Conversations in Broadcasting #21

The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. on the Sunday of the eighth day of the month of July for the calendar year 2018 ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have had this conversation between its news presenters (Lee Peck and Shelby Myers):

Shelby Myers: Well FOX 10 News is committed to keeping you informed this hurricane season.

Lee Peck: That's right. Our storm tracker team has been busy preparing a thirty-minute special report and we will provide you with all the information you need to protect you and your family.

Shelby Myers: We're covering the dangers of storm surge, hurricane supplies, and worst-case scenarios if a storm were to hit our area. (note: the program appeared to have had a certain video with digital graphics with texts of "HURRICANE SPECIAL" and "TUESDAY, 5:30" by this point)

Lee Peck: So be sure to tune in to our hurricane special. It airs this Tuesday at five thirty p-m. (note: the program appeared to have had an image with graphics resembling text of "TRACKING HURRICANE X", "PREPARING FOR THE WORST", "TUESDAY", and "5:30 PM" by this point)

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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 ninth day of the month of July for the calendar year 2018 ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") appeared to have had this conversation between its news presenters (Bob Grip and Lenise Ligon) and one of its reporters (Byron Day):

Lenise Ligon: Sometimes a weekend Mobile police report which is issued to local media, can have some really...strange stories.

Bob Grip: That's right and apparently this past weekend was one of those can you believe this for M-P-D. Byron Day is in our newsroom to share some of those stories. Byron.

Byron Day: Yeah, guys, some really, really stuff different here. Let's talk in Spring Hill at twelve thirty this morning. A man in a house on Zimlich Avenue called police. They say he called because he heard something in his house; well it turns out he wasn't hearing things. When officers searched the house, they found this woman, twenty-four-year-old Danielle Weaver, hiding in a closet. Police tell us she just didn't just pick a random house to check out the closet space; they believe Weaver was really up to no good. They arrested her on a second degree burglary charge for breaking and entering, plus she also had an outstanding warrant for criminal mischief last month, but this one's a big one too, and this is Abigail Hodges and investigators say she apparently she likes trying on clothes, which belong to other people, in their home. According to the police report early Sunday morning they got a call regarding a suspicious circumstance complaint. Officers reported the victim found Hodges inside her bedroom wearing her clothes. That's when she called the cops. Hodges, who just got out of a jail last month on a public drunkenness charge has been charged with second degree burglary and yes, tonight, she's wearing a jail jump suit. Ok, one more. This one might be called the would-be-drive-through stick up. Police tell us this past Friday night two people pulled up to the drive through window at the Checkers on Airport Boulevard. Well the employee of the drive through told police the driver pulled a gun on him and demanded cash from the drawer. So when the employee went to open to drawer, the two would-be drivers suddenly took off without the cash and not even a couple of cheese burgers. Bob.

Bob Grip: (laughs) Those were different stories, all right.