News for Tuesday, May 1st, 2018

(note: some recent articles for this weblog named "Some commentary on some new graphics and sounds for a certain TV station" and "A comparison of reports for some local TV news programs" were reformatted)   

• A Facebook page related WAVH-FM appeared to had received a message from its administration involving the words, "It's our birthday" this Tuesday (note: a certain Twitter page related to WAVH-FM appeared to had received messages similar to the one involving those words from its own administration this Tuesday).  

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV and WALA-TV during the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Monday of the thirtieth day of the month of April ("WKRG News 5 at 10" and "FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") for this calendar year each appeared to have had a report of their respective news operations having investigations related to "day cares".

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channels for WALA-TV, WKRG-TV, and WPMI-TV during the first half of the hour of 5:00 p.m. ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.", "WKRG News 5 at 5", and "NBC15 News at 5pm") each appeared to have had live video of a certain news conference (note: the program that appeared on the channel for WALA-TV appeared during both halves of that hour).

• The main broadcast channel for WFNA-TV appeared to have a local news program with a name similar to that of one of the local news programs that were usually part of the programming of the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV in recent times ("WKRG News 5 at 9" for both of them (p.m. and a.m. respectively)) and some digital graphics, announcements, and music like those for some of the local news programming WKRG-TV had on their own main broadcast channel since the Sunday of the thirtieth day of the month of April for this calendar year during the first half of the hour of 9:00 p.m. this Tuesday (note #1: the channel usually appeared to have had a local news program named "The Gulf Coast CW News at 9" during the hour of 9:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday before this calendar week in recent times (note #2: WFNA-TV and WKRG-TV were related to each other due to their being members of a certain holding company named the Nexstar Media Group)).

• 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 twenty-ninth day of this April ("WKRG News 5 at 10") appeared to have had its news presenter (Jason Carter) saying, "Welcome back. Well Mobile is known as the port city and that means the cruise industry is a huge part of life here, but if you're a trip of a lifetime, you could be throwing your hard-earned money away -- you'd have to cancel and did it if not for that trip insurance -- consumer investigator Shannon Benkhen from our sister station in Tampa, crunched the numbers to help you make your decision" before having a certain video with a report similar to what he appeared to had said; and "All right, folks, coming up, you have spent three days watching the draft tirelessly; now it's time for the pro to take the stage. Robby Baker is here. You may be overwhelmed, you may be underwhelmed, but we promise you will be whelmed" immediately before one of its breaks from appearing on the channel in that period that day; and, "All right, guys, just--just sit back, relax, [Thomas Geboy (weather reporter): It's going to be fun], take a little break [Thomas Geboy: You're going to want to watch]; he's taking over (points toward a reporter for the program (a sports reporter named Robby Baker); it's going to get good" during the last minute of its time for appearing on the channel in that period of time that day.  

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Monday of the thirtieth day of the month of April for this calendar year ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have its news presenter (Lenise Ligon) saying, "FOX 10 News is going to be celebrating a birthday of sorts this Saturday. Sixty-five years ago WALA-TV started its TV broadcasting career at two ten (210) Government Street -- and now that is the Hargrove building in downtown Mobile -- WALA Channel 10 is Mobile's oldest operating station -- before the television age, WALA serving the community through radio -- this Saturday an historic plaque will be dedicated and placed on the building at the corner of Government and Joaquin; the previous location of the WALA studios and offices. In our sixty-five years of television broadcasting, WALA has been a proud member of the community sharing triumphs as well as tragedies. I want to thank all of you -- the people on the gulf coast -- for inviting us into your homes day and night time and time again (note: the local news program that appeared on the channel during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Tuesday ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") appeared to have her and a news presenter named Byron Day presenting a similar report before having a certain video to which it was related (Lenise Ligon: Saturday is going to be a special day for the station. Byron Day: You bet. Lenise Ligon: A plaque will be unveiled at Joaquin and Government streets to commemorate WALA as the oldest television station in Mobile. Byron Day: Yeah, the building there at Government and Joaquin streets -- it's been a long journey and FOX 10 News meteorologist Matt Barrentine takes a look back")  whereas the one that appeared on the channel during the hour of 9:00 p.m. later this Tuesday ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have had presenting a similar alert by her self ("Saturday is a special day for our station. A plaque will be unveiled at Joaquin and Government streets to commemorate WALA as the oldest TV station in Mobile. It's been a long journey and FOX News meteorologist Matt Barrentine takes a look") before having what appeared to had been the same video immediately afterwards).