News for Monday, March 27th, 2017

• The cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile had a cropped version of the main programming feed for WALA-TV in place of the matted version it usually had on one of its standard-definition cable TV channels since the Friday of the seventeenth day of this March (it usually had a vertically-distorted version of it between then and the Monday of the thirteenth day of this March) had  by the evening hours of this past Sunday on the twenty-sixth day of this March before having a vertically-distorted version of it by the evening of this Monday.   

• The official Facebook page for a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that was usually set to appear on the main broadcast channels for WPMI-TV and WJTC-TV in recent times ("Gulf Coast Today") had a message dated for the Friday of the twenty-fourth day of this March about it being on hiatus by then (the channel for WPMI-TV had extra segments for the local news program that was usually part of its programming only during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times ("Local 15 News at Noon") whereas the channel for WJTC-TV had a syndicated episode of a comedic TV program named "The Simpsons").   

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. this Monday ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had a report about some weather reporters for their local news operation (named Matt Barrentine and Adam Olivier) visiting an elementary school in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama (named Forest Hill Elementary) with an automobile described as their new "storm tracker vehicle" (the presenter of the report (Bob Grip) had referred to their visit as "FOX 10 Weather School" before saying it was part of their commitment to their audience and their community (his exact words were, "Part of our commitment to you and the community").