CBS Apologizes After Billy Joel’s MSG Show Broadcast Was Cut Off

CBS has formally launched an announcement on Monday (April 15) after Billy Joel’s long-awaited live performance particular, The one hundredth: Billy Joel at Madison Sq. Backyard – The Biggest Area Run of All Time, was lower off in the course of the finish of Joel’s iconic ballad, “Piano Man.”

Within the assertion shared with Billboard, a spokesperson for CBS defined the mix-up, writing “A community programming timing error ended final night time’s Billy Joel particular roughly two minutes early within the Jap and Central Time Zones. We apologize to Mr. Joel, his followers, our affiliated stations, and our viewers whose viewing expertise was interrupted over the past tune. Due to the overwhelming demand from his legion of followers, BILLY JOEL: THE 100TH – LIVE AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN shall be rebroadcast in its entirety on CBS on April nineteenth at 9:00PM ET/PT.”

In line with viewers, the present was initially slated to run from Sep 11 p.m. on CBS, however the community’s dwell protection of the Masters golf match pushed again the beginning of the Joel live performance’s airing about half an hour, which meant that the climactic ending of the present was lower off for a lot of viewers to throw to the native information. Consequently, for a lot of followers, the display screen went black throughout 1973’s “Piano Man.”

Joel shall be again at MSG on April 26 and Could 9 for 2 extra gigs at his home-away-from-home, earlier than hitting the highway this summer season for a run of baseball stadium gigs that run by means of November.