News for Thursday, October 19th, 2017 (amended)

(amendment note: certain details from a message mentioned in the fourth paragraph below this sentence were added to that very paragraph)

• The local news program the appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. on the Wednesday of the eighteenth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") had video of a news report attributed to a former news reporter and news presenter for their news operation (Avery Cotton) for a TV station related to them by ownership in the city of Tampa in the state of Florida (WFLA-TV)* before having video of its news presenter (Joseph Blake (J. B.) Biunno**) telling its weather reporter (John Nodar) that some viewers of the program might had recognized the reporter and that she would had loved the "cool weather" they had been "seeing" in an area he had called "the gulf coast" before having the weather reporter saying she had worked with them at the station for many years and that he was glad to see her before saying that it was lovely. 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. and the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. this Thursday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") and the one that appeared on it during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. later this Thursday ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") appeared to have live videos of the news reporter mentioned in the previous paragraph doing news reports and interacting with their news presenters (Bill Riales and Jessica Taloney for the first one; Bill Riales alone for the other one) from certain remote locations (the news presenter named Bill Riales had referred to the connection she had to their news operation mentioned in the previous paragraph while on the first program with her (this is how he did so: "And if Avery (the reporter) looks familiar, of course she used to be on this broadcast right here. Great to see you again, Avery Cotton" (she did not respond to him on the program)).***  

• The guides to the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV from Zap2it, TitanTV, and Comcast on the World Wide Web had the names by which their local news programs for it were usually identified in its programming prior to this past September in recent times ("Local 15", as in "Local 15 Today", "Local 15 News at Noon", and "Local 15 News at 5 p.m.") whereas the guides to the main broadcast channel for their companion station (WJTC-TV)**** from the same sources had referred to their local news program for it by the name by which all of their local news programs were usually identified on their respective channels since then by the time of this writing ("NBC 15", as in "NBC 15 News at Nine" for the program for the channel for WJTC-TV, and "NBC 15 Today" for the program for the channel for WPMI-TV that used to be identified as "Local 15 Today" in its programming prior to last September).

• A Facebook page attributed to a person named Toi Thornton had a message attributed to him dated for the Tuesday of the tenth day of this October stating he was to move to the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama to become a reporter for WALA-TV and that he was to start working for it on the Monday of the sixteenth day of this October (note: the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Thursday ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") appeared to have him doing a news report for them from its set).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Wednesday of the eighteenth day of this October ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had one of its news presenters (Rose Ann Haven) saying a certain group of police had asked them to "air" a certain "story" involving a certain person of interest to folks like them again after saying the person had not been found by such folks (police).

(*they were members of a holding company named the Nexstar Media Group)

(**he was not a regular news presenter for the program)

(***the video of her on the program named "WKRG News 5 at Noon" had her reporting having seen her "first arrest" at a protest near her location)

(****they were members of a holding company named the Sinclair Broadcast Group)