But as carriers have grown more popular, their safety has been questioned, with particular alarm about bag-style slings, which have contributed to the suffocation deaths of several infants.
Both are still trailing competitors, including Dish's Sling TV, which has more than 2 million estimated subscribers, and AT&T's DirecTV Now, which just hit 1 million.
But the election for the post of governor of Tokyo has piqued interest not only because of the size of the task which falls to its victor, but also for the mud slinging and misogyny which has characterised the fight between the candidates.
The remaining half of the loft space is the living room, which has the Le Corbusier-style sling chairs and an Italian brown leather couch by Poltronesofà brightened with Missoni pillows that match the multicolored Missoni carpet underneath.
It has hired a fairly prominent PR team, the Brunswick Group, which has already begun slinging mud and planting stories about its tech rivals like Google.
So imagine their horror and indignation when that which has been promised doesn't want to be plucked and tells them to sling their greasy hook.
The streaming TV service is one of the newer ones to arrive, and still behind market leaders Sling TV and DirecTV Now, which have millions of subscribers.
Hillary Clinton's supporters have their own theories about the slings and arrows, many of which have to do with her role as a prominent working woman, and hence a symbol of feminism at a time when feminism is under siege.
I'd never heard one-liners before which had no hint of pun-slinging or wordplay; just funny sentences.
The group's most famous piece was the uncomfortable-looking 1968 Mies armchair and footrest, which had a chrome frame and a latex sling, and poked fun at functionalism.
