News for Friday, January 27th, 2017

 (note: part of the report titled "News for Thursday, January 26th, 2017" was corrected")

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the second half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. this past Thursday on the twenty-sixth day of this January ("WKRG News 5 at 6:30") had video of a member of their local news operation (Ashley Knight) suggesting that listeners of her report for the video who "haven't heard" of a resident of Mobile whom she called "Mobile's famed renaissance man" to do their selves "a favor" and "look him up". 

• The first segment of the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. this past Thursday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") began with audio of one of its news presenters (Rose Ann Haven) "breaking news" while an animated sequence normally used for "breaking news" in their programming in recent time appeared instead of a "preview" of reports planned for its broadcast (its broadcasts usually began with such previews in recent times before then).

• The guides to the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV from Zap2it, Comcast, and TV Guide had listings for four syndicated (informational) programs that were not usually part of their regular programming plans for Monday through Friday in recent times ("Elizabeth Stanton's Great Big World",  "Zoo Clues", "Missing", and "Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures") in time periods normally used for two syndicated programs that were usually part of those plans in recent times this Friday ("The Real" (a discussion program) during the hour of 10:00 a.m. and "The People's Court" (a courtroom program) during the hour of 11:00 a.m.).