The NBC App – Stream TV Shows Reviews

I grew up on NBC. I generally love their shows, from Seinfeld to Superstore. That “ding-ding-ding” is a sound I like. However, TheNBCApp is disappointing. Why? Because I cannot pay to use it or to not be bothered by commercials. I am a millennial, I have come to love that for 3-5$ dollars more a month I don’t have to watch commercials. Plus a subscription cost, perhaps you can fund some shows that have been cancelled that have a strong following, like giving us some form of closure on Dracula or Emerald City. By subscribing, to the NBC app, you can offer the news or sports as an added bonus. Alas, I can watch NBC news without any subscription. Which is great on your part NBC but as an app business model it’s not ideal. People like watching Nightly News. Additionally, if you want to stream original programming, just allowing people to subscribe at a cost can help fund aforementioned original programs. I had to login, with my mother’s Cable account in order to use TheNBCApp . Which is annoying, and should be unnecessary as regular TV is dying in most city areas. I would’ve paid 5-7$ a month just to watch NBC (WITH commercials 🙄) and I would’ve paid because it’s the only place to find some programs I love. C’mon NBC, it’s 2021. You should focus on your streaming platform, I thoroughly enjoy Peacock, why aren’t all of your shows on peacock!? I have to use two NBC applications ...

I use TheNBCApp at least 3 to 4 times a week to catch up on episodes of days of our lives because I can rarely watch it when it’s on live. Love that feature, and I’m very happy that TheNBCApp exists for that reason! However, I rarely use it for other shows, because I don’t have cable service, and therefore I’m locked out of many episodes. As someone else suggested, I would love it if you could earn credits or even pay a subscription to have TheNBCApp . The other issue that I consistently have when streaming an episode, is the video will freeze but you can still see the time counting, and when the video finally resumes you’ve missed several seconds of the storyline. It’s like the system is still moving ahead but the video is not. Maybe I should try reinstalling TheNBCApp ...not sure... I do regular system updates so not sure that would matter... In total I consistently watch/follow more shows on NBC than any other major network, so it really would be great if I had more access to programming on your app.

I have never written an app review before, but the most recent update to TheNBCApp has made me so frustrated. In general - its a great app to access lots of shows on demand, and I appreciate the deep library (though I’d like if previous seasons of many shows were carried so I could watch back episodes) but recently, the glitchiness of TheNBCApp is making my experience terrible. If I try to rewind using the 10 second rewind button, it will often go to commercial, and then pick back up 3-4 minutes ahead of where I was at - making that rewind button totally non-functional and also aggravating me as I have to continue to watch the same 5 commercials over and over again just to be moved forward in the show and have to rewind again to get back to my spot... then often rewinding gets me more commercials and it’s just... exhausting. Fix the issue, so shows can be streamed and rewinded. Also, I’d be happy to pay for a commercial free version of NBC. Will that ever be a possibility? It takes longer than it should to watch a single show because of the excessive commercials...

It’s a shame that this company was allowed the broadcast rights to the premier league soccer. NBC app never works and always glitches to where you can’t watch live tv on any streaming device, how can you have this main tv app be so bad when your NBC sports Gold (another program I have to PAY for for access to Premier league soccer) for the most part works fine. This has been an ongoing issue for over a year and still no fix. Consumers pay hundreds of dollars to them and they can’t correct issues that don’t have with other companies like ESPN app. If I am required to pay for access to premier league games you should allow me the ability to watch all games thru your companies various platforms, not having your NBC sports channel competing with the main NBC channel.

I’m sure if I was lodging a complaint to watch American football it would be fixed quickly but for soccer (the most popular WORLD sport) they won’t do anything about it. NBC I hope you see this and have a fix before the new year starts or you can expect more viewers will reach out to the premier league to have them look for new partners for broadcast rights!

Remember streaming TV in 2014?!? The NBC app is like a really bad version of that. Get ready to be so frustrated that you’d rather buy the episode from iTunes than have to use TheNBCApp. Here’s how it functions: press a button, wait 10 seconds to find out that you’re going to continue to wait. Uh oh! Did you press another button while you were waiting after pressing the first button?!? That’s gonna cost you a whole minute to get back to the main page. The LIVE tv menu is so, so great. So great in fact that you probably can’t figure it out because it doesn’t operate like anything you experience in our physical world. See, you expect an action and reaction in our shared experience. But in TheNBCApp, that doesn’t apply. There could be a reaction to pressing the down button, or there might not be. Or there might be a whole bunch. You will literally never know. But if you’re wrong you’ll ll have plenty of time to think about as you wait another minute to go back to the previous screen.

So I was using this and it was working for a while. I linked my tv provider and everything and it was working fine. Well today it wouldn’t let me watch an episode. It kept popping up the “link provider” screen (it does this a lot) I would click the link provider option and it wouldn’t play the episode. It would just go back to the screen where you pick the episode you want to watch. I click the episode and again click the link provider option. I did this several times before I got frustrated. I deleted TheNBCApp and reinstalled it. I was putting in the tv provider information and once it told me there were issues and to please try again later. I waited a bit and tried it and now it says “external system failure” and I don’t even know what that means. It worked great for a while. I’m just upset that it stopped now.

It’s so frustrating that out of maybe 40 episodes of a series, that you can only watch al few because you are locked out. All this is doing is making your customers disappointed about your service, henceforth, they just don’t bother with NBC.
Have you not read your reviews..? You should, because they speak even louder to my complaint. You have a lot of great shows so if someone wants to watch isn’t that what you’re suppose to provide?
So, please fix this and make your customers happy and satisfied. SERVICE brings repeat business. Don’t get away from this fact.
And now, I can’t use my own nickname on my review because it’s taken????? WHAT? So, why are we not allowed to use our own.
You seriously need to get rid of whoever is responsible for TheNBCApp and get someone who understands business models. Service and honesty. Start there.

Dear Dwayne Johnson
I truly love this Titan games show. My only question is why are we centered around the mid 20s generation? You are truly an inspiration to people to get fit to get healthy and to exercise. The most obese people are people of 50 years and plus. Why not inspire a 50+ titan games or a couples titan games? To me this would be highly inspirational to all of the world. You are an inspiration to many people from your days of wrestling to the days of the Titan games. I myself just turn 59 in the last two years lost 70 pounds you were one of my inspirations to do that. I feel that you would appear to a larger audience and two more of the world if you do something for a midlife generation then something that’s devoted to the younger generation just a thought would love to have feedback Love the show would love to see it get bigger.
Gary

I have the NBC App on my AppleTV and it is absolutely terrible. Here are my main problems with it:
1. There is no option to “favorite” shows that I frequently watch, so every time I want to watch a specific show, I have to scroll through the entire list of shows or go to search and type in the show I want to watch, which is a pain and is more time consuming than just going to favorites and clicking on the next episode of a favorite show.

2. TheNBCApp also forces me to verify my cable tv provider every time I want to watch something, whereas every single other app I use only prompts me to do this once upon initial sign in, if at all.

3. Integration with Apple’s TV app is rubbish. The TV app tracks shows you’ve watched throughout various apps and suggests the most recent episode or continuation of episodes/movies that you didn’t finish, all without leaving the home screen. With the NBC app, it usually doesn’t suggest the next episode at all or suggests shows I’ve watched already.

4. My last major problem with TheNBCApp is that it constantly freezes during the episode, so I have to exit the episode and then play it again. It would be nice to watch an episode straight through without issues.

I don’t recommend TheNBCApp. It’s easier just to switch back and forth between my cable box and AppleTV or watch a different network.

I love TheNBCApp , I love that I can watch past shows, and catch up on newer shows. My problem is that I feel like I spend most of my time watching commercials. Every time I go back to an episode that I was previously watching, I have to fast forward to find my spot. Once I hit play six commercials come on, then I find out I still need to fast forward more. I do, press play, and then six more commercials come on. Does 1 really need to see a Walmart commercial 26 times a day? Walmart is the last place I would shop LOL
PLEASE FIX the jumping that happened during episodes (while in playback mode), and the fact that it will not save my location within a show. I don’t have any issues with any of the other apps that I watch/stream on. They all work fine. It’s just this buggy NBC app.

TheNBCApp is good, but please next time try to play your own shows before the uploading: the last two episodes (E23 and E24 – semi-final) of "The Voice" having so much problems, the sound and picture are scattering like 5 or more times! You can see this even at the begging of the show, when Blake Shelton and Trace Adkins singing "Hell Right". And it’s not just me or my device or network connection – I tried to watch this episode on my computer, from browser, on official site (and even tried to find a WebRip of it), the same scattering and freezes. I couldn’t believe that company like that, NBC, uploaded defective copies of the show... I hope you’ll fix this problem soon and the final episodes will be without these problems.
P.S. Sorry for my English, it’s not my native language.

UPD: The Finale is great, and without glitches. Thank you.

I love that I have access to all of the NBC series’ and can choose older episodes to catch up. The one detractor I have found so far are the constant plugs for all the current NBC shows. The first 2-3 times I see a plug for a show I feel they have garnered my interest. After that I am starting to get annoyed. Please mix it up, I feel like I don’t want to watch Brooklyn 99 now after watching the same plug 10 times while binging 4 episodes of AP Bio. Maybe have multiple clips to plug a show to mix it up a bit. That being said it was awesome getting to delve into a show I was not able to watch last year. Who knows, maybe next year I will be watching Brooklyn 99 episodes and the NBC app will provide different clips of the new show they are plugging at that time.

Terrible business model. A lot of people use these apps because they are cable cutters, cord cutters, or whatever the proper vernacular is these days. The bottom line is that if you limit what people can watch because they do not have a cable provider, which I have not had in over a decade and never will again, it is not going to motivate them to get one. You lose viewers that way. In an age where most people use devices other than a TV to watch favorite shows, you would THINK networks like NBC would catch on, drop the provider requirement, and increase the amount of viewers on the platform. I noticed a week or so ago that I can no longer access episodes that I would have been able to watch (eventually). This is unfortunate because that's one less person being subjected to the constant barrage of advertisements that interrupt the show. I am sure advertisers will catch on...

I loved the snl app but of course NBC Universal had to kill it since they’re launching their entry in the streaming war ‘Peacock’ because what we needed was another way for NBC Universal to make money of consumers through advertising since Comcast/Xfinity is losing customers due to cord cutters getting fed up with increased cost but less content. Whoever came up with your SNL app hopefully was praised cause it was great. Whichever genius chose to cancel it and thought it was a good idea to have it’s content integrated into TheNBCApp minus the character and actor playlist or the ability took view casts by season shouldn’t be allowed to make big decisions anymore. Well it was fun while it lasted but yet again NBC proves they’re unable to see the value in what they have. Video quality sucked and literally more ads than are tolerable. One after every clip watched yeah TheNBCApp is being deleted as soon as I hit send on the review.

I first used the NBC app when my service providers app on demand was missing recent episodes of Chicago P.D. why IDK but I was able to find and play the missing episodes (others besides Chicago P.D. ) and while I enjoy just being able to access these shows ( and I have no streaming difficulties), I have to agree with some other comments that there COULD be a favorites menu, and NBC could go as far as CBS has and offer subscription access.
CBS currently has two subscriber options - one with less commercials (which I found to be an advertising stretch) and the other choice is COMMERCIAL FREE. People WILL pay for commercial free tv, especially if your network airs many of the shows they like to watch. Some things to think about NBC.

My family can’t afford cable, we just use streaming services... I used TheNBCApp to watch Heroes (one of my all-time FAVORITE shows, I couldn’t believe they had it on TheNBCApp , as it’s really old, let alone all of the seasons), but when I got to like the 4th episode it said I had to put in my cable information. I looked around and couldn’t find anything allowing me to purchase a subscription. I would seriously pay for this stuff, great shows on here. But there’s no options for subscriptions unless you pay for it through your cable provider. Get with the times NBC, HBO does it, so why can’t you? And taking back The Office when you guys know people won’t be able to watch the content they love on Netflix because you want to somehow make better bank through the cable companies? Really? Not impressed

I saw the thing in the settings that said don’t sell my information witch concerned me so then I clicked it and I said that you have to download a pdf for it not to sell your information I tried to do that and for some reason it would not let me download it so I was going to delete my account/profile so it just would make things easier... it would not allow me to delete my account/profile in fact it wasn’t even an option so then there was a button that said you could submit a question or contact them so they could help with any questions and TheNBCApp would not let me do this. I’m not very happy at all with TheNBCApp and would not recommend. All I could end up doing was logging out my profile and delete TheNBCApp witch I don’t think even makes a difference. Not happy and would not recommend if there was a 0 Stars I would use it.

“It’s a always fun when we get to watch a little TV between commercials.” - my husband to me as we are trying to watch a show from the middle of the episode.
Most times if we don’t finish an entire episode, TheNBCApp does not save our place (or saves somewhere mid-episode, but not where we actually are). If I am casting to the TV from my phone, most times there is no progress bar on my phone for me to change where we are so I have to disconnect from the TV to find my spot and then re-cast. Every time I slide the progress bar in the episode we have to re-watch a whole round of commercials. Just now, it took about 15-20 minutes (and multiple whole commercial breaks) just to get to our last watched spot. We watched about a minute of the show and then were blasted with another break of commercials. Once we finish this season of the show we’re watching, we’re done with TheNBCApp for good.

The show selection is really good on the NBC app, however, it has so many ads it’s unwatchable. As a recent example, in order to watch one 24 minute show, I had to watch 10-12 minutes of advertisements with no way to skip any of them. The commercials played before the episode, after the opening credits and throughout the episode. I’d rather purchase the shows I want to watch from iTunes than deal with constant and prolonged advertising for streaming. Some ads are understandable, just like broadcast tv commercials from the days of yore but this is overdoing it. If it weren’t for the constant ads, I’d watch TheNBCApp all the time. Since the ads have been so long, overwhelming and time consuming, I won’t be using TheNBCApp again.

The only reason I decided to download TheNBCApp is because the player on the internet doesn’t have a chromecast button, and casting the tab itself in order to view NBC on my tv has a slight lag that I wasn’t happy with. Now TheNBCApp itself is ok on its own, but again then only reason I downloaded it was for the chromecast feature. When casting, it works fine for the initial cast, however afterwards you cannot control any of the features: Closed captioning, volume, even playing, stopping or switching episodes. Sometimes if you close TheNBCApp and reopen it TheNBCApp will work fine for a few seconds, however after that it is not functional again. Defitnely going to uninstall TheNBCApp and use others that actually work once I’ve caught up on This is Us.

Honestly just take a look at ABCs app, obviously their developers were paid more, because there’s is flawless.

The glitchness of TheNBCApp is so annoying. Sometimes it saves your place of what episode your watching. Most of the time it doesn’t and you’ll have to go through the commercials again. And besides when you get a text and you’re watching a show you should reply to that text and once you do and return to TheNBCApp the player is all blacked out and you can’t watch the show. And it didn’t save your place, so you have to ext the player to watch through the commercials to get back to your place.
Additionally, shouldn’t a show be either a half hour long or an hour long on the network? It isn’t on TheNBCApp the commercials AT LEAST add five to seven minutes more. Which should show you how many commercials there are and when it doesn’t save your place, you have to go through that all over again. Especially, when the rewind button takes you to the commercial.
Finally, I got the NBC app because I wanted to watch shows at anytime, I have an antenna and not a provider. They force you to link your provider or to make an account, to get 3 free episodes. And when TheNBCApp loses your place and automatically says you’re on a different episode, gets pretty annoying.

The ONLY good thing about TheNBCApp is that you get the chance to watch stuff. But at what cost?

I, as well as several of my friends, are AT&T DirecTV customers. We have been without our local NBC channel WEYI-Channel 25 for over 4 months! It is difficult enough living in the Flint, MI area. Bad Water, high crime, and poor economic conditions. My wife and I were awakened this morning by the sound of gunshots! As bad as things are here, you would think that we should at least be able to watch local TV in the safety of our own homes. The kickoff game to the 100th year of the National Football League was held recently on NBC. My friends and I had to go to a sports bar, in a seedy area of town, in order to watch this game. The whole time we were there, in addition to being concerned about our personal safety, we were all complaining about AT&T, DirecTV, and NBC. It is difficult to comprehend how we can be without a local TV channel for so long. We feel like we are being held as hostages while NBC and DirecTV continue to argue and negotiate an agreement. It is like while mom and dad fight, the kids suffer. We also feel that we have all been continually paying for a service that we are not being provided with. This is so frustrating to us all. What do we need to do in order to be able to watch NBC when the new fall season begins? Please provide us with a solution so that we no longer feel like we are being held as hostages.

After setting everything up and going through the provider and MBCUniversal profile Set ups, not to mention having to agree to privacy policies and third-party partners to give over information just short of what I ate for breakfast this morning, I am only able to access a dozen or so shows that I’m not even interested in watching. No movies at all on any of the networks. I have done all of their suggested troubleshooting and 90% of the programming displayed on TheNBCApp gives video playback errors. All my other streaming apps work just fine. It’s not my Internet connection, it’s TheNBCApp . The error keeps tell me to try back later, uninstalling and reinstalling, turning on and off routers, checking speeds on routers, still nothing but still the dozen or so shows that I’m not even interested in watching. So after two days of try back later, I give up and am deleting it. Oh and here’s the best part you have to contact them by email to reestablish your privacy rights. It’s an obscure alpha numeric link embedded in the Privacy Policy text about a mile and a half scroll down on my cell phone. They’re too many other content options to waste time on TheNBCApp.

Hey NBC fans, sounds like there’s some “user” issues being projected onto TheNBCApp .

Some info that may resolve those,

For the “Can’t log into cable provider”,

You’ll need to get the providers password for “free” full episode streaming, that’s the fact, if cable is being paid for, TheNBCApp is a perk to watch your paid service channels when away from home so why would you want to pay twice? Ask the person whose cable profile you’re wanting to use what the password is cuz app developers can’t help you here .

To “App freezing” person, sounds like again it’s “user error”, try deleting TheNBCApp from the device you’re streaming from, cell phone/tablet, update that device to its most recent OS , that’s Operating System for non techie peeps, eg, iphone iOS 12.0.4, Settings>General>Update and run any updates, hows your Apple device gonna work if you’ve got it speaking an old language when TheNBCApp developers update their compatibility in their apps to be smarter than you’re devices OS?

For the little green guy users, Settings, well i’m not a fan of the little green guy os so hopefully you know how to update your own droid.

didn’t keep reading the posts on NBC app for more advice but I think TheNBCApp works as expected i especially like the speed in which the shows episodes are available!

Keep up the good work!

Overall, pleased with the flexibility to watch from anywhere with the known blockout/release limitations.
I have used TheNBCApp while traveling and at fixed locations other than home. The speed of your internet and the “look ahead cache” affect the seamless performance. The more memory your device has, the better the experience. For live fast action programs, the jitter is very obvious even with Premium WIFI and large buffering.
The application has “recall” issues when the entertainment is “cast” to another device (I.e., Smart TV or Chromecast). You can use the controls to “fast forward” while in the entertainment and all of the interim advertising will play as a bundle (someone needs to pay for the technology and equipment to stream). And you can rewind from within the entertainment as well.

Really enjoying TheNBCApp . Because of a new show I have never watched. Started watching a show I have never seen. "Taken"
I was looking forward to watching "The Blacklist." I could not watch it from Season One since you have to have detailed personal information to get into the last seasons of many shows. Since my husband is out of town and we are in the process of moving, I did not have any cable set up information as in passwords etc...
Due to this information required, many shows were limited for me. I am not one to start watching a night time drama series from Season Four. It is pertinent to start from the beginning of a story line.