Sling TV just made its 3-day streaming pass even better

Sling has done a good job of shaking up the live TV streaming market with its cheap day passes, which allow you access to Sling’s Orange package, including ESPN, for as little as 24 hours. Today, Sling is replacing one of its day pass options with an even more attractive one.

Gone is the Weekend Pass, the $10 Sling pass that allowed users to enjoy Sling Orange over a three-day period, Friday through Sunday. In its place: the Sling 3-Day Pass, which lets you stream Sling Orange channels for any three-day period.

The new 3-day pass is a smart tweak to Sling’s overall day pass concept, which allows streamers to tap into Sling’s collection of live TV streaming channels for brief periods of time compared to the traditional month.

Of the three day pass options, the weekend pass stood out as the one with the least flexibility, locking subscribers into the Friday-Sunday time frame, while the $5 day and $15 seven-day passes can be activated any day of the week.

Personally, I love Sling’s day pass concept, because it’s the perfect solution for watching, say, a casual Monday Night Football game on ESPN without having to cough up for a full month of access.

Sling Orange, which besides ESPN also includes CNN, TBS, TNT, HGTV and about two dozen other channels, normally costs $45.99 per month, while competing live TV streaming services like Hulu with Live TV and YouTube TV cost more than $83 per month.

Naturally, content providers like Disney and Warner Brothers aren’t happy with Sling’s day passes for the very reason that cord cutters like me love them. Disney, for example, would prefer that you sign up for a full month of Sling Orange or, better yet for them, a full month of its just-launched ESPN Unlimited streaming service, which costs $30 per month.

Disney and Warner Bros. filed lawsuits against Sling, claiming the live TV streamer breached its contracts with them by rolling out its day passes without any warning, among other allegations.

But last month, a federal judge denied Disney’s request for a preliminary injunction against Sling, while signaling he doubted Disney’s lawsuit against the streamer would make it to court.

Disney’s lawsuit against Sling is still active, as is Warner Bros.’

This article is part of TechHive’s coverage of the best live TV streaming services.