Sling Media Co-Founder, Blake Krikorian, Joins Clicker Media's Board, Invests in Company

Los Angeles-based start-up, Clicker Media (note: the company, which says that it aims to become "the complete programming guide to Internet television," claims to catalog all broadcast programming available online, together with TV-quality Web originals, movies and music videos, and to deliver them "in one seamless, organized experience that includes more than 350,000 episodes, from over 5,000 shows, from over 1,000 networks, in over 1,000 categories"; it is currently inviting sign-ups from beta users), announced last week that Blake Krikorian has joined its board and has also invested an undisclosed amount in the company. Krikorian is the co-founder and former chairman and CEO of Sling Media, the TV place-shifting company that was sold to EchoStar back in October 2007 for $380 million. He left Sling Media in January, and currently sits on the CEA's Board of Industry Leaders.

The other members of Clicker Media's board are the company's founder and CEO, Jim Lanzone (formerly CEO of Ask.com), Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital, Geoff Yang of Redpoint Ventures (note: Benchmark and Redpoint are Series A investors in the company), and J.D. Heilprin, founder of ModernFeed, a Web site that was acquired by Clicker. "Like many consumers, I am watching more and more shows online these days," Krikorian said in a prepared statement. "Whether it's from pay services such as Netflix and Amazon VOD, or free streaming via hundreds of sites like SouthPark Studios or NFL.com, the sheer amount of programming, and destinations to watch it online is rapidly increasing. We not only have existing content aggregators like Comcast, but new ones including the content providers--such as the TV networks and studios--themselves. One thing is very clear: In this new, ever-expanding world of virtually limitless choice, there simply will not be one place that hosts all of the world's content. It will be massively dispersed. This creates the opportunity for a service like Clicker to make it easy for all of us to find, discover and keep track of the shows we like...regardless of the site or service they are hosted on. Clicker is off to a fantastic start, with a remarkable product and first-class team, and I look forward to helping them take things to the next level."