As Phillip Swann, the president and publisher of TVpredictions.com reported, Sling's customer service Twitter account responded to over 100 complaints of people having issues watching the show.
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Sling TV is a streaming TV service that launched this year and lets you watch select channels live over the internet. It starts at $20 per month.
It has a history of outages when popular shows air. The "Fear the Walking Dead" premiere illustrates how tough it is to get live streaming TV right. It may be possible, but it's still not as reliable as good old-fashioned cable. At least not yet. For those who want to reliably watch major TV events like this, it might be too early to cut the cord from cable.
Sling TV's Twitter account continued to respond to complaints on Monday morning.
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Some people posted pictures and video of black screens they saw when they tried to load AMC on Sling.
The issue with the "Fear the Walking Dead" premiere isn't the first high profile outage for Sling TV, which began streaming live TV to consumers in February.
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The service went down during the Duke-Michigan State NCAA men's basketball semifinal game in April, prompting a blog post from Sling CEO Roger Lynch apologizing to subscribers and writing that the company is "working everyday to continue delivering that great experience."
As Sling is learning, delivering live video online to a large number of people at the same time is very challenging, and for now it's considerably less reliable than traditional TV.
"Streaming TV is like television in 1951," Swann told Tech Insider earlier this summer. "It's exciting. It's eye-opening. It makes you wonder what's next. But it's also very frustrating."
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Meanwhile, Apple is said to be testing a service similar to Sling TV that could launch in 2016. But Apple has been investing heavily in a content delivery network (CDN) to reliable push media like apps and video to customers. That could help when its TV service launches.
Sling addressed the isse on its blog Monday evening, writing that the company knows some people are having trouble, and although the company is working to fix it, some people may continue to experience issues streaming.
"We will continue to work around the clock until a solve is firmly in place," the blog post, which was written by the Sling TV Support Team, said. It also instructed subscribers to reach out to the company's customer support Twitter account if they're having issues.
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