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MSNBC App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Time to fix the channelI don’t know who runs a MSNBC app but it is a junkie application. It keeps asking me for my location every hour or so and then stops. Then for all of us sudden I get the wheel of death on the screen. This is a problematic piece of garbage that they have designed. I have the latest iOS and it seems that either MSNBC doesn’t understand the inner workings of the Apple iOS system or iOS is far more advanced than the MSNBC app but somebody needs to do something to blow up the app and build a new one If you don’t want these problems and you want to get MSNBC for free you can Google rock in a rooster MSNBC live and you will stumble across a relatively error-free European feed for MSNBC that does not have commercials. I think I may wind up going there and dumping Comcast because either Comcast does not share my identity data properly or MSNBC is APM is polluted but somebody isn’t doing something proper and they should check it out because I see nothing but complaints about this app.Version: 6.18.2
✓ Worst app in the history of apps!!!The mobile and tablet app is great but, the Apple TV app is the worst I’ve ever experienced. I’d give it zero stars if I could. I go through the trouble of unlocking it with my provider and I’m booted after 15 min to an hour and have to resubmit my info. I used to think the AMC and History Channel apps where the worst but, this app takes the cake. The developers need to be fired and the advertisers should know that their investment is being wasted. This app is so bad that it makes me dislike the network as a whole and I absolutely love MSNBC well now it’s more of I like MSNBC given this app and my opinion is making my feelings towards MSNBC go down day by day as thee developers ignore my communication. They don’t even respond to me. Guess CNN will and they’re advertisers will be getting my views because their developers know how to get it right. Btw: The NBC app is the same..Version: 6.18.0
✓ Not very goodThis 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..Version: 7.16
✓ The absolute WORST app I useI'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..Version: 7.39
✓ Doesn’t work in Canada, lost opportunities…The app insists that I enter a 5-digit ZIP code, so a Canadian postal won’t work. It makes me wondering why this app is available in Canada if by design only US residents can use it. It is also a lost opportunity for NBC. MSNBC is carried by many Canadian cable providers, so they have many viewers in Canada. Why turning them down? In my case, this is one network I’d pay to access its content! I’m probably not alone. So sad….Version: 7.35.0
✓ Content is excellent, App Not bad; some suggestions:1) app should be available to public without a cable subscription—add commercials if necessary. 2) Should have a buffer feature to be able to rewind live video. 3) Episodes should be available as quickly as possible, after the program has aired. Not hours or a day later. Thanks! Keep up the good work..Version: 6.18.0
✓ Racheal Is Basically GoneWhen 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, Bye.Version: 7.34
✓ No link for CanadaHave Bell here in Canada but not available on msnbc app. Fix it..Version: 9.5.0
✓ Only available for cable subscribers in USAI pay extra to have MSNBC in Canada in my cable subscription. Still can’t use this app. Guess it’s too bad, because I’ll be cancelling my cable soon and won’t have MSNBC anymore. I’m moving solely to AppleTV..Version: 7.5.1
✓ 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!!!!!.Version: 7.17
✓ CanadianNo access with this app , have been using YouTube ,to bad because great news coverage.Version: 6.18.2
✓ Consistently poor preforming app.Update: this app has finally achieved perfection in freezing. It now NEVER plays video and has made me question msnbc on a whole. Do they not know millions get their news on smart devices?! , with apps that work. It’s a shame. It’s been a year of this and I give up. I don’t like the competition, but their apps work. Enough is enough, msnbc your app is beyond a joke. For months I thought it was my Apple TV, my iPad or maybe my internet. I adjusted and fine tuned..everything. Conclusion the msnbc app is just shamefully poor to the point of being useless. It’s main feature is to freeze constantly, Period! You will not be disappointed there, that’s 100% guaranteed.. You never get to relax and just get the news or watch shows in one cohesive flow. Now, I love msnbc and their channel, this is not on them, it’s just this terrible app! My local channels live news apps are better and other national competitors work just fine. I wish they would put some effort and thus show respect to the viewers and their own journalists by getting this right..Version: 6.14.1
✓ A plethora of quality issues.....That leave it just plain annoying to use. Complaints are similar to other reviews here: inundation with web ads which are the same over and over and over and clip and cut over each other; app freezing; stream pauses; subtitles won’t turn off even though I never turned them on; subtitle dictation isn’t even close; app tile in launcher greys out; app won’t play picture in picture which means you lock up your iPad completely to use it. I have also used live stream on laptop and there in macOS/chrome/xfinitystream it comes down to which stream channel you choose: stream the channel mirror? Its the same as live tv with a 10 second delay and almost no issues Stream the digital msnbc live channel? Same junk as the iOS app. Accept one reality:this is a left leaning political channel. Win over millennials and their successor generations to your cause with junk digital performance like this? Good luck with that..Version: 6.18.0
✓ NewsI have no problem with other news stations, why is it a problem here? Add commercials to pay !..Version: 7.5.1
✓ Useless in CanadsThere are no Canadian tv providers on the list to choose from. Get some! Bummer..Version: 6.18.2
✓ NOT for CanadiansNOT for Canadians.Version: 7.34
✓ Not goodBad.Version: 6.18.2
✓ STILL freezes too much.The title pretty much sums up the review. Adult as others who have given a low rating have mentioned with all other hardware/software/connectivity issues ruled out on my end this app still continues to be unusable 50% of the time. This is not a new app, and this is not new technology. There’s really no excuse for how poorly this at performs at this point. I’m just glad that the SiriusXM app has an MSNBC audio stream, because WATCHING the live stream through this requires far more babysitting then any other video streaming app currently available. On a secondary, less important but still irksome, note, there’s been a noticeable increase in the amount of time from the original airing of a specific show to that show’s replay being downloadable via the app. Whether that’s an issue on the networks end or not, I couldn’t tell you, but it diminishes the iOS experience nonetheless. This will be the third time I’ve tried to download/use the app regularly, and likely my last. VERY disappointed..Version: 6.10.0
✓ 🔧🩺🤷♂️Fix needed on live streams on a IPad🩺🥺😩😰It been a year, and you still can’t stream on a IPad Pro using a Apple AV Adaper. Please tell the software staff to call CNN and FOX news, there software staff knows how to make a IPad work with Apple AV Adaper. Please hire some better programmers with the skills or care about there users problems🤷♂️🙏🏽😩😴 This problem started in April 2020 after an app. update, when using a Apple AV Adapter on a ipad. (Still waiting on the fix😥)The non live shows stream okay👍. The live shows were showing the symbols >|| and that’s changed since the last update, now I get the black screen of death🖥. Ive been waiting on a fix in one of the updates. Now, does anyone know about the problems, or have the wisdom to fix the problem. Please fix and hire some more app. programmers.🔧🤷♂️🔧😳🔧🤪🩺🧐🔧🤔🩺😯🔧.Version: 7.21
✓ Useless in CanadaDownload, tried to use, couldn’t. It’s useless in Canada. I do not recommend it and immediately deleted the app. It shouldn’t be available in Canada when we aren’t able to use it..Version: 7.37
✓ Worst-performing video app ever.Video frequently freezes and degrades in quality, even when you’ve confirmed via Speedtest that you have an adequate high-speed connection, whether Wi-Fi or cellular, and when other video apps work just fine. Its latest behavior is to un-sync video and audio, layer two audio streams atop each other, skip back and forth between the broadcast and the video, and log you out after a few days when you haven’t used the app. This is in addition to the fact that the app repeats commercials ad nauseam and doesn’t allow you to buy access separately from your TV provider. MSNBC, please get with the program! Get a new team of developers, or a modern IT infrastructure, or something. This performance is so awful that I’ve just deleted the app from my iPhone and my iPad. I never write reviews but this latest inexcusable performance has set me over the edge..Version: 6.3
✓ Fed up with ads, deleting the appAn 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..Version: 7.16
✓ Need free app — like CNNI just deleted my online CNN app (after the Trump town hall) & decided to try MSNBC News. So looks as if you have NOTHING for watching your network in Canada, free, on a cell phone? And I can only access your shows through our tv streaming service Crave on Bell — which isn’t listed with your US tv providers. You are missing a golden opportunity post-Town Hall to give customers in Canada exposure to your channel.!.Version: 9.4.0
✓ Eh CanadaI can watch Msnbc on TV in Montreal. What worries you so about my watching on my iphone? Ooooooh.Version: 6.18.0
✓ Useless in CanadaCable providers in Canada not listed so can’t use it. Pity..Version: 9.1
✓ No support for Canadian viewers.MSNBC has been slowly shifting content off YouTube to their dedicated app while restricting said app to US viewers only. Massive disappointment..Version: 7.19
✓ MSNBC Live TV No Longer Works for IOS UsersUntil a few weeks ago, I had no problem accessing live TV and podcasts on the MSNBC app, but suddenly the app stopped working. The problem is that an unresolvable error message now appears related to Location Services. The app says that Location Services must be enabled, but IOS 13 and its 13.1 and 13.2 updates do not allow toggling anymore between the “Ask” and “Allow When Using App” options. As soon as I click on the When Using the App option, it just keeps going back to Ask - rendering the MSNBC app useless. I spent hours working with MSNBC TVE tech support trying to resolve the problem to no avail. Their instructions, however, did enable me to restore access on my iPhone 7 Plus to live TV on my CNN app. I guess I will only be able to watch MSNBC (which I strongly prefer to CNN) on my TV until this glitch is fixed via an app update..Version: 6.18.2
✓ HOW LONG?How long will it take for NBC/MSNBC to catch up to your competitors and develop 1) an app that works decently, and 2) an app that actually can work on the AppleTV for live viewing? I go camping during the summer and stay at RV parks for extended periods of time; lots of those places don’t include MSNBC in their cable tv line-up. Lucky me, I have a WiFi booster and an AppleTV. YAY! Now, if only there were a MSNBC app on the AppleTV so I could just watch live from the app ... nope. Ok, I’ll pull it up on my iPad and mirror ... what do you mean I don’t pay for this channel, I have DirectTV? Oh wait, now I *do* pay for the channel ... oh, look, now I don’t again ... oh, spinning circle of death ... frozen on Chris Hayes’ face. This is ridiculous. You want to know how to do it, wander over to CNN and see how their app works. (And that one’s not even that good). Shoot, look at ANY network that has live watching capabilities. Just do it, for crying out loud..Version: 6.11.0
✓ Like it but frustratedI like the app but am absolutely frustrated with it now. Did the update yesterday and now cannot watch it “live”. I haven’t updated on my iPad because I don’t know what the problem is and it Is difficult for me to find where to get help. Tired of all of the freezing (used cellular data to bypass this from searching for connectivity), tired of message saying can’t view and need to use cellular data (which I already do), tired of the repetitiveness of the commercials (if I’m already signed in with my paid provider, why so many commercial?) and the same commercial can play back to back up to 5 times, tired of the freezing (buffering screen) I have to close out the app, swipe up to remove as prior viewed and restart. By the time I do this then I miss what I was watching. Like watching morning joe on my way to work and deadline whitehouse on my way home. I can no longer watch this due to the new update. Hopefully I’ll be able to get someone to address otherwise I have to find a new channel to watch. Thanks..Version: 7.18
✓ Sucks!!Can’t watch it in Canada!!!.Version: 7.16
✓ Absolute Worst AppMSNBC’s app is absolutely THE WORST app of it’s type I have ever come across!! Live streaming is near impossible, with all of the freezing screens and restarts. I try to use it 4-5 days a week and over the last 2 years or more I haven’t live streamed a single episode all the way through. Just today Hardball stopped 20 mins in and never recovered! To watch the rest of the show I’ll have to wait until after either 10pm (or midnight, whichever is their policy). I try to watch on different computers & phones with different internet connections but it makes no difference at all. The problem lies solely with MSNBC! Streaming past shows (not live) is somewhat better, but the selection of available episodes is ridiculously small. Like today (a Tues) the only available past episode is yesterday’s (Monday’s). Why would they not have at least 1or2 eps from last week. But this is their norm, not the exception. If I’m already paying for the service why do I have to wait so late to replay today’s episode, especially considering that their crappie service’s failure is the reason I’m forced to watch the replay in the first place, instead of watching it live. MSNBC: Please spend a little less on fancy new sets at 30 Rock and a little less on big salaries, and invest in an app that actually works...like your competition does. Potential customers: Request and demand a better service from MSNBC before signing up for this app!!!.Version: 6.14.1
✓ Great programs HORRIBLE APPUPDATE: 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.).Version: 7.38
✓ UselessNo information or news at all. Simply hawking their streaming services..Version: 9.3.0
✓ Fake newsI remember when news wasnt only about white people being racist or trump being racist. Boring brainwashing isnt news.Version: 6.18.2
✓ Dr speaking on Chris Jansen showDr advising people on excessive heat safety. While it is appreciated for his advise, I heard him considering only a portion of the public. He advised to stay indoors! What about those of us who do not have the luxury of air conditioning or even a swamp cooler, Dr?? It is far cooler outside than inside my trailer during this heat of 108! I am 72 yrs, on a fixed income. I love MSNBC, but am disappointed in the consideration of only those who live with a greater means being advised by the Dr. You are not living up to your general agenda MSNBC. The poor have been left out of the conversation here. I am educated. I care deeply for all of our citizens and I have contributed to the betterment of our fellow human beings, animals and our shared mother earth for many years now, yet I am not worthy of the Dr’s regards for my health safety in this heat crisis? Shame on you MSNBC. You dropped the ball on this one today. 😟.Version: 9.5.0
✓ Can’t add my tv provider as it’s not on the listI live in Canada and have Telus as a tv provider but I can’t add it as it’s not on the list to select from on this app. A bit frustrating .a.Version: 7.21
✓ Streaming Access to MSNBCUnless 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..Version: 7.39
✓ MSNBC AppThe MSNBC app lasted about a minute on my device. I checked what I was most interested in, particularly past Maddow episodes, and encountered just hooks after hooks and “what-about-these?” diverting & burying my original choices. Too many cobwebs in the cave. Deleted the app..Version: 7.35.0
✓ Cannot useWhile available in the Canadian store, it cannot be used. Also appears it has an interface interrupted by web ads. Why is it even here?.Version: 7.18.2
✓ It works usually but could use a lot of improvementsI have just started using the app on my iPhone recently. My two biggest recommendations are that I wish the recent shows were uploaded on a more timely basis. Although I just discovered that it’s possible to watch live shows too, in conjunction with the fact that it seems to automatically detect my cable (and internet) provider and that helps a lot. The biggest improvement I’d like to see is the availability of watching the archives of previous episodes of my favorite shows, such as MTP and Lawrence O’Donnell, and Rachel, etc. Make the app have similar functionality as you get with listening to podcasts from PBS!.Version: 6.18.2
✓ Not available in CanadaNo option to log in through Canadian service providers..Version: 7.6.0
✓ I listen to msnbc because it’s news I trustI’m not interested in much chit chat among the women concerning styles & home modeling. I want news from Washington & around the country. We have been so ruined by Donald Trump & his family. While some freeing up of commerce needed to happen. This Cluster B snake oil salesman needed to be stopped & media just feed him. Yes white disenfranchised men & their families were feeling like he was a hero. He was not nor was he capable of doing anything to bring us together. MyConnell was a prime enable & Jim Jordan also fell for the lies. The man is an anti social psychopathic narcissist. Don’t listen to the words watch the behaviors. He like Bernie Madoff (of sad memory) need to win prison for the destruction they’ve wrought to the American Fresno of our forefathers. Take it from someone who evaluates such I evaluate for the State of NJ..Version: 7.22.1
✓ Love the Shows Hate the AppI have been waiting for years for them to fix the app so it doesn't freeze or stall but it's only gotten worse and now I can't even use it at all because they keep rejecting my attempts to sign in with my service provider. That didn't work I tried to link to my TV provider on my phone and iPad. The one you use for all the TV linked apps and IT STILL will not work. It asks me to sign in with my TV provider on their app AGAIN and then gives the same error page I started with 🤦🏿♀️I've tried installing and uninstalling and using my browser and all the things. It's like they don't want me to watch their shows. MSNBC really really needs to work this out. Like I said I was frustrated years ago with having to sign in every two seconds and have things stall but now I CANT WATCH at all. This is really bad..Version: 9.6.0
✓ CanadianUseless app, see ya!!.Version: 7.29
✓ It’s always been a bad appI’ve been using this app for years, it’s never been good. On the iOS apps, if you pause the video at any time and then resume playback, it will continue to pause/play (buffer perhaps) until you restart the app. Then it will lose your place in the program. Sometimes and often, the app will just crash and lose your place in the stream. The AppleTV app is even worse. You still have all the pause/play issues, but just the user experience is bad. The screen is SUPER bright blue, it’s uncomfortable on the eyes. The trackpad is inverted, that’s annoying. Plus it has all the playback bugs described above. Those playback issues also occur when watching the desktop version of the player. Moral of the story, you pretty much have to dedicate the time of any whole show to watch it smoothly - no pausing, and hope it does crash..Version: 7.19
✓ Not satisfied...The app ask me to sign into a provider so I can live stream and watch. I’m in Canada and my provider is BellAliant and it’s not offered. Yes, I understand the network is American but I’m able to select BellAliant as my provider for the CNN app and I can then live stream. Maybe connect with MSNBC or something....Version: 6.4.1
✓ Not available in CanadaNot available to Canadian providers like shaw, rogers, bell and telus.Version: 7.7.0
✓ MSNBC is too controlling - why?MSNBC is by far my favorite TV channel because I feel the people’s hearts in the truths they tell me most every day. I love them and trust them to do their best to tell the truth as they see it. The company itself, though, has become very controlling of its website and now this app. I used to be able to watch for free on the web - now I have to have already bought into some of the most expensive cable programming available to watch any of it! Just over a year ago I could upload segments for free and now it is very complicated to do so - they often even leave off the dates of the segments! And the app - it’s cool to be able to watch it on another device but you’re forced to watch the commercials and after a point you can’t even skip forward! Is it really this important to you to make so much money off of us, NBC? Don’t you already make enough? And why does everyone have so much to say that they can’t allow their guests to be greeted properly? Why is Rachel the only one left who allows each guest the courtesy of saying hello and good-bye? Not relaxing. The rudeness is stressful. Thank you for hiring such wonderful, loving truth-tellers, MSNBC. I would like you to make them more easily available to everyone. Doesn’t our country need and deserve that? Thank you, Ruth Virginia.Version: 6.18.0
✓ Keeps Asking for Location but Can’t EnableI’m running iOS 12 and the app keeps asking for my location to be turned on, but there is no place to turn it on in either the MSNBC settings inside of the settings app, or in the Location Services section of the privacy settings. This has been happening for the last 3 months that I’ve been running the iOS 12 beta, and I reported the issue months ago to the developer so they could fix it by the time the seed for iOS 12 was released, but they haven’t fixed anything. Also the feed drops continuously, on all of my iOS devices, whether I’m on cellular or my 1gbit home WiFi. And every other time I open the app it asks me to sign in with my service provider, an issue that’s been happening for over a year and hasn’t been fixed..Version: 6.14.1
✓ Apple TV App works like it was developed by Fox NewsI 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..Version: 7.38
✓ Don’t bother downloadingApp asks me to login, I say sure after all I purposely added the channel and pay for it thru my cable provider. Nope not listed, this is just wrong! Shouldn't even be allowed to offer app in Canada if they don’t even offer it to paying customers!.Version: 6.18.2
✓ IPad sideways viewI love watching this app with my head turned to one side…get with the times…app deleted.Version: 7.37
✓ What about Canadian subscribers?It’s extremely disappointing that my television provider isn’t listed for sign in. Only American providers are listed, unlike the CNN app which lists both American and Canadian. Why even offer the app in Canada?.Version: 7.5.1
✓ Not that many issues, but not perfect - And the Ad Serving.. WOW!Unlike many people, I have a few problems but can generally watch consistently and with few problems. It might freeze for a while, but a quick close and re-open fixes that. I use an iPad 4 and an iPad 2 with little or no issues. One thing tho' that baffles me completely is the ad serving. Every single ad break features truncated ads, either missing the beginning or end. I have been streaming all day today and pretty much every ad, in every break since I started watching Morning Joe, has cut off after about 20 secs, and before the ad ever declares who it is for, or comes in in the middle of the ad. I was an ad buyer for a while and I certainly wouldn't have been happy paying for primetime slots that never serve my client's ad to the point of the brand payoff. I want MSNBC to succeed and if they can't even do the fundamentals like serving ads for a full 30 secs, God knows how they will prosper. Update: V6.0.2 Wow! So far SO much better. Good job with the new UI and all the layout and new features. Keep it up. Thank you for putting some real effort behind this update. I have always been able to stream, but the quality and latency was pretty bad, and the stream would often hang for many, many minutes, if it worked at all... BUT.. This version seems to have solved a lot of these issues and also given us AirPlay (thank you!!!). Keep on keeping on MSNBC..Version: 6.15.0
✓ 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!!!!!.Version: 7.5.1
✓ Give us AccessMake this available in Canada. And I will give you five stars..Version: 7.16
✓ No way to watch live TV - Canadian providers unavailable!The title says it all. Doesn’t even have Bell Canada, let alone my provider! USELESS!!!.Version: 7.16
✓ Daily user, daily problemsI watch MSNBC every day and love the programming. The app (which I use on Apple TV) is almost unacceptably glitchy. The ad serving is the primary objective of the app, so get ready to see the same Trulicity spot three times within a commercial break. Or Febreze - four or five times in a row. Often, you’ll realize the commercial break has been going on for over four minutes, just to restart the stream to discover you’ve missed most of an important interview. They are also very casual about programs on demand. Usually last night’s programming is available the next morning, but sometimes? Just not there. And there is no one by google or any other method to complain to. Hence this review..Version: 7.23
✓ Add providers in Canada pleaseWould love to be able to watch this!.Version: 6.14.0
✓ MSNBCI have use this app to watch primarily morning Joe and the news up until about 3 PM almost every day. About six months ago the app started freezing up so I went online, then that started freezing up. The last three days it’s impossible to watch it anymore, it freezes up, “initializes” or just plain quits I’ve done everything they’ve asked me to. Reinstalled the app, restarted my device, signed in and out of Dish, to no avail, I’m done. I cannot watch the shows I so love to watch. I got support six months ago, and they fix the problem on their end although I was blamed that it was on my end. Finally it was fixed and I was off and happy as a clam watching, once again, morning Joe every day along with Stephanie Ruhle and all the other great reporters. That ship has sailed. No support and I’m not able to watch either on my iPhone or my iPad. Super frustrating.Version: 7.19
✓ PayThe app should be available to those who do not have the cable or tv provider . Living in Canada & want to watch.Version: 7.19
✓ AdsI 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..Version: 7.6.0
✓ Spotty app for a major news outlet with many fails.MSNBC is a major news outlet. Why such an ok but not great app? Live steam doesn’t stream consistently. New archived show availability is inconsistent. When do last night shows that I missed post? 3am? Sometime tomorrow? Not at all? And then when they do post how long are they up for? 24 hours? 36? All week? It’s a crapshoot. Wish you would pick a formula and stick with it. But clearly there is no formula. It seems to arbitrarily depend on an intern who’s bad at their job. And why oh why is ever commercial break Ray Liotta talking about quitting smoking? I understand saturating the market might have its benefits. But I never smoked. Never will. And don’t need to hear Ray Liotta talk about it a dozen times and hour. Or that other one about opioid induced constipation? How many times an hour must we hear about that?.Version: 6.16.0
✓ Hard line to crossAlthough free to those who ‘already’ have a internet or streaming service, the ability to watch ( or effectively use) this site is extremely limited to viewing credits and when they are used up, even by accident (wrong episode for example) your credit is eaten up and you loose the ability to watch anything further without getting more credits (uncertain just how to do that) or link to your internet provider… but as was said at the outset, if you’ve already got…. What’s the point . Not going to jump over this hard line to cross, with little to no advantage. I’ll just record the cable and hope I’ve made the recording times correct. If not… sucks to be me… I know I know..Version: 7.35.0
✓ Essential and regularly aggravatingI’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..Version: 7.8.0
✓ Canadian Providers STILL unavailableDeleting this! In with Bell and I get MSNBC as part of my cable package. Lazy on there part that Canada is not included..Version: 7.5.1
✓ SadI 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..Version: 7.29
✓ Not better then fox.Over the top anti conservative bias. Raging hate..Version: 7.30
✓ No use to this Canadian!Follow MSNBC on the YouTube, and thought maybe this was the app for me! American politics is the most amazing and terrifying reality show on television, however I cannot access the content through any of my providers. Bummer!.Version: 6.18.2
✓ No AccessAnother Canadian who downloaded this app only to find there it’s basically useless..Version: 7.20
✓ CanadianLove the app, it seems that it is not available in Canada.Version: 6.18.0
✓ UselessThis app is only for people who have cable subscriptions in US, so it is not going to work in Canada. Canadian TV providers like Rogers, Bell, Cogeco, etc. are not in the list..Version: 7.16
✓ Love MSNBC but this app is more than frustratingMSNBC is my favorite news source. I like to have it on in my office. I don’t have cable in my office, so using the app on the Apple TV is the next best thing... EXCEPT i have to log into my TV subscription for authorization to use it EVERY two hours. After watching it for two hours it completely closes out the app, and I have to re log in. All the other apps I use like this that require a tv subscription login stay logged in for weeks without me having to re enter my info. This is beyond annoying and frustrating. Please fix this. I can’t for the life of me understand how this is beneficial for them. If my HBO app that I pay $15 a month for on its own doesn’t keep their app on such lock down, there is no reason why a news app should be set up this way. You’re losing potential viewers!!.Version: 7.21
✓ No Canadian cable linksThis app is useless to Canadians as there are no links to Canadian cable companies. So even though I have package on my cable plan at home that includes msnbc, I cannot get free streaming here because of lack of choice. Terrible.Version: 6.18.2
✓ Not happyIt won’t let me stream an episode so I can’t watch anything it’s a was off storage.Version: 7.10.0
✓ Provider not on listCanadians cannot access anything. Can’t watch even LIVE. Useless. I saw some CDN complaints in reviews from TWO YEARS ago and thought they must have fixed that by now. NOPE>.Version: 7.23
✓ IPad issuesUpdate: 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..Version: 7.11.2
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