MADAM – I was absolutely disgusted with ITV’s coverage of the Saturday/Sunday women’s/men’s finals at Roland Garros French Open.

We just about had one game of four-six minutes before the next slot of incredibly stupid mindless adverts. The final insult was that ITV 1 decided to end the programme at 5.30pm.

Being a dinosaur, my telly is colour but I don’t ‘do’ ITV 4. So, the final game of five to six minutes was lost to me, that was the decider making it 6 to 4 in the final fourth set, with a win to Nadal.

The dear old BEEB often goes on with programmes under these circumstances... and flash up along the bottom, ‘news will follow after end this piece’. I gather many folk now record all programmes so when they watch them later they simply fast-forward the adverts.

Guess I will simply stop watching ITV, Good Morning Britain and Channel 4; so my licence just covers BEEB 1, 2, 3, 4.

Martin Hancox

Stroud