Sunday, February 11, 2018

News for Saturday, February 10th, 2018

(note: all times on this weblog reflect the Central time zone)
  • A Facebook page attributed to WABF-AM appeared to have had a message attributed to its administration dated the Friday of the ninth day of this February concerning technical problems and the idea of their not broadcasting a certain type of parade that day.
  • A recording of a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that was usually set to appear on the main broadcast channels got WPMI-TV and WJTC-TV* from Monday through Friday in recent times ("Gulf Coast Today") appeared to had been uploaded onto a YouTube channel related to WPMI-TV on the Tuesday of the sixth day of this February (note: the channel for WPMI-TV was usually set to have this program during second half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. whereas the channel for WJTC-TV was usually set to have it during the second half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday). 
  • The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. on the Thursday of the eighth day of this February ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") appeared to have had audio of one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) saying, "FOX 10 News is committed to making sure you get the best Mardi Gras** experience; we will have live coverage during our morning newscasts and then from ten until two we're airing our four-hour Fat Tuesday special. FOX 10 will be coming to you live from the balcony of the Admiral Hotel in downtown Mobile; it's going to be a jam-packed show. We'll also have crews in Baldwin County covering all of the parades there. Mardi Gras** coverage is taking center stage on all of our newscasts".   
  • The main broadcast channel for WEAR-TV was set to have special programming related to a certain type of parade in their local broadcast area during some of the hours in which it was usually set to have programming from their main provider of network programming*** (the hours of 2:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.) on Saturday in recent times this Saturday (note #1: a World Wide Web site attributed to the provider appeared to have had a schedule of programming for that Saturday involving the hour of 2:00 p.m. (note #2: some guides to the channel on some World Wide Web sites named Zap2it, TitanTV, and TV Guide each appeared to have had the name of the program listed in that schedule for the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. for the Sunday of the eleventh day of this February (note #3: the site attributed to the provider appeared to have had a schedule of programming for that Sunday in which the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. were not involved))). 
(*WPMI-TV and WJTC-TV were related to each other due to their being part of a holding company named the Sinclair Broadcast Group)
(**the words "Mardi Gras" were French words for "Fat Tuesday")
(***the American Broadcasting Company (ABC))
(****the Facebook page appeared to have had live video of the members discussing the subject earlier that was not part of the program earlier that Thursday) 
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