Monday, September 4, 2017

News for Sunday, September 3rd, 2017 (amended)

(correction note: one of the quotations in the third paragraph of the report titled "News for Friday, September 1st, 2017" was corrected)
(amendment note: the number 10 for "10 p.m." in the paragraph below this sentence and the name of the holding company referenced in the same paragraph)
  • The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Saturday of the second day of this September ("Local 15 News at 10 p.m.") and the one that appeared on it during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Sunday ("Local 15 News at 5 p.m.") each one of the news presenters for their local news operation (Lance Crawford* for the first one; Andrea Ramey** for the second one) talking about their holding company (or "parent" company (the Sinclair Broadcast Group)) having provided certain services to broadcast operation "pursuant to a services agreement" while presenting reports about their operation being part of a charitable effort by the company on the Thursday of the thirty-first day of August for this calendar year.  
  • The news presenter for the local news program mentioned in the previous paragraph that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Sunday had used one of its segment claiming they were only "Mobile station" to have reporters in certain areas directly affected by a certain tropical cyclone (named "Harvey") before having one of the news reporters for their local news operation (Nicole Fierro) sharing what sounded like personal stories about the cyclone and opinions about it that may or may not had been her own while on the set of the program with her.   
  • The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV appeared to have a special program (named "College Football Saturday") from a TV station in the city of Birmingham in the central part of Alabama related to them by ownership (WIAT-TV) during the hour of 4:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. this past Saturday on the second day of this September.***
  • The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had an advertisement about a regular series of segments for one of their local news programs ("Friday Night Football Fever" on "WKRG News 5 at 10 [p.m.]") in which the time normally used for the channel to start having the news program itself (10:00 p.m.) was advertised as the time for the channel to start having the segment. 
(*he was also a sports reporter for the operation in recent times) 
(**she was also a news reporter for the operation in recent times)
(***the channel occasionally had a gray picture with no audio of it during its presentation of the program)

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