Why Sling’s short-term subscriptions are a casual college football fan’s best friend
Why Sling’s short-term subscriptions are a casual college football fan’s best friend
We are officially one month into the college football season, and even if you aren’t a diehard sports fan, there are bound to be at least some games throughout the year that you are going to want to check out. Whether it is Saturday’s in-state matchup between the No. 3 Miami Hurricanes and the No. 19 Florida State Seminoles, the all-important Conference Championship Weekend in December, or all of the major bowl game action in the first week of the new year, under the old streaming setup, you’d have to subscribe to a full month of service from a live TV streaming service to catch the action. However, Sling TV now offers short-term Sling Orange subscription packages available by the day, weekend, or week, giving you tons of new options to find the right plan for your level of fandom.
These new short-term options allow customers to get access to all the programming on the Sling Orange plan for a shorter period of time than a traditional streaming subscription. These plans come with over 30 channels, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3 (which offers simulcasts of sports on ABC), TBS, TNT, and more.
You can pay just $4.99 to access Sling Orange for a full day, or upgrade to the weekend pass for $9.99 and watch college football action Friday through Sunday. Lastly, the week-long pass is available for $14.99. So with these short-term subscriptions, you pay to watch only for as long as you want, without having to feel locked into a full month of service at a much higher price. Once you’ve watched the games you signed up for, there’s no need to worry about a surprise auto-renewal that keeps subscribing you to the service day after day without your knowledge. Sling will only keep you subscribed for as long as you want, giving you the utmost sports fandom flexibility.
That lack of commitment gives casual sports fans the freedom they need to dip in and out of the football season calendar without having to pay a ton of money to have access to games that they have no interest in watching. That’s why the flexibility — both in terms of price and duration — makes the shorter subscription windows the ultimate streaming tool for sporadic sports fans.
Say the game you want to watch is on ESPN this week; just grab a Day Pass for $4.99 and have a great time! If you see another matchup on Fox in a couple of weeks, you can bounce over to the Sling TV Select plan and pay just $19.99 to watch that package for a month. If there are several games you want to see on ESPN channels between a Saturday and a Thursday, grab a Week Pass and stream them all!
What if the game you want to watch is on the ACC Network or SEC Network this week? No problem; Sling’s new, shorter plans also allow you to add the Sports Extra add-on pack, which carries these channels. You’ll pay just $0.99 to add Sports Extra to a Sling TV day pass, $1.99 to add it to a weekend subscription, or $2.99 to add it to a week’s plan.
The limited-time subscriptions will be quite handy to have when the College Football Playoff rolls around beginning in December, as well. These games appear exclusively on ESPN, with a small handful sublicensed to TNT. All of those channels are available with Sling Orange, and thus can be streamed for one day, one weekend, or one week at a time.
If you only have an interest in a handful of marquee college football games this season, Sling TV is the best place to be. You can use Sling TV’s short-term subscriptions to watch only the games you want that are appearing on channels in the Sling Orange package, without having to feel locked into paying for games you aren’t planning to watch.
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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.