- I had noticed some local news broadcasters using different ways
of
referring to a group of folks they said were killed in the city of
Citronelle in southwest Alabama this past August in their broadcasts
since then (such as five adults and an unborn child, six people including
an unborn child, and five people including a pregnant woman).
- One of the weather reporters for the local news
operation at WALA-TV (Jason Smith)
had referred to a part of the state of Florida that was
expected to be in the path of a tropical cyclone named "Hermine" last
Thursday on the first day of this September as "Florida's forgotten
coast" while talking about the cyclone itself in their local news
programming that day (between 8:57 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.) To me that
phrase might be considered very offensive and presumptuous by folks with
connections
to that area (it also made me wonder whether he was told to use that
phrase by someone in charge of WALA-TV or not).
- I
have a feeling that WKRG-TV may be transitioning to having a certain
professional announcer with past connections to the city of Mobile in
southwest Alabama (Jeff Davis) be their main announcer for their local
news operation and broadcast operation in general, since his voice was
used in several recent promotional videos for their main broadcast
channel, including promotional videos for businesses in
their local broadcast area, some of their syndicated programs (including
a comedic program named "The Big Bang Theory" and a game program named
"Family Feud"), and certain parts of their local news programs (they
were about recent awards bestowed upon their broadcast operation).*
(*by the time of this writing, the local news programs still had announcements by a professional announcer named
Jay Gardner for other parts of their broadcasts (they were normally used for introducing certain segments of their broadcasts like weather segments and sports segments)
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