News for Wednesday, February 4th, 2015

• WPMI-TV and their companion station WJTC-TV still had plans for broadcasting live Carnival parades expected to take place in Mobile's downtown area between this Thursday, February 5th and the Tuesday of February 17th (Fat Tuesday).

• Today's edition of WPMI-TV's local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") had a live interview conducted by satellite with the member of the House of Representatives of the United States representing the first congressional district of Alabama (his video was not displayed in its proper aspect ratio or picture format)

• This past Tuesday's (February 3rd) edition of WPMI-TV's local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") had their assignment manager (Tom Russo) saying they were getting calls from the provider of their primary network programming (the National Broadcasting Company; also known as NBC) and broadcasters in Europe concerning the author of a popular story titled "To Kill a Mockingbird" (Nelle Harper Lee) and plans to have an earlier story she wrote about one of its characters published this July since her home was located in their local broadcast area (in Monroeville, Alabama).