CBS Apologizes for Cutting Off Billy Joel Special at Worst Possible Moment -- Will Rebroadcast Full Concert

CBS Apologizes for Cutting Off Billy Joel Special at Worst Possible Moment — Will Rebroadcast Full Concert


CBS has apologized for cutting off the last few minutes of Sunday night’s Billy Joel concert broadcast and now says it will re-air the show with the final minutes intact.

Viewers were furious that the show, Billy Joel: The 100th — Live at Madison Square Garden, abruptly ended just as the singer was belting out the final verse of his hit song “Piano Man.”

The broadcast, which was announced in Feb., was filmed on March 28 at Madison Square Garden and featured his 100th performance at the venue. But the celebration of Joel’s big night was overshadowed by CBS’s “mistake.”

Viewers in half the country from the Central and Eastern times zones were furious when the show cut to local news before Joel

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