News for Friday, August 4th, 2017

• According to WPMI-TV, they have had some technical problems in some of their local news programming since their master control facilities in the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama were moved to a hub in the city of Pensacola in the state of Florida in recent times.

• A Facebook page attributed to a member of the local news operation at WALA-TV named Devan Coffaro had a message attributed to her dated for the Wednesday of the second day of this August about it being the last day one of its other members (Candace Murphy) was to be part of its operation (some Facebook messages attributed to that member had suggested she was to be part of the local news operation of a TV station in the city of Columbia in the state of South Carolina (WACH-TV) after leaving the one for WALA-TV).

• A live video stream for WALA-TV had a loop of some of the local news programming they during the morning hours of this past Wednesday (specifically from between the beginning of the second half of its hour of 4:00 a.m. and the first 20 minutes of its hour of 8:00 a.m.) instead of the local news programming they had during the evening hours of that Wednesday (from between its hour of 9:00 p.m. and the end of the first half of its hour of 10:00 p.m.) before having their local news programming they had during the morning hours of the Thursday of the third day of this August (from the middle of its hour of 4:00 a.m.). 

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during second half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. this past Thursday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had one of the news reporters for their local news operation (Allen Carter) saying a "crew" for a national TV program (based on actual crimes) named "The First 48" was located where a certain crime had occurred in the city of Mobile that day (note: when he started talking about the "crew" on the news program that appeared on the channel during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m., he appeared to had referred to one of the news presenters for the program (Rose Ann Haven) using the opening sequence of the program to say that the crime and three other crimes like it (each of them had occurred in the city of Mobile*) had occurred the same day the city of Mobile was to be in the "national spotlight" on a new edition of the national program (named "A Murder of Mobile") set to be broadcast that day). 

(*this hyperlink leads to reports about those crimes and reports of another crime in the city of Mobile similar to them having occurred this Friday)