diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/tunein.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/tunein.py
index 8b9b64763..88f5200d0 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/tunein.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/tunein.py
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ class TuneInBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
         stream_data = self._download_webpage(
             streams_url, content_id, note='Downloading stream data')
         
+        if stream_data.startswith('('):
+            stream_data =  self._search_regex(r'\((.*)\);', stream_data, 'stream info')
+
         streams = json.loads(stream_data).get('Streams')
         
         is_live = None