News for Friday, April 7th, 2017

• One of the news reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Hal Scheurich) said he had a restaurant of his very own (named "Hal's Pub Grub") for about two years while part of a series of cooking segments for a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV this Friday (the name of the program was "Studio 10").  

• The official World Wide Web site for the holding (or "parent") company of WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV (the Nexstar Media Group) had a news release dated for this past Wednesday on the fifth day of this April about a member of a group TV stations based in the city of Montgomery in the central part of Alabama being appointed to the positions of vice president and general manager of both WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV.
  

• The local news program that was usually set to appear on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. and the hours of 5:00 a.m., 6:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m., and 8:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times ("FOX 10 News in the Morning") continued to appear on the channel a few minutes after the time its broadcasts usually ended in recent times (about fifty-eight or fifty-nine minutes after 8:00 a.m.) (the news presenters for the program (Eric Reynolds and Sarah Wall) were talking about a speech by the governor of Alabama (Robert Bentley) concerning recent efforts to impeach him near the end of its broadcast for this Friday).*

 (*this caused the beginning of the local entertainment and lifestyle program mentioned in the first paragraph of this report to appear on the channel later than usual this Friday (or about five minutes after 9:00 a.m.)