Sling TV’s limited-time passes are my favorite feature
Sling TV’s limited-time passes are my favorite feature
Sling allows you to watch for $5 per day, $10 per weekend, or $15 per week if you want to access the programming from its Orange package.
Sling TV has had a busy 2025, and the future for the service looks promising so long as it can continue to innovate as it has been doing. Many of the most popular channels in the Sling Blue package, for example, are now found in the Sling Select plan, which costs $20 per month — less than half the price of Sling Blue.
Viewers who would rather watch the programming of Sling Orange, such as ESPN and Disney Channel, don’t have to resort to the $46 monthly price to watch that content, however. That’s because Sling TV has also launched a new program to allow customers to watch Sling Orange content for as little as $5 per day; Sling’s website calls this limited-time access structure Passes on its website, and it’s my favorite feature about the live TV streaming service.
As a sports fan, Sling’s Passes that offer limited-time access to Sling Orange programming are the perfect way to catch a big game, or two, or three, without having to pay for a full month of an expensive live TV streaming service. Sling allows customers to sign up for one day of Sling Orange service for $5; a 72-hour, Friday-to-Monday weekend for $10; or a full week for $15.
That’s key for me as an NFL fan, since my Denver Broncos are often featured at least once per season on “Monday Night Football.” I don’t keep a live TV streaming subscription regularly, so if the football scheduling gods decide that my annual “MNF” game is on ESPN only and not simulcast on ABC, I don’t have a cheaper way to watch than to stream on the ESPN Unlimited subscription service for $30 per month.
Instead, Sling Passes allow me to watch any ESPN-only “MNF” games for $5, or if I want to keep ESPN access for the rest of the week and catch a Denver Nuggets or Colorado Avalanche game on the channel, I can just sign up for seven days’ worth of access for $15 instead. Sling lets customers pay for only the amount of time they want to watch, and leave when the event they want to stream is done.
Passes are only available for programming on the Sling Orange package, but this plan has much more than just sports. For families with kids, Sling Orange also features Disney Channel, Food Network, and HGTV, as well as CNN, History, TNT, and TBS, in a total package of more than 30 channels with options in many different genres.
Programmers aren’t happy about Sling’s Passes program. Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery have both sued to try and stop the sale of these products, user-friendly as they are. Viewers have been clamoring for a product like Passes that lets them pay for limited-time access to top cable channels for years, and Sling is the only one that has dared to offer such a product.
Whether or not Sling will be able to sell Passes for the long haul is very much dependent on the outcome of Disney and WBD’s lawsuits. But until those are settled, fans should take advantage of Sling TV’s Passes while they can, and pay as little as $5 per day for highly in-demand Sling programming.
Sling TV
Sling TV is The Streamable’s choice for cord-cutters on a budget. Sling is a live TV streaming service with multiple channel packages. The $45.99/month Sling Orange plan offers about 30 channels, including Disney Channel and ESPN. The $45.99/month Sling Blue plan offers about 40 channels, including ABC, Fox, and NBC in major markets.
You can combine Orange+Blue for a total of $60.99 / month. Sling also offers many channel add-on packages starting at $6/month.