Sling TV is gearing up for March Madness with several new features that make it easier to follow the tournament. It’s adding picture-in-picture viewing on desktop browsers, a new iOS widget, and improved sports scores.
Picture-in-picture lets you watch NCAA Tournament games in the corner of your screen without minimizing what you’re supposed to focus on at work. Sling calls the “Side View” feature and you can activate it by clicking a button labeled “Browse your computer while watching a video” in the top right corner of the Sling player on desktop browsers. You can then move the resulting popup around the screen and it will stay on top of any other active apps or web pages.
Sling also added an iOS widget that displays a custom channel list. For example, you can create a widget that shows only the channels that broadcast March Madness (ESPN for the women’s tournament; TBS, TNT, and truTV for the men’s), providing a shortcut to the action on your home screen. It’s available in two-row and four-row sizes, and you can create widget stacks with different channel collections for each one.
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Finally, Sling has updated its in-app guide. During the tournament, the Sling TV app will display a dedicated March Madness row with live scores and game times, allowing you to quickly search for the nail-biting games you don’t want to miss. (However, Sling adds the caveat that the feature “may not be available on all devices.”)
Watching games on Sling requires a subscription to Sling Orange (which includes both men’s and women’s tournaments) or Sling Blue (for men only). Although you may see sign-up benefits for new customers, the standard cost is $40 per month for each package after a price increase last year.
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