News for Wednesday, November 5th, 2014

• WKRG-TV and WEAR-TV had special broadcasts about the results of elections and referendums held in their local broadcast areas this past Tuesday, November 4th, as part of their main programming for that day between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m (meaning they were on their main broadcast channels (radio frequency channel 27-1/virtual channel 5-1 for WKRG-TV; radio frequency channel 17-1/virtual channel 3-1 for WEAR-TV)). 

• Each of WKRG-TV and WEAR-TV's special broadcasts this past Tuesday evening took the place of a special network broadcast about the elections and referendums in the United States in general that day from their respective primary providers of network programming (WKRG-TV's primary provider of network programming is the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS); WEAR-TV's primary primary of network programming is the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). 

• WKRG-TV had part of their broadcast of an episode of the dramatic network TV program "Naval Criminal Investigative Service" (also known as "NCIS") this past Tuesday pre-empted for special local programming with live video of the governor of Alabama (Robert Bentley) reflecting upon the election for his position (not all of the speech was broadcast, though).

• The live video stream on the official World Wide Web site for WKRG-TV normally used for their local news programming had video of some of their network programming for their main broadcast channel this past Tuesday, including commercial advertisements, the aforementioned episode of "Naval Criminal Investigative Service", and a special network news program about some of the elections and referendums held in the United States that day.