The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

ZNS - Zephyr Nassau Sunshine, The Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas - is a national disgrace Bahamians can't help but feel ashamed of.

I would even go as far as saying that ZNS is perhaps the worst television station on the planet.

Why? Because their programming is just plain awful. Really.

Now that most Bahamians have worthy options in the form of Cable Bahamas and satellite television, what purpose does ZNS serve?

Why watch ZNS at all, other than to see the evening news, junkanoo, election rallies, and probably the Hugh Campbell basketball tournament?

In fact, with Cable 12 and JCN - Jones Communication Network, cable channel 14 - why would anyone watch ZNS, period?

I am currently one of the few people in this country who doesn't have cable service, and as a result, I've had to either buy DVDs or bear watching ZNS to keep myself entertained.

Watching ZNS on Sundays - or any other day for that matter - is comparable to torture.

I can understand that it is Sunday, and we are indeed a "Christian nation" (really?), but there's only so much church services featuring bad singing and pastors screaming to the top of their lungs despite having a microphone (or rather, because of it) you can take before it becomes an annoyance.

ZNS realises this, or claims to realise this, which is why they also put on movies on Sundays. But these movies aren't any better, because they're either

a) movies you've already seen a thousand times;

b) extremely boring; or

c) an extremely boring movie you've already seen a thousand times that was made in the 1980s or very early 1990s.

ZNS has made showing the same thing over and over again an art form.

This Sunday, I witnessed ZNS's legendary awfulness at its finest: After waiting a whole week to see the continuation of a fact-based late night movie where a US government agent was about to shoot a dog belonging to an anti-government extremist, instead of showing what happened, ZNS played The Same Episode all over again!

I decided to watch the same episode, hoping that maybe this time they'll show what happened. They didn't. They just did the "to be continued" thing for the second straight week.

Whoever wins the upcoming general election, please, please do something about this Looney Tunes TV station. Either start over, or just break the whole thing down and put a school or hospital there.

SANDILANDS VILLAGE STRIDER

Nassau,

February 13, 2012.