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BBC needs to resolve advertising problems

A letter writer is unhappy with the service from ZBM and ZFB’s news programmes

Dear Sir,

I cannot understand, in the 21st century, that the two local TV stations can’t fix what appears to me to be simple problems with their broadcasts!

There isn’t much worth watching on TV these days, but I personally Iike to watch the nightly local news, the international news on CBS/ABC, and also the CBS Sunday Morning programme. (I’ve been watching CBS Sunday Morning for more than 30 years!).

These three TV shows are fraught with ongoing issues.

The programmes will freeze on ZBM/ZFB. Also, an unscheduled ZBM/ZFB ad will come on right in the middle of both the news and CBS Sunday Morning programmes, then the programme comes back, missing the important part of what you were watching. Then right after that, the scheduled ads will run. Of course, the ads never seem to have any of these issues interrupting them.

It seems to me that nobody from ZBM/ZFB ever watches the above programmes, as they would surely have tried to amend these issues by now.

I have called One Communications to see if they were aware of these issues. They advised me that they were and that they had been fixed.

Clearly they have not!

So, please let’s get these issues resolved as soon as possible. This TV watcher would be most grateful. Thank you for your anticipated attention to this matter.

Happy New Year!

WILLIAM MAYO

Warwick

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Published January 30, 2026 at 7:55 am (Updated January 30, 2026 at 7:55 am)

BBC needs to resolve advertising problems

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