Comments on: EchoStar Announces Agreement to Acquire Sling Media, Inc.

By: Big John

Big John — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:41:14 +0000

After reading Blake’s comments, I feel a little better about the Echostar deal. Now my only concern is when the parent company takes a hit after the Tivo thing gets figured out. Also, I guess this means Tivo won’t be buying Sling, Apple won’t buy Tivo and puppies never have a chance to live a good life.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:15:10 +0000

Well, Dave as a recent employee I suspect you’re not yet a millionaire, but I hope you did okay out of this.

As others have said, I worry about the future of Sling, regardless of what your bosses or Echostar have to say on the subject at the moment.

You could imagine a sling box being built into the Echostar STB, and otherwise everything continuing as before…

Or you could imagine that Sling becomes a feature only Echostar customers can use…

We’ll have to see…

By: ZeoTiVo

ZeoTiVo — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:39:52 +0000

zatznotfunnyechostar.com

By: ptivo

ptivo — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:16:30 +0000

I’d only say congrats to you Dave, if it’s something you wanted! As exit strategy for founders and equity holders prob good, but for innovation uh… doesn’t bode well.

The big Q is what’s this mean for zatznotfunny.com??

By: Big John

Big John — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:31:14 +0000

bummer, i’ve always been a directv guy

By: hdtivo

hdtivo — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:39:29 +0000

A real stunner.

Where to begin?

Dave, I’d begin by hedging my bets. Start thinking about another place to work while at Digital Life at the same time you ponder if this will mean a greater opportunity for you at Sling.

>The timing of the DirecTV Super >Fan news and this announcement >has me wondering what Echostar is >up to

Probably going to buy TiVo next week. JUST KIDDING

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:09:24 +0000

The timing of the DirecTV Super Fan news and this announcement has me wondering what Echostar is up to.

By: Chris Lanier

Chris Lanier — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:34:21 +0000

Congrats to Sling! (and Dave!)