News for Friday, October 30th, 2015 (updated)

 (update for November 1st, 2015: the World Wide Web address for the hyperlink "Dunne" was replaced)

• WPMI-TV has a new weather reporter for Saturday and Sunday named Jake Dunne (he was given an introduction on their local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") today). 

• The hosts for WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program (Joe Emer and Chasity Byrd of "Studio 10") wore costumes for today's edition of the program in observance of Halloween and the theme for the 61st Greater Gulf State Fair in Mobile (the theme was based on a theatrical movie titled "The Wizard of Oz"; as for their costumes, the one named Joe Emer was dressed like the scarecrow in the movie while the one named Chasity Byrd was dressed like the person named Dorothy in the same movie).

• WKRG-TV did not have a certain animated sequence that was normally used to introduce segments of their local 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") about certain news reports and features from the World Wide Web or reports about technology and the World Wide Web in their broadcasts of such segments for the program this week just like previous weeks (the sequence usually had audio of a news presenter of theirs named Rose Ann Haven saying, "Wake up! And now 'Around the Web and Around the World'...and the gulf coast too").