News for Sunday, April 2nd, 2017

• The main broadcast channel for WSRE-TV was set to have the first serial of a dramatic TV program to involve a character known by some of its followers as "The Fifth Doctor [Who]" this past Saturday (during the hour of 10:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 11:00 p.m).

• One of the members of the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) was part of an interview conducted for an installment of a local radio program dedicated to news and public affairs broadcast by WDLT-FM and WBLX-FM this Sunday (the name of the program was "In Touch Gulf Coast").

• The main broadcast channel for WJTC-TV was set to have a syndicated news program that was not usually part of its programming on a regular basis for several years since this past Monday on the twenty-seventh day of this past March (the name of the program was "Extra"; as for when it was set to appear on the channel since then, it was set to appear during the first half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. from that Monday to this past Friday (on the thirty-first day of this past March) and for the entire hour of 6:00 p.m. this past Saturday).*

(*the program usually appeared to had been broadcast locally only by WEAR-TV and WFGX-TV on a regular basis in recent times (usually through their main broadcast channels)**)
(**WJTC-TV, WEAR-TV, and WFGX-TV were members of the same holding (or "parent") company (the Sinclair Broadcast Group))