Thursday, August 3, 2017

News for Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017

(note: the name of a national TV programming service mentioned in the third paragraph of the report titled "News for Monday, July 31st, 2017" was corrected (it had "A+E" as its name rather than "A&E") 
  • A Facebook page attributed to Alabama Public Radio had a message attributed to an engineer of theirs dated for this past Tuesday on the first day this August about a new satellite receiver being installed at their network station in southwest Alabama (WHIL-FM) that day (an image of what appeared to be a satellite receiver was posted along with the message). 
  • The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had an advertisement with a professional announcer normally used for some of their local news programming in recent times (Jeff Davis) telling its audience about the channel being their "exclusive home" of certain "pre-season" football games expected to occur before the regular season for professional football games later this calendar year (games involving the Saints of the city of New Orleans in the state of Louisiana) and that it would have special programming about one of them on the Thursday of the tenth day of this August (the beginning the second half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. was listed as the time when it would begin having this type of special programming that day (it was usually set to have a local news program during that time period (under the name "WKRG News 5 at 6:30") before having network programs from their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) during the hours of 7:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m., and 9:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times)).  
  • The guides to the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV from Zap2it, TitanTV, and Comcast for the Friday of the eleventh day of this August and the Saturday of the twelfth day of this August had listings of programs listed on a site attributed to their main provider of network programming as being part of their plan for such programming for the hours of the Thursday of the tenth day of this August it could have special programming in place of them in accordance with the advertisement mentioned in the previous paragraph (the programs named "Big Brother" and "Zoo" were listed from the seventh minute of the hour of 1:00 a.m. to about the seventh minute of the hour of 3:00 a.m. for that Friday of the eleventh day of this August whereas the ones named "The Big Bang Theory" and "Kevin Can Wait" were listed from the seventh minute of the hour of 1:00 a.m. to the seventh minute of the hour of 2:00 a.m. for the Saturday of the twelfth day of this August (note: the guides usually had "paid programs" listed for those time periods for Monday through Friday in recent times)).

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