MSNBC 12+

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!

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.

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.

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.