By Ed Mazza, HuffPost | Enraged Billy Joel fans put network big shots on blast Sunday night, after a televised concert was cut off in the middle of his best-known song. Viewers who had been waiting for the longest time for the CBS broadcast of the 100th concert of Joel’s residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden had to wait just a little longer when it was delayed by the network’s extended coverage of golf’s Masters Tournament.
Then, toward the end of the show, as Joel performed a rousing version of “Piano Man” with the MSG audience and fans at home singing along, viewers in many cities saw their screens cut to black, followed by local news:
Awful Announcing’s comment: Viewers throughout the Eastern and Central Time Zones had the broadcast of the Billy Joel concert cut off, mid-Piano Man.
Evidently, CBS was no longer in the mood for a melody.
At least one station offered both an apology and an explanation.
“As a man who grew up right next to Billy Joel’s hometown, who went to The Last Play at Shea, it was my duty to apologize to everyone about cutting off our telecast of Billy Joel tonight,” Evan Closky, sports director of 10 Tampa Bay, said on X, the former Twitter. “Not to get into the weeds, but there was a special report after the Masters and it wasn’t accounted for by the powers that be beyond this building.”
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Go here to read the rest of the story – and the very angry – and humorous – comments:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cbs-pulls-plug-billy-joel-064335651.html
UPDATE: The Billy Joel Show will be shown again TOMORROW NIGHT, April 19th starting at 7:00 p.m. on CBS (Channel 4 – Denver)
Photo: Billy Joel | From his Facebook page, courtesy of Mini’s Memories
CBS Pulls The Plug On Billy Joel At Worst Possible Moment, And Fans Are So Pissed
