News for Wednesday, November 12, 2014

• WKRG-TV began having programming about their sixth annual "Great Toy Drive" on a regular basis this past Monday, November 10th, such as report about members of their news department shopping for toys to donate to the drive, reports about visitors of the station who had donated to the drive (such as a singer named Jimmy Wayne), and live broadcasts of the part of the broadcast facility where the toys for the drive were to be kept (the "News 5 Toy Center"). 

• WALA-TV had said the phrase, "Your most local news at 5:00 p.m." spoken on more than occasion in their local news programming recently; mainly by members of their news department promoting (or doing "teases") for news reports to be broadcast after commercial breaks for their local news programming. 

• One of the news presenters on today's edition of WKRG-TV's local morning news program ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") used a phrase frequently said by news presenters on WPMI-TV's local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") while presenting a report about some fires that occurred in Mobile earlier in the day: it was "while you were sleeping" (the same phrase was used in a written version of the report for the official World Wide Web site for WKRG-TV).