News for Sunday, March 18th, 2018

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the hour of 5:00 a.m. and the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Saturday of the seventeenth day of this March ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Saturday" and "WKRG News 5 at 10" respectively)* each appeared to have had a report related to a certain game of basketball and certain predictions related to it attributed to a member of their news operation (Joseph Blake (J. B.) Biunno).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 6:00 a.m. on the Saturday of the twenty-seventh day of this past January ("FOX 10 News at 6:00 a.m.") appeared to have had its news presenter (Asha Staples) saying, "A terrible story from Pascagoula" immediately before presenting one of its reports ("a sixty-one-year-old man who just got off work at Ingalls was shot and killed while riding his motorcycle").  

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 7:00 a.m. on the Saturday of the twenty-seventh day of this past January ("FOX 10 News at 7:00 a.m.") appeared to have had its news presenter (Asha Staples) saying, "A tragic story out of Satsuma in the midst of this deadly flu season" immediately before presenting one of its reports ("Danielle Weaver died earlier this week after her family says she was diagnosed with the flu"). 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Saturday of the tenth day of this March ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have had its news presenter (Shelby Myers) saying, "The weekend isn't over yet, thankfully, and if you were planning on heading to the theater, there's plenty in store at the box office: from a classic family novel turned PG adventure starring Oprah to a star-studded R-rated comedy and more -- here's FOX's Ashley Dvorkin with a preview".

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Friday of the twenty-sixth day of this past January ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had one of its news presenters (Lenise Ligon) saying, "Well get a load of this: Self-parking slippers" with an inflection in her voice before presenting a report of such slippers with more inflections in her voice and her saying the word "interesting" immediately afterwards (it also had her and its other news presenter (Shelby Myers)** discussing a certain type of ice cream).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Friday of the twenty-sixth day of this past January ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") had one of its news presenters (Lenise Ligon) saying, "All right, an alert causes unnecessary panic in Hawaii" and its other news presenter (Shelby Myers) saying, "Now investigators say the employee who sent the warning is no longer cooperating in the investigation. Why not? And that's all when we continue in sixty seconds" immediately afterwards (note: it also had the one named Shelby Myers saying, "There are around fifteen hundred students at Theodore High School; the school has been around for almost one hundred years" after having a video of a report involving different numbers in connection to the age and actual number of students of a certain "Theodore High School"). 

(*the channel had network programming from their main provider of such programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) during the first fifteen minutes of the hour of 10:00 p.m. that Saturday (it was usually set to have local news programming during the first fifteen minutes of that hour on a daily basis in recent times in addition to the next fifteen minutes of it whereas that Saturday it was set to have such programming for the second half of the first half of that hour and the first half of the second half of it that Saturday). 

(**the channel usually did not have her in the role of news presenter for installments of the program that were part of its programming during the hour of 9:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times)