News for Thursday, July 12th, 2018

(note #1: a transcript of a certain TV program mentioned in the seventh paragraph from the top of the previous report for this weblog ("News for Wednesday, July 11th, 2018") was added to a separate part of this weblog (note #2: some hyperlinks to the transcript itself were also added to that report and a certain part of this weblog named "Conversations in Broadcasting"))

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. and the first half of the hour of 10:00 p.m. on the Monday of the second day of this July ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.", "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.", and "FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") each appeared to have had reports of a certain "superintendent" being "African-American" without any explanation as to why).  

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Wednesday of the twenty-seventh day of this June appeared to have had one of its news presenters (Lenise Ligon) saying, "A local basketball team going for gold: the Mobile Hurricanes' going to be leaving soon for special Olympic games in Seattle" and its other news presenter (Bob Grip) saying, "And to make sure they know that we're rooting for them, we dropped by their pep rally and brought the FOX 10 Surprise Squad" before appearing to have had a certain video involving digital graphics resembling text of "FOX 10 Surprise Squad" immediately afterwards. 

• The last two minutes of 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. this Thursday ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") appeared to have had a certain discussion involving one of its  news presenters (Lenise Ligon) saying, "Aw, wow, it was a--it was a hard afternoon, um, Alexa Knowles is saying good bye" and its other news presenter (Byron Day) saying, "Yeah, she certainly is, and we wish her the very best" with a certain graphic involving an certain image and some text of "GOOD-BYE, ALEXA!" (note #1: transcript of discussion (note #2: the program occasionally appeared to have had reports from a reporter named "Alexa Knowles" in its broadcasts before then in recent times)). 

• 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 Wednesday of the eleventh day of this July ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") appeared to have had one of its reporters (a weather reporter named Jason Smith) saying this for a report related to weather: "Coming from our Dauphin's cam here pointed back toward Baldwin County -- looks nice as you head towards the east tonight. It's not so nice back to the west, where we have showers and storms; and they're showing up well on our storm tracker doppler radar. Let's look at this -- hey, I'm in western Mobile County right on the Alabama-Mississippi line -- this has been a very persistent and very slow-moving thunderstorm here that's rocked Citronelle and, uh, Earlville, and also Georgetown, and now this thing is moving on over toward Mississippi" (note: the program appeared to have had the reporter in front of some digital while appearing to have had this part of the report).

• 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-second day of the month of June for this calendar year ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") appeared to have had one of its reporters (a weather reporter named Michael White) saying this for a report related to weather: "Here's what you got -- here's what you can expect for tomorrow: the temperature will be up to near ninety at noon, and then we'll have a high similar to today of about ninety-two, but that is the air temperature projection; this is how warm it's actually going to feel when you factor in the humidity: the projected heat index; that's going to be about a hundred and three at three o'clock. It's jumped up so much it's covered up by part of the banner, but you can see that the triple-digit index values begin at mid-day, so you need to stay hydrated, you need to find shade, and just understand that heat exhaustion can sneak up fast in that type of environment and we see a lot of it between now and September" (the program appeared to have had some digital graphics involving texts such as "HEAT INDEX" and "STORMtracker" behind the reporter while appearing to have had this part of the report).

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 12:00 p.m. this Thursday ("WKRG News 5 at Noon) appeared to have had one of its reporters (a weather reporter named Thomas Geboy) saying, "This is Pensacola International Airport; temperature at eighty-nine degrees, but that heat index['s] at ninety-nine. It's hot outside and you don't need the weather man to tell you that" in front of a certain video involving an external location; its news presenter (Devon Walsh) moving her mouth without audio for six seconds on the set of the program immediately after appearing to have had a certain animated sequence related to the program (with audio of a certain announcer saying phrases such as, "You're watching 'WKRG News 5 at Noon' ") immediately after one of its breaks from appearing on the channel in the aforementioned period of time this Thursday before suddenly appearing to have had audio of her speaking over a certain video not involving her self; one of its other reporters (a news reporter named Debbie Williams) saying, "There are no, uh, no ends to the lines out here and once you get into the store, there are even more lines, So the folks in there are saying take your time, take your patience, we're going to get to everybody, and the same thing could be said for all the stores here in Baldwin County -- uh, Build-A-Bear and the Wharf -- same situation, they have given them a cutoff person and they will get in the store at some point today; could change later today, but this is just crazy -- a lot of happy people inside the store with their animals, and some happy kids as well" in an external location separate from the news presenter and the other reporter (with digital graphics and texts of "BUILD A BEAR PAY YOUR AGE SALE" and "CAUSING CHAOS AT THE STORES"); and the news presenter saying, "All right, thank you very much, Debbie. Five hundred people in line. Wow" immediately after appearing to have had the reporter mentioned before her.