Sling Gets A Shakeup, Kirkorian Bros Out

A year after Sling Media’s was sold to EchoStar, co-founders and the top team at Sling Entertainment are leaving the company. Aside from co-founders Blake and Jason Krikorian, Jason Hirschhorn (President), Ben White (Chief Creative) and Greg Wilkes (VP-Sales) are exiting the company as well. Under the terms of the sale, each of the senior executives agreed to stay for one year. Sling Media, popular for it’s DVR that can record shows and stream them to your phone, computers elsewhere, was purchased for $380 million. EchoStar may or may not be in trouble here. After winning back-to-back ‘Best of Show’ at CES and Macworld, the company may be able to move on without the senior team allowing them to cut costs.
Current COO, John Gilmore will take over for now. As for the team leaving, President Jason Hirschhorn promised EchoStar he would get the programming and integration through QA on new products and present them at one more CES conference. Now that CES is through, the team is ready to move on. Serial entrepreneur Blake Kirkorian must have something in the works, so keep an eye out for yet another groundbreaking product in the digital media space.