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Hulu, NBC Experience Glitches During Super Bowl Telecast (theverge.com)
Variety reports:
NBC's coverage of Super Bowl LII briefly went dark for nearly 30 seconds on Sunday night. NBC released a brief statement attributing the outage to an equipment failure... "We had a brief equipment failure that we quickly resolved," the statement read. "No game action or commercial time were missed." The outage happened during a commercial pause in the action between the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles.
And anonymous reader shared another story from The Verge: Hulu's live TV subscription service cut off the end of tonight's Super Bowl in some markets during the climactic final moments of the Eagles/Patriots game. Tom Brady was making a last-ditch push down the field in hopes of tying the 41-33 contest when Hulu customers lost all video and audio from NBC and U.S. Bank Stadium. Not everyone experienced the abrupt cutoff, which occurred at approximately 10:00PM ET. But those who did received an error screen before the game's conclusion. Error messages ranged from "no content available" to one that said the game couldn't be shown due to rights restrictions. Complaints immediately surged on Twitter and Reddit... In a tweet, the company said there had been "a technical issue" and said users could restart their Hulu app to restore the game feed.
And anonymous reader shared another story from The Verge: Hulu's live TV subscription service cut off the end of tonight's Super Bowl in some markets during the climactic final moments of the Eagles/Patriots game. Tom Brady was making a last-ditch push down the field in hopes of tying the 41-33 contest when Hulu customers lost all video and audio from NBC and U.S. Bank Stadium. Not everyone experienced the abrupt cutoff, which occurred at approximately 10:00PM ET. But those who did received an error screen before the game's conclusion. Error messages ranged from "no content available" to one that said the game couldn't be shown due to rights restrictions. Complaints immediately surged on Twitter and Reddit... In a tweet, the company said there had been "a technical issue" and said users could restart their Hulu app to restore the game feed.
I would mod you up, but I hate both Trump and the NFL equally and so I want to speak up here.
I hate the NFL because about 25 years ago I got sick and tired of "my" team losing because the owner seemed more interested in making money than winning, which is why that team doesn't exist anymore and never went to a Super Bowl .
It was only "my" team in the sense that I went to a bunch of games and watched them on TV when I wasn't there in person. I'm sure nobody on the team would know who the hell I was.
Anyway it does get tiresome hating on Trump so much, but if he wasn't the president I'd probably get tired of hating on Hillary instead. And I'm confused how to feel about the result of this Super Bowl. I grew up hating the Eagles, but I never had any love for the Patriots either. Actually, I'm not confused at all. I feel so indifferent about it that I wrote this rant here to show everyone how much I don't care.
So the Patriots lost the Super Bowl? I blame Donald Trump.
I also blame Trump for the crabgrass on my lawn.
It's a hard job hating Trump so much and I do sincerely hate him, but it gets really hard to complain about how well the stock market is doing (yeah, I know it's been down this week but overall?)
What I really want to know is if any players kneeled for the National Anthem and if they did, did President Trump tweet about it?
And was the crowd at the Super Bowl as big as the one at Trump's inaugural address? Probably not. I was told nobody watches the NFL anymore.
I also was never a fan of the Spice Girls, but I heard they're getting back together - it's probably Trump's fault as well.
* I probably deserve to be modded "flamebait" for this, but I'm just mostly expressing frustration at the system.