Conversations in Broadcasting #11

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 third day of the month of May for this calendar year appeared to have had this conversation between its news presenters (Lenise Ligon and Byron Day).

Lenise Ligon: Well in your consumer news tonight: new cars sold in the United States have to have a rear-view camera - it's an effort to reduce the number of deaths and injuries when people are hit by drivers. That requirement, by the way, took effect this week.

Byron Day: Well Lenise, we need those back-up cameras so that we can watch our dollars fly away when we leave the pump these days; we are creeping closer to three-dollar gas again (emphasis). Triple A says the national average for a gallon of gas is two dollars and eighty-one cents. Now prices have increased at least three cents in the last week; as for our local prices, according to Triple A, the average gas price for a gallon of unleaded in Alabama: two dollars and fifty-three cents -- Mobile County's average: two dollars and fifty-six cents; now if you're gassing up in Baldwin County, it's at the top of the list: two dollars and sixty-two cents. Increased summer driving as well as tensions in the middle east are reasons for the higher prices at the pump.

Lenise Ligon: Stay with us, Jason has one more check on your forecast as we (emphasis) head into Friday (emphasis). Stay close.

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