News for Saturday, May 27th, 2017

• Another digital sub-channel was added to the broadcast operation of WALA-TV earlier this calendar week (according to the guide to its programming provided by TitanTV, the programming appeared to be that of a national TV programming service named Escape). 

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV had a message attributed to the director of their news operation (Chris Best) dated for the Friday of the twenty-sixth day of this May congratulating its staff for their contributions to the operation this May and the retirement of one of its camera operators (Gary Arnold).           

• The main broadcast channels for WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV both had a special program named "HURRICANE: Simply Safety" this past Friday on the twenty-sixth day of this May (the one for WKRG-TV had it when it was usually set to have a local news program of theirs from Monday through Friday in recent times ("WKRG News 5 at 6:30" during the half of the hour of 6:00 p.m.) whereas the one for WFNA-TV had it when it was usually set to have a comedic program ("The Andy Griffith Show" during the second half of the hour of 9:00 p.m.) from Monday through Friday in recent times.