News for Friday, November 10th, 2017

• The city of Mobile in southwest Alabama appeared to had been part of a recent installment of a national TV program named "The First 48" (the name of that installment was "Runner Runner").* 

• A local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 a.m. this Friday ("Studio 10") had an interview involving a former weather reporter for the local news operation at WALA-TV (John Edd Thompson).

• A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had live video of a TV program for a national cable TV and satellite TV programming named the Cable News Network (CNN) involving one of the news reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Kati Weis) this Friday (a World Wide Web site attributed to WALA-TV had an article dated for this Friday concerning her being on the program).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Friday ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") had one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) telling its audience if they were "fans of Chip and Joanna Gaines" that they knew that a "holiday edition" (or winter issue) of a series of publications named Magnolia Journal was to "hit the news stands in just a few days" before having its other news presenter (Lenise Ligon) saying the theme of the edition was "wonder" before saying they (she was actually using the word "we") "had the opportunity to sit down and have an exclusive interview" with the aforementioned Joanna Gaines to discuss the idea of the publication being "a labor of idea" before having some video of a person identified by some of its graphics by the name Joanna Gaines before having audio of the news presenter mentioned earlier (Bob Grip) saying the edition was to "hit the news stands on Tuesday (or the Tuesday of the fourteenth day of this November)" and that "over the course of the next few weeks" they (he was actually using the word "we") would have more of the interview on their (he was actually using the word "our") "Web site" before having audio of the later news presenter (Lenise Ligon) saying publications were produced by their "parent company" ("the Meredith Corporation").

(*this weblog had a report earlier this calendar year ("News for Friday, August 4th, 2017") with details pertaining to an earlier installment of the program ("A Murder in Mobile") that also appeared to have had involved the city of Mobile)