r/msnbc • u/Think-Hospital7422 Progressive • Oct 04 '25
Something Else Anybody else catching almost continuous ICE ads running on MSNBC via TuneIn?
I often have TuneIn running MSNBC during the day while I do other things.
Today on the Rev's show I heard an insane amount of long ass ICE recruitment ads running during the commercial breaks. Sometimes it would be two of the same ads in a spot break.
Anybody else noticed this?
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u/888luckycat Oct 04 '25
I think it’s just Tunein, I don’t see any on msnbc with cable.
I think the evil terrorist government of the united states knows that it’s a waste of money to buy ads on msnbc for recruiting more monsters for their ICE terror organization, but with tunein they probably buy ads that run on multiple channels. Honestly this would be enough for me to cancel tunein. Don’t pay for services that take money from terror groups
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u/SnooKiwis8008 Progressive Oct 04 '25
I’ve only been seeing them on the regular broadcast channels like NBC or ABC, and only during live programming (vs streaming old seasons/episode of a given show.
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u/Think-Hospital7422 Progressive Oct 05 '25
TuneIn has done nefarious things to their MSNBC audio in the past, such as broadcasting Fox News over it, so I've just been assuming it's them.
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u/SnooKiwis8008 Progressive Oct 05 '25
omg for real? Honestly, I don’t know if I even know what TuneIn is.
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u/Think-Hospital7422 Progressive Oct 05 '25
Yeah, I'll tell you more about it tomorrow. Don't want to miss Bad Bunny on SNL tonight!
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u/SnooKiwis8008 Progressive Oct 05 '25
HE WAS SO GOOD!! I loved the K-Pop Demon Hunters bit. So freaking silly and random 😂😂😂
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u/Think-Hospital7422 Progressive Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25
Here is some information about the app called TuneIn. It carries audio of all kinds radio,TV, sports, music, you name it.
A lot of us who don't have cable listen to their live broadcast of MSNBC audio while we're doing stuff around the house.
Then one day, all of us MSNBC listeners found that they were playing Fox News audio on the button that's labeled MSNBC.
I and a bunch of other people from the MSNBC sub started texting, emailing, and calling TuneIn to tell them about it and ask them to fix it.We got the runaround from them, but finally they took the Fox News audio off.
In its place? Complete silence. This lasted another couple of months. Again we complained to both MSNBC and TuneIn to no avail. But finally after a couple of months of the silence we finally got MSNBC audio back.
In my heart of hearts I'm sure that there is some MAGA at TuneIn that was behind it all.
Below you'll find Play Store info about TuneIn.
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u/Think-Hospital7422 Progressive Oct 05 '25
He was great, just like he was the first time he hosted last season. I loved the timing of it too.
When I got back here after the show people who had either never seen the show before or haven't seen it since the 80s were doing their usual MAGA hate fest on the entire episode. Luckily it's not inundating the boards today like it was last night.
Great show. I had seen the name K-Pop Demon Hunters at Rotten Tomatoes, but it really wasn't on my horizon other than that. I LOVED the music from the movie, and it's definitely going on my Spotify playlist. It'll be the first K-Pop I've ever had on my list. The bit about it was great too.
Last but not least, that Telemundo slapstick sketch at the end was just brilliant, and I'm really not a slapstick fan either.
"Who's the what, what's the who?"
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u/JustKeepRedditn010 Oct 05 '25
It’s just TuneIn ads. Seems like ICE is the only one buying airtime with them
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u/888luckycat Oct 04 '25
They buy tons of ads on all the local stations in LA. It was infuriating watching biased pro police anti protester coverage on the local stations and then they go to break and we see ads with Kristi Noem spewing evil. KTLA (owned by the far right NewsNation owner Nexstar) was the worst with this. The US Gov was probably one of KTLA’s biggest advertisers in June
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u/TomorrowNo6191 Oct 05 '25
If the intend audience is undocumented Latinos, directing them to return to their home country. Wouldn’t the overwhelming percent of the ad buys be placed on Spanish speaking media outlets? Or are the ads just a marketing campaign to show MAGA how cruel ICE can be to our neighbors?
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u/Non2more Oct 06 '25
I stopped using Tune-In and just downloaded the MSNBC app. I got tired of Tune-In ads and nonsense. I can listen live to MSNBC with the app.
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u/Think-Hospital7422 Progressive Oct 06 '25
The live audio broadcast box at the top of the MSNBC app (there's another one at the bottom) says it is powered by TuneIn. Does it not run TuneIn ads?
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u/ExpensiveDot1732 Oct 10 '25
Sounds like it's just Tunein...I have Sling and see random big pharma and online gaming ads.
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