News for Friday, October 31st, 2014

• The news presenters and weather reporter for WPMI-TV's local morning news program (Darwin Singleton, Kelly Jones, and Deitra Tate of "Local 15 Today" respectively) wore costumes for the final segment of today's edition of the program in observance of Halloween.

• One of the news presenters for the morning news program (Darwin Singleton) appeared in a different costume for today's edition of WPMI-TV's local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") as part of its segment for reviewing recent theatrical movies. 

• The hosts for WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program (Joe Emer and Chasity Byrd of "Studio 10") appeared in costumes throughout today's edition of the program; even one of their colleagues from WALA-TV's group of news reporters (Candace Murphy) appeared in costume on this edition of the program.

• Colton Bradford of WKSJ-FM (94.9) also appeared in a costume on today's edition of WPMI-TV's local midday news program as part of its segment for reviewing recent theatrical movies.

News for Thursday, October 30th, 2014

• Today's edition of WPMI-TV's local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") and yesterday's edition of their local 10:00 p.m. news program ("Local 15 News at 10 p.m.") were used to broadcast announcements about their plan to hold a public discussion about racial relations in Mobile at William Pickett Davidson High School in Mobile on Tuesday, November 11th.

• Colton Bradford of WKSJ-FM (94.9) used his appearance on today's edition of WPMI-TV's local morning news program (as part of a segment about public activities expected to take place over the course of this weekend in the broadcast area of WPMI-TV) to promote his plan to make a public announcement about both his self and WKSJ-FM through WKSJ-FM's programming after the news program between 7:45 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. 

• According to the official Facebook page for WKSJ-FM, the announcement Colton Bradford had planned on making was about his plan to host a nightly radio program for WKSJ-FM with Matt McCoy of WRGV-FM (107.3), one of WKSJ-FM's companion stations.

News for Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

• According to WALA-TV, they would have new editions of the syndicated TV game shows "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune" broadcast between 3:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. this Thursday, October 30th, in that very order due to their plan to have special live network programming broadcast during their regular time periods for broadcasting new editions of those shows from Monday through Friday (6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. for "Jeopardy!" and 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. for "Wheel of Fortune"). 

• The electronic TV programming guides for the cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile did not reflect WALA-TV's plan for having local news programming broadcast shortly after broadcasting special live network programming this past Tuesday, October 28th, since it had a listing an episode of the comedic TV program "Everybody Loves Raymond" after a listing for the special network programming instead of one for local news programming.

News for Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

• The 60th Greater Gulf State Fair in Mobile had groups of local broadcasters and other professional communicators compete against each other in a series of competitions dubbed the "Media Olympics" this past Monday, October 27th (Alabama Live and the official Facebook pages for WMXC-FM (99.9) have images of some of the participants of the "Media Olympics").

• The sports segments for this past Monday's editions of WALA-TV's local 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. news programs ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had reports about Joe Emer of their local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") catching a football during a professional football game at the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana last Sunday, October 26th.

• Joe Emer explained the aforementioned incident at the Superdome and the reason for his being there while hosting today's edition of the local entertainment and lifestyle program (you may access video of him explaining the incident along with video of the incident itself through the official World Wide Web site for WALA-TV). 

News for Monday, October 27th, 2014

• WKRG-TV, WPMI-TV, and WALA-TV each had their own interview with a candidate for the position of governor of Alabama named Parker Griffith in their local news programming today (you may access video recordings of WKRG-TV and WPMI-TV's interviews through their official World Wide Web sites). 

• WPMI-TV had a report by Mike Raita of WBMA-TV in Birmingham, Alabama, in their local news programming this past Sunday, October 26th, specifically as part of a sports segment for their 5:00 p.m news program ("Local 15 News at 5:00 p.m.") since it was about a recent football game involving the football team from Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama and it was available to them through their corporate connection to WBMA-TV (both stations are part of the Sinclair Broadcast Group).

News for Sunday, October 26th, 2014

• Candace Murphy of WALA-TV's news department was the news presenter for their local news programming this past Saturday, October 25th, instead of her colleague Renee Dials, the news reporter who usually presented news for their Saturday news programming over the past ten years.

• Other news reporters for WALA-TV took turns assuming the position of news presenter for their Saturday news programming since the last time Renee Dials held it besides Candace Murphy such as Kati Weis back on the Saturday of October 18th and Rudy Harper back on the Saturday of October 11th.

• James Gordon of WPMI-TV's news department began assuming the position of news presenter for their Saturday news programming* on a weekly basis back on the Saturday of October 18th due to his former colleague Derrick Rose's departure from the position and WPMI-TV in general by then (the last time Derrick Rose fulfilled the duties of the position was back on the Saturday of October 11th).

*The position is currently open to any person willing to hold it on a permanent basis.

News for Saturday, October 25th, 2014

• The national cable TV and satellite TV programming service Spike TV was set to broadcast a new edition of the documentive TV program "COPS" with video of members of the Prichard Police Department in Prichard, Alabama (northwest of Mobile) today between 7:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and again between 10:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. 

• According to the programming guides for WALA-TV from Zap2it, TV Guide, and TitanTV, WALA-TV was set to broadcast the weekly network news program "FOX News Sunday" one hour earlier than usual this Sunday, October 26th, due to their plan to broadcast special live network programming scheduled for their regular time period for broadcasting the news program.