News for Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 (corrected)

• The beginning of the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. on the Sunday of the tenth day of this December ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Sunday") had its weather reporter (Thomas Geboy) saying, "And Frosty the Snowman arrived on Friday, but this morning he's about Jack Frost. News 5 This Morning starts right now" near the end of a summary (or "preview") of subjects planned for it.

• The main broadcast channels for WEAR-TV, WKRG-TV, and WPMI-TV each appeared to have had special programming from their respective news operations concerning an election for a position in the Senate of the United States in the state of Alabama in place of regular programming from their main providers of network programming (the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) during the hour of 9:00 p.m. this Tuesday. 

• The programming feeds for WDLT-FM, WBLX-FM, and WABD-FM each had audio of an interview with a person born to a former radio announcer for WBLX-FM in their broadcasts of a certain installment of a local radio program dedicated to discussing news and public affairs ("In Touch Gulf Coast") between the beginning of the hour of 5:00 a.m. and the beginning of the hour of 7:00 a.m. on the Sunday of the tenth day of this December (the name of the person interviewed was Rayvon Russell; the name of the former announcer to whom he was born was Arthur Ray Russell (the announcer was also known by the name "Ray Ray Russell")).

• The local news programs that were usually set to appear on the the main broadcast channels for WKRG-TV, WPMI-TV, and WALA-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times ("WKRG News 5 at 10", "NBC 15 News [at 10 p.m.]", and "FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m." respectively) appeared on their respective channels a few minutes longer than usual (or no later than forty-five minutes) after the beginning of that hour) this Tuesday before having the programs they were usually set to have during the second half of that hour from Monday through Friday in recent times ("The Late Show with Stephen Colbert", "Tonight" (or "The Tonight Show") and "Page Six TV" respectively).*

• The beginning of 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 Sunday of the tenth day of this December ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had its weather (Thomas Geboy) appearing to stand in front of a black setting while saying, "Well the graphics behind me might had crashed but all you need to know [is that] it was bitterly cold this weekend, but heading into Monday we're  actually going into a warming trend. We'll have your full forecast coming up on News 5 which starts right now" before having its news presenter (Ashley Knight) immediately after him* before having him appearing in front of digital graphics normally used for parts of some of the local news programming it had pertaining to weather before then in recent times saying, "Well we got the graphics back and on Friday and Saturday morning, Frosty the Snowman paid us a visit and this morning Jack Frost paid us a visit".** 

(correction note: the second paragraph above this message had "forty" where "forty-five" was originally intended and one the parentheses for it was not in the spot for which it was originally intended)

(*A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV appeared to have had live video of the local news program it had during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. this Tuesday along with that of the other local news program it had during the hour of 9:00 p.m. this Tuesday (both of them were mainly focused on the election mentioned in the second paragraph from the top of this report))

 (**the program usually had an animated sequence with an announcer saying, "Now on WKRG News 5" before having audio of a summary of various subjects planned for it along with videos related to them before having an animated sequence with an announcer saying, "From WKRG News 5, the gulf coast's news leader, the news starts now" before having a news presenter introducing his self or her self before presenting a news report in previous installments of it in recent times)