News for Sunday, August 13th, 2017 (amended)

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had a theatrical movie named "Ghostbusters" both last Sunday (the sixth day of this August (during the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.)) and this Sunday (during the second half of the hour of 1:00 p.m. and the hours of 2:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.). 

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV between the first and second halves of the hour of 10:00 p.m. this Sunday ("WKRG News 5 at 10")* had video of a report about the host of a local TV program dedicated to physical fitness and health (Jason Greene of "SouthFit TV"). 

• An update to a profile of a Facebook page attributed to WZEW-FM dating back to the fourth day of this August involved what appeared to be a new logo for promoting their broadcast operation (note: some messages on the page attributed to its administrating dated for the Tuesday of the eighth day of this August and the Thursday of the tenth day of this August were posted with images of the logo normally used for promoting their broadcast operation before the one used in that update**).  

• 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. this past Saturday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had one of the sports reporters for their local news operation (Robby Baker) telling the news presenter for the program (Ashley Knight) that a "crazy day of golf" caused them to be "bumped off the air" that Saturday (the channel had special programming (from their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) about a golf tournament during one of its regular time periods for having local news programming on Saturday in recent times (the first half of the hour of 6:00 p.m.)). 

(*the channel was usually set to have the program from the beginning of the hour until no later than one minute after the beginning of the second half of it on Sunday in recent times (it had the program later than usual this Sunday due to some special programming (from their main provider of network programming) it had earlier that day (it was about the golf tournament mentioned in the third paragraph from the top of this report)

(**a World Wide Web site attributed to their broadcast operation still had images of the logo normally used for promoting their broadcast operation before that update)

News for Saturday, August 12th, 2017

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this past Thursday on the tenth day of this August ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") had what appeared to be a video of a news report for a TV station in the city of Atlanta in the state of Georgia (WSB-TV) without any references to the station station (either by the news presenter for the program (Bob Grip) or in its showing of the video itself), even though the name of the person to whom it was attributed (Bob Willis) was mentioned in its introduction on the program (by the news presenter).

• A Facebook page attributed to WALA-TV had what appeared to had been live video of the news presenter mentioned in the previous paragraph saying a candidate for the Senate of the United States from Alabama named Mo Brooks was the studio for their local news programs for an interview with a national cable TV and satellite TV programming service named the FOX News Channel and that he had talked to him about the "race" for the position of the Senate for which he was campaigning in recent times this past Friday on the eleventh day of this August.

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the hour of 5:00 a.m. this Saturday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Saturday") had a member of their local news operation who usually only did news presentations for some of the local news programming they had for Monday through Friday in recent times (Devon Walsh) be its news presenter for this Saturday and videos of what appeared to been live news reports from remote locations involving its regular news presenter (Chad Petri). 

• A World Wide Web site named LinkedIn had a profile of a person named Mary Smith* stating she had joined the local news operation of WKRG-TV for a position in news reporting earlier this August (note: the news presenter for the local news program mentioned in the first paragraph had attributed one of its reports to her while introducing video of it (she was called "News 5's Mary Smith" in the introduction).*

(*by the time of this writing, a World Wide Web site attributed to WKRG-TV did not have a profile of her)

News for Friday, August 11th, 2017 (amended)

(note: the first paragraph below was amended for clarity) 

• An Internet video stream for local news programs for WALA-TV and a recording of some of the the local news programs it had this past Thursday on the tenth day of this August added to a YouTube channel attributed to WALA-TV by then. 

• A Facebook attributed to WKRG-TV had some polls (one of which involved video of a news reporter for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Joseph Blake (J. B.) Biunno)) attributed to its administration with some questions regarding two candidates for the position of the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama and a plan for the local news operation at WKRG-TV hold a debate with these candidates next Monday on the fourteenth day of this August.* 

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV was set to have special regional programming (including a live football game) and special local programming (about elections expected to occur later this calendar year) between the second half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. and the end of the hour of 9:00 p.m. this Friday (it was usually set to have a syndicated news program named "Entertainment Tonight" during the second half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. and various network programs from their main provider of network programming (the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) during the hours of 7:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m., and 9:00 p.m.** on a daily basis in recent times).

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV had video of some members of their local news operation (Bill Riales (news presenter), Jessica Taloney (news presenter), and Thomas Geboy (weather reporter)) appearing to talk about some of the functions of the operation in addition to their working on the local news program that appeared on their main broadcast channel during the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. and the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. (under the name "WKRG News This Morning") this Friday (it also had some acknowledgements of the audience for the video and discussions of topics unrelated to the news operation such as the idea of hunting "alligators" (or crocodiles) and a story about one of the members "running over" one of them (the program had various reports about them being hunted in the state of Alabama in its broadcast this Friday)). 

(*only two of the candidates were shown in the videos for the polls (the names of the candidates shown were William Sandys (Sandy) Stimpson (the current holder of the position) and Samuel (Sam) Jones ; the names of the ones not shown were Anthony Leonard Thompson and Donavette Ely)

(**the channel was set to have programs listed as being part of the programming plan of the provider for that time period on a site attributed to a holding company for the provider (NBCUniversal) and an edition of the syndicated news program between about seven minutes after the beginning of the hour of 1:00 p.m. and about seven minutes after the beginning of the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. this Saturday on the twelfth day of this Saturday (it was usually set to have a rebroadcast of a certain part of a news program from the provider named "Today" (usually segments for the last hour in which it was live from Monday through Friday in recent times), a rebroadcast of an installment of a discussion program from the provider named "Mad Money", a paid program (or "infomercial"), and a rebroadcast of the syndicated news program during that time period with the exception of its last 30 minutes from Tuesday through Saturday in recent times) 

News for Thursday, August 10th, 2017

• Some recent Firefox browsers were usually capable of having a certain brand of video players (JW Player) capable of playing previous parts of local news programs on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV through an Internet video stream for them until sometime between this past June and this August.*

• A World Wide Web site attributed to WKRG-TV had a page suggesting its visitors could join their plan to hold a debate with candidates for the position of the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama by "record[ding]" their selves asking questions for candidates and have the recordings "message[d]" to a Facebook page attributed to their broadcast operation (note: the video on the page was used as cover video for the Facebook page).** 

• A Facebook page attributed to WFNA-TV had a message attributed to its administration dated for this Thursday about some special programming plans for the main broadcast channel of WKRG-TV*** for this Thursday, this Friday (the eleventh day of this August), and this Saturday (the twelfth day of this August) (note: the Facebook page mentioned in the previous paragraph also had the message (under the words "Visitor Posts" and "WKRG was mentioned in a post.")).**** 

(*the same browsers were also usually susceptible to having a video player of this brand capable for playing previous parts of local news programs on the main broadcast channel for WEAR-TV through an Internet video stream normally used for them (WPMI-TV and WEAR-TV were related to each other due to their being members of the same holding (or "parent") company (the Sinclair Broadcast Group)) 

(**only two of the candidates were shown in the video and the videos for the polls mentioned in the second paragraph from the top of this report (the names of the candidates shown were William Sandys (Sandy) Stimpson (the current holder of the position) and Samuel (Sam) Jones ; the names of the ones not shown were Anthony Leonard Thompson and Donavette Ely)

(***WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV were related to each other due to their having the same owners and their being members of the same holding company (the Nexstar Media Group)).

(****the message had the word "Friday" directly above the names of the programs in the programming plan for this Saturday)) 

News for Wednesday, August 9th, 2017

• A digital file dated for this Wednesday with a recording of some programming broadcast by WKRG-TV dated for the year 1989 was uploaded onto a World Wide Web site for an Internet video service named YouTube.

• A World Wide Web site attributed to WKRG-TV had an article dated for this Wednesday about some members of their local news operation and other news operations being removed from a meeting with the governor of Alabama earlier this Wednesday. 

• 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. this Wednesday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had one of its news presenters (Rose Ann Haven) promoting a plan for their operation to hold a debate between candidates for the position of mayor of the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama as if there were only two of them rather than four (only two of them were said to be part of this plan: William Sandys (Sandy) Stimpson* and Samuel (Sam) Jones). **

• Some of the local news programs broadcast by WKRG-TV this Wednesday had some members of their local news operation talking about callers of a local radio program for WAVH-FM* reacting to news about the president of the United States endorsing a member of the Senate of the United States from Alabama for some reports they had about how those callers and other folks reacted to the news (they also had video of a computer monitor displaying a World Wide Web site attributed to WAVH-FM as audio of what may or may not been one of those callers played before having video of one of the hosts for the program (Sean Sullivan) talking about callers like that one).  

(*he was all ready the holder of the position) 

(**the names of the other candidates besides the ones named William Sandys Stimpson and Samuel Jones were Anthony Leonard Thompson and Donavette Ely)

News for Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

• The local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. this Tuesday ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had one of its news presenters (Bob Grip) saying he had "reached out" to a reporter for a TV station on an island named Guam (Isa Baza of KUAM-TV) before having audio of her talking about some other folks on the island were responding to a recent threat against it from a country named North Korea.

• The last segment of the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. and the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. this Tuesday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") ended with its news presenters (Bill Riales and Jessica Taloney) and weather reporter (Thomas Geboy*) appearing silent (the news presenters appeared to be working on computers whereas the weather reporter appeared to wave toward one of its cameras) after one of the news presenters (Jessica Taloney) told its audience they would have more "back to school" pictures on one of their other local news programs this Tuesday ("WKRG News 5 at 9" during on the first half of the hour of 9:00 a.m.) since the one with her had videos unrelated to them appear in place of them near the end of the segment (such as video of a motorcycle said to had "burst into flames" after being hit an a "SUV" and some video of some persons in a framed picture and the words "deadly home invasion") for a report of theirs about the person being shot to death) and after the other news presenter told its audience about the members of their local news operations set to be its news presenter and weather reporters (Devon Walsh and Thomas Geboy).**

(*at least one of the news presenters said he was substituting for its regular weather reporter (John Nodar (he was also the regular weather reporter for the one set to appear on the channel during the first half of the hour of 9:00 a.m. this Tuesday))
 
(**their local news programs usually had one or more of their news presenters and/or reporters saying parting words to their audiences (such as "good night" and "ta-ta") before having an animated sequence with a professional announcer (Jeff Davis) saying a law firm in the city of Mobile named Greene & Phillips had sponsored "aerial footage" for them and an animated sequence with the name of their holding (or "parent") company (the Nexstar Media Group) for the last few seconds of their broadcasts in recent times).

News for Monday, August 7th, 2017

• A Facebook page attributed to WPMI-TV had video of what appeared to had been a debate between two candidates for the position of mayor of the city of Mobile in southwest Alabama (William Sandys (Sandy) Stimpson* and Samuel (Sam) Jones) that appeared on their main broadcast channel during the hour of 6:00 p.m. this Monday.** 

• Between the previous calendar week and this Monday, the main broadcast channels for WKRG-TV and WPMI-TV had advertisements about their plans to hold debates between candidates for the position of mayor of the city of Mobile this August (both of their advertisements had videos of only the candidates mentioned in the previous paragraph***). 

• The news presenters for the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 5:00 p.m. this Monday (Bob Grip and Lenise Ligon of "FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") appeared to express their personal feelings over some video of a report about a person drowning in the city of Magnolia Springs in southwest Alabama on the Saturday of the fifth day of this August (the one named Lenise Ligon said, "Thoughts and prayers with that family (relatives of the person said to had drowned). Heavy, heavy hearts"; the one named Bob Grip said, "How awful. Awful, story" immediately after the other one) 

(*the one named William Sandys Stimpson was all ready in the position) 

(**some video of what appeared to be the candidates being given the rules for the format of the debate they were set to have was uploaded onto a Facebook attributed to one of the news reporters for the local news operation at WPMI-TV (Muriel Bailey))

(***the names of the other candidates were Anthony Leonard Thompson and Donavette Ely).