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Do NOT update this app. It only gets worse
I stream evening MSNBCprograms on my phone while making dinner. For the past year, when my fave show Reid Out came on, inexplicably, service would freeze every few minutes or every 15 seconds. I'd have to turn off my phone to get it back. Latest upgrade, changed things for the worst. It made it harder to start live streaming and get the image to fill the screen. It offered more links and headlines and junk getting in the way of just turning on the show. Here's the kicker. Today, a few days into the latest update this app suddenly informed me I had to turn off my ad blockers to watch the program I had just brought up. You mean there is an ad blocker that turns of MSNBC's dreadful pharmaceutical ads for erectile dysfunction, female incontinence, the gold mine of life insurance buybacks that show retirees as too ignorant to know what they're "sitting on" but the men working mining jobs are smarter about about? I digress. The answer is no. There is no such ad blocker for TV ads, but MSNBC wants to control the possibiliity that a live stream viewer may wander into the blog or newsletter section and start reading without the barrage of internet ads? MSNBC, you are better than this. Get it together. And stop with the ageist ads that insult half your viewing audience.Show lessVery Disappointed 910
Still no live stream, can’t even stream shows. Garbage app. What is it for?
Further update: when watching a show in the browser, it is absolutely impossible to fast forward or reverse. There is a teeny little slider button but it doesn't work at all. If you tap the rewind buttons, they disappear after each tap and they don't take you forward or back very far. This whole rollout is completely incompetent. Probably gonna just give up and stop watching it altogether.
Update: I finally figured out that the app will open up in a browser on your device for streaming or watching shows. However, IT DOESN’T WORK! And, on the very rare occasions it does work, you can’t mirror the content to your TV! Completely worthless. So basically what I wrote below still stands. There’s NOTHING in the app. Are they trying to prevent us from watching their content? Guess so. Not sure why though. Utter incompetence. Now there’s NOTHING in the app at all. Not a single episode, no live streams of his channel. We’re paying all this money for cable, most of the time I have to watch via the app because I’m not always home, and now there’s NOTHING in the app. What idiot CEO thought it was a good idea to put out an app with nothing in it?!! imbecile. Worthless. Cutting the cord.Show lessEffeddddddd
Developer Response
We appreciate your feedback about the changed viewing experience. The team is already working on improvements to allow you to watch the MSNBC livestream within the app. We expect these changes to roll out within a few months.The absolute WORST app I use
I've never used an app as unreliable as the MSNBC app. It crashes with abysmal frequency on my new Apple TVs. When I open the app, it gives me a decent stream for 20-30 minutes at most. I've never been able to watch a full hour of programming without the app freezing or crashing. I can watch a complete basketball or football game on the Fox Sports app, the ESPN app, the Peacock app and the CBS app with no issues. But the MSNBC app has never run for an hour without a problem.
There is no excuse for such poor performance. The Peacock app is NBC & it works great - movies, sports & news on Peacock are no problem. How can NBC allow MSNBC to continue to perform so badly?
I still use the app. It just makes me furious EVERYDAY.Show lessBoomer1950