News for Friday, December 25th, 2015

• WKRG-TV, WALA-TV, WEAR-TV, and WFNA-TV had special programming in observance of Christmas instead of new editions of some of their local news programs for Monday through Friday today (WKRG-TV was set to have four animated TV programs titled "Christmas Is", "The City That Forgot Christmas", "Red Boots for Christmas", and "Little Shepherd" in place of their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") and a syndicated program based primarily on music titled "Music and the Spoken Word" in place of their local news programs for the first halves of the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. ("WKRG News 5 at 9" and "WKRG News 5 at Noon"); WALA-TV was set to have a syndicated program based on both drama and music titled "A Dickens Christmas" and two local programs based on music titled "University of Mobile Christmas Spectacular" and "Sounds of the Season" take the places of their local news program for the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. and both halves of the hours of 5:00 a.m., 6:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m., and 8:00 a.m. Monday through Friday ("FOX 10 News in the Morning") and their local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") for both halves of the hour of 9:00 a.m. ("University of Mobile Christmas Spectacular" was to be broadcast two during the time period for the morning news program whereas "Sounds of the Season" would be broadcast three times during the periods of both the news program and the entertainment and lifestyle program), set to have the two local programs take the places of their local news programs for the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. ("FOX 10 News at 4:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.), and set to have only one of the local programs ("Sounds of the Season") take the places of their local 9:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.); WEAR-TV was set to have the second half a network program based on based on both music and drama titled "Christmas at the Christian Cultural Center" and an entire local program based primarily on music titled "Christmas on the Coast (with the Pensacola Children's Chorus)" instead of their local news program for the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. and the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("Three in the Morning"); WFNA-TV was set to have a comedic program titled "The Dog Who Saved Christmas" instead of WKRG-TV's local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. (WFNA-TV and WKRG-TV are companions to each other due to their ownership by the same company (Media General )).