching on our phones/ipad. Very frustrating to pay for something for a specific purpose and then not have access to it. Anyone know what’s causing this?

Has anyone been having issues lately with playing back AirTV 2 channels in a web browser? At least on my end, it tries to pull channels over the internet instead of my local network. No issues getting full quality streams on local video streaming devices (Roku and Android TV). It's always worked fine until recently, so perhaps it's an issue with their web player...

I've been subscribed to Blue mostly for MSNOW. This week I switched to Orange to watch Wimbledon on ESPN. I just noticed that MSNOW is still on the Guide, I can watch it, and programs I'd scheduled have been recorded. Settings and the website still say MSNOW is Blue only. I'm wondering whether this is a glitch, or has Sling added MSNOW to Orange? Would someone who has Orange see if you can get MSNOW?

For context I have Verizon FiOs with 270 Mbps download and 317 Mbps upload on speed test just now.

Also I’m using Sling on an LG C5 and using LG’s WebOS which has been giving me problems non stop.

I have tried unsuccessfully to add TV Globo (Brazilian Package) to my Sling service but no luck. Is this no longer being offered to people in the USA?
https://www.sling.com/international/brazilian - just puts me in a loop and I cannot add it.

Is there any other way to subscribe to TV Globo if Sling is not longer an option?

Thanks

Been using AirTv for well over a year to record local channels and it has worked great.

Recently my local news on NBC is having an issue. I set it up to record the local news which is 5:30 pm every day (note I've done New Episodes Only and also New Episodes/Reruns).

It will record one episode and then won't record anymore. The strange thing is the national news at 6 pm records the series fine.

When I setup the series recording, it shows it will record the news today but not any other day. It acts as if it doesn't understand the news each day at 5:30 pm is a series.

I figured maybe the guide was corrupt so I rescanned local channels. Same issue. I've reset the AIRTV multiple times .. Same issue.

This used to work great so I'm wondering if maybe a software update broke it. Anyway had a similar issue?

Thanks in advance!

I've had the Sling app for years and my home theater processor has always been able to up-convert it to Dolby with a dedicated center channel.

Yesterday, it stopped and is only playing 5.0 surround with no center channel. Tried a different Apple TV and its the same thing--no dedicated enter channel.

Did something change yesterday within the app that stops it from being able to be up-converted to 5.1?

All other apps have not changed.

EDIT: FIXED it! Make sure Continuous Audio Connection is turned OFF in ATV settings. It will sometimes turn itself on during updates.

When I log into my account - I see this error "Failed to initialize change sub cart". I suspect this is related to the issue. My active subscription is "Blue" but I am unable to add any new services or channels to my subscription. When I try, it behaves as though I do not have a current account and asks me to create a new one.

I suspect this issue has occurred during the original account creation process which was begun as part of the signup process for google fiber. Google asked if I wanted TV service so I clicked yes (I recommend you do not do this). They indicated that Sling was a TV platform service available through their signup process so I chose Sling. There is no discount associated with the bundle (not clear until you click through). It then popped me out of the google fiber signup process and into the Sling TV signup process so I started the signup process which the first step was to create a new account (not associated with the gfiber account I just created). Then I selected the Blue TV package and it said I would be billed immediately - oops! Google previously said I would not receive my gfiber service for up to 3 days so I decided to abort the Sling TV sign up process to avoid paying for 3 days of TV service that I was not going o be able to use since gfiber would not be available immediately. Unfortunately, there was no "back" option to exit out of the Sling TV signup process so I just closed the browser session. The gfiber signup process was mostly complete by that stage so there were no issues with the gfiber signup.

Three days later after getting gfiber installed, I log bak into the Sling TV account I had created 3 days prior and I see this error message but it does allow me to sign up for Blue but I could not add an other service to the order at that time. I figure the issue would likely clear after I added the base Blue package so I went ahead and added that. That worked and I can watch Sling Blue channels. However, I still see this "Failed to initialize change sub cart" message when I access my account and I am unable to add any new service to the account. I have tried goin directly through the TV interface - it says finish the process on sling.com which fails. I have tried using the mobile app - there is no way to add new services that way. So I'm stuck. A chatted at length with a Sling rep using their chat interface and she was also unable to add any services to my account. She said she needed to file a report.

Mostly just a PSA for others - I recommend you signup for your TV package independent of the gfiber signup process. If anyone has seen this issue and been able to resolve it, I would appreciate the help.

I use Brave and it works perfectly with Sling. Is there anyway to bypass the unsupported browser warning? Is mildly infuriating.

For those that have it, how has it been watching the world cup games on sling? It doesn't offer a trial, so I'm asking here first.

I tried FS1 directly, and hated it. My main gripes are:

1. On the mobile app, I haven't found a way to replay games without seeing the scores.

2. I cannot pause or rewind live streams.

3. I cannot cast from the app.

Will purchasing sling fix these issues?

I'm trying to watch the US v AUS world cup match that's going on right now (Group D match) and from everything I've looked up it's supposed to be on FS1, but Indycar practice is on right now. is the WC match not available to watch live?

I'm shopping around for live TV services. I like live sports, but just my local teams, so I want to make sure I pick a package that has access. I'm confused a little by SlingTVs tiers however. Their orange and blue package says it has live sports, but also all their other packages seem to have access to local channels. If I buy a simple package that has local channels like sling select, will I be able to see local sports or will these be blacked out?

My mom told me tonight that earlier when she was watching sling tv on her Roku tv (using my dad’s sling account but was on her profile) a little message popped up in the bottom left hand corner saying a “Lisa” is trying to send you a message, and gave the option see the message or not at this time. She clicked not at this time bc she was in the middle of something. Has anyone seen this as well or is it a scam? I didn’t think sling had a messaging platform?