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I Just Want To Watch the News...Sheesh!!!
I just recently downloaded your app because I like & trust you news. I was unpleasantly surprised to find out I can’t even watch ANY of your news shows without having a tv provider. I can’t afford cable, dish or even WiFi any longer due to losing my business because of covid, therefore I get all my news from my phone. I don’t understand why you only have 3 news shows set to expire & no way to watch them without having a tv provider! Isn’t MSNBC a “NEWS” channel or app or whatever? If I can watch regular tv shows on NBC for a period of time without having a provider, why can’t I watch the dang news without one? This makes no sense to me & with everything going wrong in our country right now... I guess I’m lashing out at you because I can’t even watch news I trust!!! Damnit, why can’t anyone just do the right thing when it comes to their viewers or supporters or whatever we’re called??!!! Sheesh!!!!!Show lessTlessly
Kudos to Rachel, thumbs down to podcast editors
Rachel gives some of the best newscasting available, and I’m grateful her show is available via podcast. Lately, however, the people who put together the podcasts insert commercials mid-sentence of the newscaster. This is ridiculous. And it is outrageous. It is disruptive to the listener and also to the message - actual news - that is being conveyed. Are these partisan players who want to debunk the news? Or are they just incompetent? This is also happening on other msnbc show like Lawrence O’Donnell and Brian Williams. Knock it off! It’s sleazy and demeaning to the newscasters, and disrespectful to listeners.Show lessGaiaLady
Not very good
This is a frustrating app. When I first open it up and tap “live” it sits there with a black screen with the pause sign doing nothing forever. It goes completely black and I tap it again and it repeats. When I’m lucky to get it working, it will sometimes freeze up and nothing I do gets it back.
More: lately commercials happen anytime, with no apparent reason. Before, commercials happened between segments of the show, like on television. This morning, I logged in to Morning Joe at the start of a segment on COVID and the app went to commercials, literally played like 10 ads in a roll. By the time it got back to the broadcast, the segment on COVID was over and the show was going to commercial break. If this is to discourage me from using the app it’s working.Show lessNicoleWallaceFan
Fed up with ads, deleting the app
An update:
A few days ago, I posted 3 stars and the comment that follow these additional remarks.
I am deleting this app and watching MSNBC in my browser. I am completely fed up with ads interrupting reporting, causing the need to restart the app to return to the interrupted report- which, of course, is some new topic.
The intrusions come at greater than 15 minute intervals, in addition to the program's scheduled commercial breaks.
Stop treating paid subscribers (of service providers) so poorly. This is nothing but unvarnished greed.
Shame on you.
(Prior comments from just a few days ago)
This app was 4.5 stars until the most recent update- (now it's barely 3 stars.)
I cannot watch 30 minutes without having to close, reopen the app to continue watching a report that was interrupted by ads.
These ads are not the expected ad break. The expected ads between segments play as always.
The ads to which I refer are not expected or convenient.
FIX THIS!
MSNBC is not free to view. I am paying too much to have programming, primarily so I can watch MSNBC.
The app is acting as if it is freeware that has too many, poorly placed, and lengthy ads.Show lessKit Janus
Almost perfect, except for....
I watch MSNBC every day, sometimes I have it on all day, and the app lets me watch it while I’m away from home.
App works very well EXCEPT that it freezes frequently and usually I can’t get it to unfreeze. Sometimes, after several minutes, it will begin to play again on its own but usually it stays stuck. I then have to go back to the MSNBC Home page, select Live TV and hope it will play correctly. In the meantime I’ll have missed part of the program.
And sometimes, when a live program has frozen, it won’t let me go back to the MSNBC Home page at all and I actually have to turn my device off, then back on, select the MSNBC app... and start all over. This is very annoying and such a pain that I often just quit watching - which is certainly not what I want to do! But when a live program has frozen twice, or more, during a single viewing, it is just too aggravating and frustrating to go through the process of trying to get it to unfreeze and restart. Grrrrrrr!Show lessccjnc1
Love the App for keeping me updated politically
This is one of the few apps that I watch consistently for current political updates on the. Coronavirus, the insanity and incompetence of Donald Trump trying to act presidential, and news breaks as they happen. What I like best is it provides the facts in a truthful manner and gives insight into the misinformation and rumors circulated by the White House, internet groups, etc. It provides one with enough information to make a rational and informed decision and perspective on what is going on in the US and the as World. I can also access it on my SiriusXM on channel 118 in my car at any time. Love Rachael, Morning Joe Arbrie all of them except Josh. Keep the truth flowing about the threats to our democracy.
I can only speak for me.Show lessCeyou2
iPad issues
Update: Screen issue described before no longer a problem but still can’t get the live broadcast when hooked into TV as it flips from play to pause. Doesn’t happen with demand programming. So, still not watching msnbc live.
Can’t adjust image, aspect on iPad so lose image on both sides.
On three iPads the image is still cut on both sides so only get the center of msnbc image. There has not been an update - is this happening to anyone else. Running latest 13 iOS. As to freezings and the like this has not been a problem for sometime, but was in the past. This app is far from 100% functional, but will use for audio as can’t be sitting in front of a tv while I’m working anyway.
Update We can no longer use our devices to get msnbc. Sorry as we are rarely using the home tv and the app won’t work on our other antenna connected tv. Does not work any longer on my phone.Show lessSECR68
Essential and regularly aggravating
I’m an almost daily user. My provider went from DirecTV to ATT and then, because I moved, to Xfinity, each of which had a surprisingly large effect on the experience.
The problem is that the core engine seems to be brittle. Very easily the user experience goes from good to bad. I’m asked to sign in three times in one session and then not for days (every single time asked if I want to create an NBC profile. No.) Going to live works except when it regularly displays a “you need a provider screen” to which the only response is to forget and relaunch the app ...
I realize this is a work in progress. I just wish it didn’t feel so much like one.Show lessLZ SF
Ads
I know ads are part of life but since the new update, things have gotten to the point of ridiculousness. There are already a lot of ads when watching a live program. Since the last update, I’m constantly being forced to watch ads DURING the programming. I’ll be in the middle of a segment that I’m highly interested in and right in the middle of the conversation, ads. Not just one but up to four or five. I miss the the meat of the segment and then can’t rewind to catch up where the ad interrupted.
This is my source of choice but I have others. I’ll, unfortunately, have to stream elsewhere until (IF) this is fixed. It’s live news. You don’t interrupt live news with ads, especially when there are already commercial breaks scheduled in and CERTAINLY NOT at the cost of the content.Show lessJaeroe
Give MSNBC its own app!!
Ever since you combined the MSNBC awesome app with your NBC Networks app, I have absolutely hated it! All the functionality of the MSNBC App on its on is gone - the app does not pick up the live stream Quickly once interrupted, I have to restart it constantly, it takes forever to load and even stream, and I cannot get to past episodrs with ease!
I do not care about your other channels - if I did, I would download their individual apps! Whoever thought putting a lot of great individual channels together into a single app was STUPID!!! PLEASE BRING BACK THE MSNBC APP ON ITS OWN!! Thank God I can still watch MSNBC ON ITS OWN ON MY FIRESTICK, or else you would lose a lifelong customer!!!!!
Bring it back and call it MSNBC ONE or something! Why do we have to even consider your other channels at all? I know - because MSNBC is your flagship so you want to lift the other channels on MSNBC’s back! Don’t! STOP!! Give us our individual apps for the rest of us who don’t care about the rest of your channels!!!!!Show lessdupeay4US
