Sling TV Holding L.L.C. — Company Profile
Company overview. Sling TV Holding L.L.C. is the corporate entity behind Sling TV, the over-the-top live TV streaming service launched in January 2015 by DISH Network. It is headquartered in the Englewood/Meridian, Colorado area on the DISH/EchoStar campus and is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), which acquired Sling's parent DISH Network in a merger completed December 31, 2023. EchoStar's filings put Sling TV at roughly 2.0 million subscribers as of September 30, 2025 (about 7.1 million combined DISH+Sling subscribers mid-2025); Sling's revenue is not broken out separately.
Products / services. Sling TV is a multichannel, live-linear and on-demand streaming service sold without long-term contracts. Its product lines include Sling Orange (single-stream) and Sling Blue (multi-stream) domestic packages, Sling Freestream (a free, ad-supported tier with hundreds of channels), International and Latino programming packages, add-on "Extras," pay-per-view events, cloud DVR, and short-term Day/Weekend/Week passes introduced in 2025. It competes with YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, Fubo, and DirecTV Stream.
Litigation posture. Sling TV Holding is an operating company, not an NPE. The tracked case data show one appearance, as defendant (1 case, 0 as plaintiff): Adeia Technologies Inc. et al. v. DISH Network Corporation et al., filed March 31, 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado — Sling's home district, not a plaintiff-friendly venue like the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable case context. Adeia, an R&D and IP-licensing company, alleges that DISH's pay-TV services — including the Sling TV service, DISH Anywhere, and the Hopper platform — infringe five patents covering adaptive streaming (server-side ad insertion), programming-guide user interfaces, and concurrent-stream session management. EchoStar's Form 10-Q confirms the suit and states it intends to vigorously defend, while noting potential treble damages or injunctive relief; press reports indicate DISH filed a declaratory-judgment action in California the following day. Sling itself has no plaintiff-side patent activity in the tracked database.