News for Monday, April 4th, 2016

• The son of one of the news presenters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV was part of a regular feature of their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. (the "Pet of the Week" segment of "WKRG News 5 This Morning") this Monday (the name of the news presenter was Devon Walsh; as for the name of her son, she said it was Sam during the segment).

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had a commercial break between the last segment of today's edition of their local news program for Monday through Friday mornings ("FOX 10 News in the Morning") and the first segment of this Monday's edition of their local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") (the hosts for the program (Joe Emer and Chasity Byrd) had acknowledged this change at the beginning of the segment).   

• WEIQ-TV (the Alabama Public Television station for southwest Alabama) started having the live programming feed for a national TV programming service named World on one of its digital sub-channels between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. (in addition to between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.) on a regular basis for the first time since the last day of last September on the first day of this April (last Friday). By then, it usually only had programming for the service between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. before having programs from a separate national TV programming service named Create TV between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. (either via a live programming feed for the service or a delayed version of it).  This usually meant of the station's sub-channels had programs from the same programming service during the same time period since the first day of last October since one of those channels usually had either one or two programs for the service every hour by then (usually via its live programming feed).