News for Wednesday, June 20th, 2018

 (update for Thursday, June 21st, 2018: a new section was added to this weblog this Thursday (note #1: the new section was named "Conversations in Broadcasting"  (note #2: a hyperlink for accessing this new section was added to this page under the words "Historical Features"))) 

• A certain World Wide Web site named Covenant Funeral & Crematory appeared to have had an obituary for a former member of the news operation for WKRG-TV named Ray White mentioned on some of the local news programs that appeared on their main broadcast channel  on the Monday of the eighteenth day of this June.   

• A certain Facebook page related to a certain member of the news operation for WKRG-TV named Robby Baker appeared to had been used by its administration to upload a certain video related to a certain TV program of theirs named "WKRG Sports Overtime" involving mentions of the words "Father's Day" on the Sunday of the seventeenth day of this June. 

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Tuesday of the nineteenth day of this June ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") each appeared to have had video of a certain reporter of theirs (a news reporter named Lee Peck) doing at least one report involving the words "shark fishing" from a remote location. 

• 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 Tuesday of the nineteenth day of this June ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") appeared to have had one of its news presenters (Byron Day) saying, "Lenise, another follow up to share with you" immediately after appearing to have had a report being presented by a news presenter named "Lenise" ("Lenise Ligon" to be precise), and, "This bad boy is going down literally; the two hundred fifty foot surveillance vessel New Venture is going to be Alabama's newest man-made reef" for a separate report.

• 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 Tuesday of the nineteenth day of this June ("WKRG News 5 at 10") appeared to have had one of its news presenters (Mel Showers) saying, "Now back to shark fishing at Gulf State Park Pier in Gulf Shores: the first day was a bust -- a couple of close calls, but no luck yet. We thought for sure someone would have landed a shark by now. One guy has hooked up twice and we had a false alarm just a few minutes ago when someone caught a sting ray. So far no one has landed a shark (the opening for the program appeared to have had audio of the news presenter saying, "A live report from the first night of shark fishing on the Gulf State Park pier").

• One of the digital sub-channels for WALA-TV appeared to have a series of at least four advertisements related to their news operation before appearing to have had a program from their main provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company) during the hour of 9:00 a.m. this Wednesday (note #1: the channel usually appeared to have had programming for a national TV programming service named COZI TV by then in recent times (note #2: the channel usually appeared to have had such programming while only their main channel appeared to have had programming from their main provider of network programming during those times (note #3: the main channel did not have the same programming or any other programming for the provider by the time the channel had such programming during the hour of 9:00 a.m. this Wednesday)).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Wednesday ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") appeared to have had one of its news presenters (Lenise Ligon) saying, "Why do you have an umbrella? It's not raining", its other news presenter (Byron Day) saying, "Not here. Not inside" immediately afterwards, one of its reporters (a weather reporter named Adam Olivier) saying, "Not inside, but outside you may need an umbrella. We have a new contest going on: it's our umbrella giveaway and so everyday -- well, not everyday; every Wednesday we will pick two winners. This is the umbrella; it's got FOX 10 Stormtracker on it -- I'm not going to open it because it's a big umbrella and it's sponsored by Estates Heating, which is on the other side in the blue. So we're giving away two of them, once at five, once at nine, and today's winner is Ed Hannon of Mobile. So if you are Ed Hannon, please reach out to us; we've got an umbrella waiting for you out there today; certainly a much needed thing around here this summertime" immediately afterwards, the news presenter mentioned second saying, "[indistinguishable] or this is going to go in my golf bag" immediately afterwards, the reporter saying, "Well, ok. Well Byron's got that one, so we have two winners today, right -- though three, actually. Well then, once again, Ed Hannon you are our lucky winner today with our umbrella challenge, and you can go on, contact us and get in trying to win an umbrella too, and we'll have another winner tonight at nine o'clock, so you'll want to tune in for that as well. Outside we're not talking about a lot of rain out there, so you may not need an umbrella right now except for a few locations, mainly in our inland areas in Washington and Clarke County".