News for Friday, June 30th, 2017 (amended)

(note: the parenthesized paragraph with two asterisks was edited for clarity)

• The sports segment for 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 Wednesday on the twenty-eighth day of this June had an animated sequence not normally used in its broadcasts in recent times (it was presented by a member of their local news operation who had joined the operation earlier this June (Robby Baker) involving the voice of an announcer often used in providing new announcements for their programming in recent times (Jeff Davis) rather the one who provided the introduction for all of their local news programs and some announcements for some advertisements of theirs before him (Jay Gardner). 

• The hosts of a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles (Chasity Byrd and Joe Emer of "Studio 10") that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV this past Wednesday had said two other members of the local news operation for WALA-TV (a news presenter named Lenise Ligon and a news reporter named Alexa Knowles) were to appear on the program as part of a contest for the program named "Dale's Seasoning Cook-off Challenge" in addition to the one it had in its installment for that Wednesday (a news reporter named Hal Scheurich).*

• 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. this past Thursday on the twenty-ninth day of this June ("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." respectively) each had a video about what a member of their local news operation (a news reporter and a news presenter named Renee Dials) had planned on doing after retiring from the operation by this Friday.** 

• The sports segment for the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the first half of the hour of 6:00 p.m. this past Thursday ("WKRG News 5 at 6") had what appeared to be a recording of the reporter mentioned in the first paragraph from the top of this report attempting to make contact with a professional basketball player (named Jimmy Butler) for a report about the player telling a group of folks at a news conference how to contact him by telephone.***

(*the one named Joe Emer said the Wednesday for this installment of the program was the "first of three Wednesdays in a row" to have one of those members)

(**when the video appeared on the program for the hour of 5:00 p.m., the narration for it had an incorrect calendar year for when the member had joined the operation (1997 instead of 1977); when it appeared on the other programs, the narration had the correct calendar year in place of it (a recording of the video with the correct calendar year on the program for the hour of 9:00 p.m. was uploaded onto a site attributed to WALA-TV by the end of the day))

(***the reporter had asked whether the telephone number was legitimate or not while on the set of the program near the end of the segment)

News for Thursday, June 29th, 2017

• The news presenters for 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. on the Wednesday of the twenty-eighth day of this June (Bob Grip and Lenise Ligon of "FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m." respectively) had used certain parts of them to mention a colleague of theirs (a news reporter named Rebekah Hoeger) leaving her position in their local news operation for a different position in a different company.*

• 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. this past Wednesday ("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." respectively) each had video of what appeared to had been a luncheon for a member of their local news operation (a news reporter and a news presenter named Renee Dials)** before having a video about a personal connection she had to one of the cities in their local broadcast area (the city of Satsuma in southwest Alabama) during her time as a member of the operation between reports of her retiring from the operation by the Friday of the thirtieth day of this June (a Facebook page about one of the news presenters for those programs (Bob Grip) had static images of what appeared to had been the same luncheon).*** 

• The hosts of a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 a.m. this past Wednesday (Chasity Byrd and Joe Emer on "Studio 10") each had a story involving past members of the local news operation for WALA-TV for the program (the one named Chasity Byrd had said five of those past reporters (Leticia Bush (Bereola), April Douglas (Miller), Andrew Perez, Denise Hrdlica (Rowell), and Anissa Centers) were interviewed about the member of the operation mentioned in the second paragraph (after presenting a video about her career that was part of some of their programming this past Tuesday) whereas the one named Joe Emer had said two other past members (Cary Chow and Qwesi (Q) McCray) were part of a wedding (for Cary Chow) attended by him. 

(*A Facebook page attributed to this colleague of theirs had a message attributed to her about her leaving the operation dated for the Sunday of the twenty-fifth day of this June)

(**the video of the luncheon was also part of the local news program that appeared on the channel during the hour of 4:00 p.m. that day and this Thursday ("FOX 10 News at 4:00 p.m."); it was also part of the installment of the program mentioned in the third paragraph from the top of this report that appeared on the channel this Thursday)

(***some video of a weather reporter for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (named John Nodar) talking about the member of the local news operation for WALA-TV mentioned in the second paragraph from the top of this report preceded the video of the luncheon mentioned in that paragraph on the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hour of 9:00 p.m. this past Wednesday (he appeared to be on the set on the local news programs for WKRG-TV while doing so))  

News for Wednesday, June 28th, 2017

• One of the hosts of a weekly radio program for Mississippi Public Broadcasting dedicated to discussing technology (Cherita Brent of "Everyday Tech") had used one of the last two minutes of its installment for this Wednesday to announce that this calendar week would be her last week of being part of Mississippi Public Broadcasting. 

• 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. on the Tuesday of the twenty-seventh day of this June ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had a vertical image of the Capitol in the city of Washington in the District of Columbia and the words "Health Care Debate" appear sideways on a monitor that was set in a horizontal position while one of its news presenters (Mel Showers (the name of its other news presenter was Rose Ann Haven)) was presenting a report related to health.  

• 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 Tuesday of the twenty-seventh day of this June ("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." respectively) each had a video about a member of their local news operation (a news reporter and a news presenter named Renee Dials) talking about her time as an investigator for the operation between reports of her retiring from the operation by the Friday of the thirtieth day of this June. 

• The guides to the main broadcast channel for WFNA-TV for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. for next Monday through Friday (the third through seventh days of July for this calendar year) TitanTV, Zap2it, and Comcast had the names of two different types of programming that were not usually listed for those times for those (calendar) days in recent times (they usually had the name of a local radio program ("The Uncle Henry Show") listed for those hours for those days in recent times; as for the names of the types of programming they had for those hours for those days for the next calendar week, they had "paid programming" in reference to paid commercial programming for the hour of 5:00 a.m. and "The Andy Griffith Show" in reference to entertainment programming for the hour of 6:00 a.m.).

News for Tuesday, June 27th, 2017

• A Facebook page attributed to one of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Melissa Constanzer) had a message attributed to her dated for the Sunday of the twenty-fifth day of this June about a plan for her to leave her position in the operation for a position in the broadcast operation of a company specialized in providing weather information named AccuWeather. 

• A Facebook page attributed to one of the news presenters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Bob Grip) had a message attributed to him dated for the Monday of the twenty-sixth day of this June with a hyperlink to a recording of a TV program of theirs dated for the calendar year 2012 about the history of a series of programming segments for the operation usually hosted by him named "Fugitive Files".  

• A Facebook page attributed to WKRG-TV had a message attributed to its administration dated for the Monday of the twenty-sixth day of this June asking visitors of the page about whether they had trouble viewing their local news programming by then or not, along with some advise on how they could view some of their local news programs if they were really having trouble viewing them by then and a graphic with a message explaining why they may or may not have had trouble viewing them. 

• The local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hours of 4:00 p.m., 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 twenty-sixth day of this June ("FOX 10 News at 4:00 p.m.", "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." respectively) each had a video about a member of their local news operation (named Renee Dials) talking about subjects described as having been some of the most memorable subjects of her time as a news reporter for the operation between reports of her retiring from the operation by the Friday of the thirtieth day of this June. 

News for Monday, June 26th, 2017

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had an advertisement about a plan to have two of their local news programs ("WKRG News 5 at 6 [p.m.]" and "WKRG News 5 at 6:30 [p.m.]") broadcast from a boardwalk in the city of Pensacola in the state of Florida on the Tuesday of the twenty-seventh day of this June.   

• A World Wide Web site attributed to WEAR-TV had an article about a plan to have WEAR-TV and WFGX-TV host a discussion about trafficking in the state of Florida on the Tuesday of the twenty-seventh day of this June and a plan to have it broadcast through both the site and one of the broadcast channels for WFGX-TV.   

• A World Wide Web site where customers of the cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile could access the programming feeds for the system over the Internet as part of their subscriptions to the system (XFINITY Stream) had the programming feeds for Alabama Public Television normally used to provide programs from two national TV programming services named WORLD and PBS Kids Channel appear as though they were in each other's channel position in the system, even though it had the names of their programs correspond with their correct positions in the system.

News for Sunday, June 25th, 2017

• The news presenter for the local news program that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV during the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. this Sunday (Chad Petri of "WKRG News 5 This Morning: Sunday") used the last few seconds of its installment for this Sunday to say that it was the last one for its weather reporter (Melissa Constanzer)* and say that he and other members of WKRG-TV were going to miss her (he also said she was a "great pal" and "a great meteorologist" to him).  

• The news presenters for the local news programs that appeared on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV during the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. this Sunday (Kati Weis on "FOX 10 News at 6:00 a.m." and Lee Peck on "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") used part of their respective programs to present a report about the career of a colleague of theirs (a news reporter and a news presenter named Renee Dials) that was originally part of a celebration of her having been part of their local news operation for 40 years earlier this calendar year before presenting reports about her being set to retire from the operation on the Friday of the thirtieth day of this June (after the program with Lee Peck appears on the channel that day) and about how her career would be celebrated in their programming by the end of the calendar week for that Friday (they said the celebrations would involve all of their "newscasts" for the week, involve other colleagues of hers, former colleagues of hers, and "city leaders" talking about how her career "impacted" a certain community, involve an "inside look into her hometown", and involve what she had planned on doing after retiring). 

News for Saturday, June 24th, 2017

(correction note: an incorrect surname was used unintentionally in reference to the (sports) reporter referenced in the second paragraph below this sentence for a previous report about him and other subjects for this weblog)

• A directory of telephone numbers for residents of the county of Mobile in southwest Alabama dated for this June named "The Real Yellow Pages" had references to two former radio stations based in this area (WABB-AM and WABB-FM).  

• The sports segments of Saturday editions of one of the local news programs for WKRG-TV ("WKRG News 5 at 6") were usually presented by their news presenters in recent times (usually by a member of their local news operation named Ashley Knight) in recent times until the edition for this Saturday (the one for this Saturday was presented by the newest sports reporter for their local news operation (Robby Baker)).  

• A member of the local news operation at WPMI-TV who mainly presented reports about sports and occasionally presented reports about news in general for some of their local news programming in recent times (Lance Crawford) appeared to be doing a live news report unrelated to sports for a local news program that was usually part of their programming during the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times earlier this June (the name of the program was "Local 15 Today"). 

• The cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile usually had information pertaining to one of the programming feeds for a TV station in the city of Birmingham (WBRC-TV) in central Alabama in its guide to a programming feed similar to it from a station based in southwest Alabama (WFNA-TV) in recent times (both feeds were usually set to have programming from a national TV programming service named Bounce TV; as for the information pertaining to the one for the station in Birmingham in the cable TV system, it usually had the name of that station and the names of some of its local TV programs ("Bounce Around Birmingham"  and "WBRC News") listed for times when the feed for the station in Mobile would actually have programs for the national TV programming service.