Just tuned in to MSNBC. Where's Joy? All I see is UK soccer everywhere!

[KewlKat]

[demmiblue]

1. Her tweet:

Link to tweet

[KewlKat]

4. Thank you! I'll let hubby sleep in.

[femmocrat]

10. Hey, Joy deserves Mother's Day off!

I'm disappointed, but I'll cope. I'm flipping back and forth between CBS and ABC. There are worse things!

[Zoonart]

2. Beat me to it.

Why is there a soccer match on MSNBC? Has this ever happened before? Any sporting event on MSNBC. What's up?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. They did it for soccer before. Seems to be a handful of games repeated across all the NBC stations.

Damned annoying.

[pennylane100]

15. which one has Liverpool?

My son once flew from California to North Carolina and back after the game, just to see them play.

[OnDoutside]

21. And they are in the Champions league final in less than 2 weeks !!!

[pennylane100]

27. Yeah.

I bet tickets to that will be worth the crown jewels.

[OnDoutside]

28. Big bucks for sure. The club are opening the kop and the new stand on the night...

Bet that'll be full too !

[TheBlackAdder]

18. They aren't repeated, there's a dozen different game matches all being played at the same time.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

32. What great luck that NBC has exactly the necessary number of channels to carry them. :-)

[Ace Rothstein]

9. This happens every year the final week of the Premier League season.

All 10 games are scheduled at the same time and NBC uses all of their networks to broadcast them.

[Zoonart]

11. Ahhhhhhh, okay thanks.

[mcar]

3. It's the final day of British Premiere League soccer

So all the games start at the same time. Matches are being shown across the NBC network spectrum.

[Mike Nelson]

5. Bad move...

...by NBC. They have other channels covering soccer. If Joy takes a holiday, a sub should fill-in. MSNBC should be an all-news channel - not a part-time sports channel.

[Codeine]

30. They need all their channels

to cover all of the games today. Last day of the league all games get played simultaneously.

[malaise]

7. I just told my cable company a few words about this

They said something about updates and that we'd have M$NBComcast back up later. I thought it was just a local issue.

[Blue_Adept]

8. The horror! The horror!

A couple hours without the same things being said over and over and over and over on a Sunday morning.

MSNBC has covered sports before and ran Olympics and other events as part of their overall ownership by NBC.

Take it as a great opportunity to get away from the news for a bit. I saw some angry tweets about it and was like, if this is making you angry, you need to reevaluate things a bit.

[flotsam]

12. Actually it is a very valid complaint...

Just flip it over and ask yourself how happy you would be if you were paying for ESPN or Fox Sports and when you went to the channel there was nothing but a political debate.

[Blue_Adept]

22. Yeah, MSNBC always runs just news

Never anything but. Especially on the weekends.

You may just not be seeing the furor as someone else mentioned it on Twitter. There's actual anger.

It's like when your cable goes down for ten minutes and you have people demanding that they're credited for it on their bill. It's an overreaction.

[Ace Rothstein]

14. The Twitter meltdown over a cable news show being pre-empted is hilarious.

It is one weekend, folks. You can tune back in a few days from now.

[Tipperary]

17. Thank you.

This furor is cracking me up.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. Unplug for a while. Premiere is on various NBC, Olympic, E!, Oxygen, USA, Syfy and Bravo channels.

[Mariana]

16. My English husband just explained this to me.

The contract with NBC says every Premier League game is to be shown live. There are nine such games being played today, and because it's the final week of the season, all are being played at the same time. That means NBC has to pre-empt everything on nine channels for roughly two hours to broadcast all these games. It's halftime now, so it will be over in less than an hour.

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. Unfortunately, they're pretty meaningless, since just about everything has already been decided

Man. City won it weeks ago; the only question for them is whether they'll break a record or 2 more. There's one question about which teams qualify for which European competition, and a mathematical chance that one team currently in a relegation position could get out of that.

If it's not a legally binding contract, this really would be a weekend to talk about politics rather than soccer.

[Cartoonist]

19. My only regret

Is that I don't get Bravo so that I can't watch Tottenham.

[Ace Rothstein]

20. COYS!

[bluecollar2]

33. Sadly

Spurs won.

(I'm a Liverpool fan)

[Cartoonist]

34. Salah!

Fun to watch

[bluecollar2]

35. Not according to some posters on this thread...

Philistines...

[bluecollar2]

24. Liverpool is 3-0 up on Brighton on NBC

And Chelsea is down 3-0 to Newcastle on NBCSN

What's the problem?



YNWA

[OnDoutside]

26. And a 4-0 win !

[RandomAccess]

25. That's ridiculous.

I got up early (well, earlier than I wanted to), just for Joy -- WHAT a disappointment.

Thanks for asking so I could find out what's what.

[Gothmog]

29. AMJOY will be back next week

Link to tweet

[procon]

31. I don't expect to go to a news channel to watch a sports game anymore than

I'd turn to the golf channel for political commentary.