Some warnings 24 users report an aggressive ad load. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 509 reviews, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 19 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 10.23.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-19 .
The store currently lists version 10.23.0, updated 2026-09-24.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Watch thousands of LIVE sporting events along with the latest episodes of your favorite NBC TV shows anytime with the new NBC Sports app!
Stream top leagues and live events from NBC Sports including:
• Sunday Night Football
• Sunday Night Baseball
• Olympic and Paralympic Games
• NBA
• PGA TOUR
• Premier League
• Big Ten Football & Basketball
• Notre Dame Football
• NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series
• French Open
• Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Breeders’ Cup
Never miss a moment from your favorite teams with NBC Sports Regional Networks.
• NBC Sports Bay Area and California - Warriors, Giants, 49ers, A’s, Sharks and Kings
• NBC Sports Boston - Celtics and Patriots
• NBC Sports Philadelphia - Sixers, Phillies, Flyers and Eagles…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Aggressive ad load: raised by 24 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 21 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.
509 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
MLB — Too many commercials. Some times during the live action of an inning.
Ridiculous App — If you want your app to be read. Why do you interrupt it with pop up video every 5 seconds? This app sucks! Total trash! Mike Florio should be ashamed of this terrible app! I’m deleting it now!
Frustrating interruptions. — The constant pop up videos (every 15 seconds) while reading articles is beyond annoying. The fact that the app takes over your device speaker is equally annoying. The articles are very good but the app went…
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 10.23.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-19 .
The store currently lists version 10.23.0, updated 2026-09-24.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
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nbc-sports-apple-542511686Assessed 2026-10-19 from 509 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.
This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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