News for Wednesday, December 21st, 2016

• One of the members of the local news operation at WPMI-TV who usually presented weather reports for their local news programs for the morning and midday periods of Monday through Friday in recent times (Kelly Foster for "Local 15 Today" and "Local 15 News at Noon" respectively) was presenting news reports in addition to weather reports in the editions of the programs that appeared on their main broadcast channel this Wednesday.*

• A promotional video about a plan to hold a type of parade in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama this Thursday on the twenty-second day of this December had one of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Alan Sealls) saying he would have a weather forecast from the part of the city where such a parade may occur during the time it was expected to occur (he said "6:30 [p.m.]") appeared on their main broadcast channel earlier this calendar week.** 

• One of the guests for a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles (Lucy Greer of Greer's Market and Catering for "Studio 10" at WALA-TV) used one of the cooking segment in its broadcast for this Wednesday to announce she was expecting to give birth (one of the hosts for the program (Joe Emer and Chasity Byrd) said the cooking segments for the broadcast were recorded this past Tuesday (on the twentieth day of this December) and that they knew of her expecting to give birth about a month before the announcement).

(*she appeared to be substituting for the person who usually presented news reports for the programs in recent times (Darwin Singleton)

(**WKRG-TV usually had a local news program on their main broadcast channel during the second half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times (or since the Monday of the fifth day of this December (under the name "WKRG News 5 at 6:30 p.m.")).