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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
Streaming Access to MSNBC
Unless you have a ROKU account to stream live broadcasts to your phone or tablet, you won’t be able to view broadcasts on your mobile phone or tablet. MSNBC has partnered with NBCuniversal which is now owned by Peacock that live streams NBC (news, shows, etc.) and Bravo shows and movies.
If you previously could stream MSNBC news to your mobile devices using a TV provider other than Peacock, be very careful about trying to use this app to stream live broadcasts. If you don’t exercise due diligence, you could potentially be signing up for a new Peacock account (thru NBCuniversal) and being billed automatically to your existing streaming plan for $55 a month. The workaround is simply to access MSNBC thru your existing streaming service if your plan carries it. Hopefully, this is not too confusing.Show lessDanabenj
Facts
MSNBC the anchors and news stories are fact and if a mistake they issue an apology.
F—- news is all propaganda no facts just opinions, and CNN has made a mistake by not wanting toPresent the facts as I truly are. Ive watched MSNBC news for 20 years I think so anyway .I don’t know how long I’m assuming msnbc been in existence 20 years my late wife and I had a good time and learning time and look forward and had good time together Watching Rachel Lawrence Ed Schultz Chris Matthews and watched all the anchors that are on now grow through the program thanks so much I never write reviews John Moody lover of all democratic party since 1984Show lessjohnnyLate
Great programs HORRIBLE APP
UPDATE: the application has totally stopped running on my iPhone. I uninstalled it reinstalled it. I restarted my phone I’ve signed in dozens of times to my provider. Nothing I do all it does. Is Luke me around the signing into my provider and doesn’t take me to step three, which is actually watching anything so for the present, the app is totally useless. In fact, as far as my phone is concerned, it doesn’t even exist. If there were a way to actually contact support, I would do that. But when it says check Support, it says go to settings in the app and contact support. However, there is no way to contact support in settings so again big fail.
NO REAL SUPPORT FOR THE APP. ACTUALLY NO SUPPORT AT ALL. MSNBC has great programs, but using the app to view them is tedious. Each time I go to use it I have to delete the app and reinstall it. This may or may not work on first reinstallation try. I watch a while, now knowing full-and-well it will crash and I will have to rinse-and- repeat. This happens on. Both my iPads and my iPhone. I put myself through this because I don’t have a television. How long I will persist... Done, due to tumultuous times I have tried to use the app. I had to uninstall and reinstall it multiple times every day I used it to make it marginally useable. But enough is enough. I’ll try it again in a couple of months, maybe. It is just too tedious. (I have tried it non multiple devices so it is the app not the devices.)Show lessBuckner Graphics
Apple TV App works like it was developed by Fox News
I put this review here because I can’t do it through the Apple TV app, and I would give it zero stars if I could! To begin with, the thing crashes more than a drunk F1 driver, and when it’s not doing that it rewinds two to five minutes and replays content, and that’s when it’s “working right”. When it’s not working right instead of the rewind and replay it starts going through the MSNBC highlights on its own, it just skips from live content to the highlights without touching a button.
To make matters worse, it now won’t let me watch anything other than the highlights! It says “please sign in with participating tv provider”, but the sign in button doesn’t work AT ALL, so I can’t even put in my information to watch live tv even though I have an account AND it’s part of my cable subscription.Show lessEddie Štolen
Do Better
MSNBC’s evening line-up is excellent reporting. I refuse, however, to watch the daytime shows because they constantly focus on the Biden administration’s and Democrats’ “failures”. Rather than boosting the overwhelmingly good to great accomplishments they have done for the country. I realize that progressive Democrats expect more but MSNBC should be pointing out the huge number of challenges thrust upon the POTUS administration as a result of the prior administration, the pandemic & world events. MSNBC should be explaining to its viewers the operations of government and how the Democrats hands are tied and the need to elect more in order to accomplish wha5 progressives want. Focus on what’s happening good nut the bad. Democracy is hanging on by a thread and MSNBC should be helping Americans understand that especially since under an authoritarian rule, the media will be first to go. Do better!Show lessCherokeeNative33
Racheal Is Basically Gone
When I dropped Direct TV the one thing I missed was watching Racheal in Primetime. I turned to listening to her show via podcasts even though it wasn't quite the same. I am sure I am not the only one who feels this puts a nail in the coffin for MSNBC. She is not replaceable by any of the current talent they have in their lineup and perhaps, more concerning, anybody else from the outside. I no longer have the tie that bound me to MSNBC so I am not focused on any particular service/show and find myself reading articles rather than sitting through TV shows with average predictable commentators. It's simply not worth my time. Written news is easy to get, saves time and I can chose the topics that I am interested in. Primetime TV is for perspectives on news and there is no commanding presence I feel drawn to watch. Bye, ByeShow lessGrannyDar
Sad
I love MSNBC and watch it every day. I used to love this app. Then the UI was redesigned, around the time PeacockTV was released. The MSNBC apps (iPhone and AppleTV) became very prone to crashing to the point that I gave up using it for a few months. I came back today to see if it was working better, only to find another new UI, completely missing clips for any of my my favorite shows. As a non-cable subscriber, I can use up to three “credits” to watch full episodes. I don’t have time for full episodes. This app is now useless. As a consolation, MSNBC clips are available in the PeacockTV app, for a subscription, which is undoubtedly why they were removed from this app where they were free. Sadly, I’ll be deleting what used to be my favorite news app. MSNBC is fantastic, this app not so much any more.Show lessEarthCitizen1
