$46 MILLION TO WATCH TV OUT OF HOME GOES TO SLING MEDIA.....Big backers for Sling (from www.advanced-television.com)
Liberty Media and EchoStar Communications are investing in Sling Media, a small Silicon Valley company that lets people watch TV on their computers away from home. The start-up said Liberty and EchoStar were two of the investors in a new, $46.6 million round of funding, which Sling Media will use for product development and international expansion.
Pix of Sling Media box from the company's website
Other new investors include Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Allen & Co., said Blake Krikorian, Sling Media's chief executive. Venture-capital firms DCM-Doll Capital Management and Mobius Venture Capital, as well as Hearst Corp. -- all three were previous investors in Sling Media -- also participated in the latest funding round.
The $250 Slingbox lets people watch shows from their home TV services on regular PCs and laptop computers and, soon, high-end cellphones. The technology is known as "place shifting," since it shifts a home TV show -- whether one shown through a cable connection or cable box, satellite receiver, or digital-video recorder, such as a TiVo machine -- to another device.Sling Media says it could help the media companies integrate their TV shows with other types of internet content and advertising.
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