For the past hour, I've been trying to listen to MSNBC via TuneIn.

[ariadne0614]

With the exception of a few brief moments of regular programming, all I get is a maddening repetition of, “The station you are listening to is experiencing technical difficulties. We apologize for the inconvenience. Your program will return in a few short moments. Please stand by.”

Anyone else? Is it paranoid to wonder if they are censoring Ali Velshi?

[dawg day]

1. Tune-in always "tunes out" after a few minutes for me

I always have refresh the page on my phone, and start over.

I take it this "technical difficulty" isn't usual for you?

[ariadne0614]

4. It happens frequently, but never for a solid hour. n/t

[hlthe2b]

2. I am able to sstream it on iphone right now (7:08AM MT) That happens from time to time.

I have noticeed it seems to happen less often with CNN. Maybe just coinincidence?

[ariadne0614]

6. Hm. You're feeding my paranoia that MSNBC is being targeted.

I wonder if it happens to Faux Noise.

[hlthe2b]

7. I don't conclude that. I listen a lot on long walks with the dog.

Most of the time, I am able to listen. I just don't think their MSNBC source stream is as stable.

[ariadne0614]

9. Don't mind me. I didn't mean to imply you share my dark suspicions.

These days “paranoia runs deep.” It helps to have the DU community to stay on track. Thanks!

[hlthe2b]

10. Well, if you mention posts on twitter or Facebook, I'd share your not unreasonable fears.

[procon]

3. I had the same problem.

TuneIn always works without a hitch, but I'm also having connection problems with my streaming TV apps too, so maybe it's the internet.

[ariadne0614]

5. It seems okay now.

I’ll have to check out the podcast of Ali’s first hour when it’s available. From what I could glean, he was covering some hot topics.

[Niagara]

8. There's an abundant amount of shortages that happened from early this morning.

Here's a full list from Down Detector. If one can find the map of the shortages, it looks like a global problem. I was thinking that it could be a satellite problem or maybe a solar flare.




https://downdetector.com/archive/

[ariadne0614]

11. Thank you! Now I feel better. n/t

[Niagara]

12. You're welcome.

[displacedtexan]

13. I had to do a hard reset of the Sling app during Velshi.

Everything else worked (Netflix, Prime, Hulu, & local antenna channels), but Sling is our Xfinity replacement option. I had to find the actual EXIT and start over. It's working now.

[flamin lib]

14. I stream MSNBC through a number of websites.

Favorite is 2ndruntv.com. Usually very reliable and will stream uninterrupted for days. Not today, Very glitchy and encounters errors on their server and on my browser.

I've also used livenewsnow.com, livenewsmag.com and Planetnews.com, noneof which are as reliable as 2ndrun and they also have a lot of buffering and errors.

No idea what's going on.

[ariadne0614]

16. Interesting.

I’ve been wondering about options to TuneIn, and appreciate your input.

[Generic Brad]

15. That happened to me yesterday

I gave up and moved onto YouTube.

[ariadne0614]

17. I have a different issue with YouTube on my iPad.

I get a popup alert saying, “YouTube crashed. Would you like to contribute anonymous crash reports for this and future crashes to help us fix issues like this? Yes/No”

The screen behind the alert is greyed out, even though it will play the content of whatever link I clicked before the alert popped up. This has been going on for months. I don’t trust the alert, so I won’t click Yes/No. Sigh.