News for Wednesday, December 31st, 2014

• Today's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") had a segment (recorded earlier in advance) in which one of its hosts (the one named Joe Emer) was asking some of his colleagues and the son of one of them about their resolutions for the next calendar year (2015).

• Today's edition of WPMI-TV's local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") had their own version of Events Mobile Incorporated's plan to have an artificial MoonPie lowered from the top of the RSA BankTrust Building in Mobile's downtown area by 12:00 a.m. tonight as part of their overall plan for celebrating the coming of the next calendar year.

• WPMI-TV was set to have a special local TV program about the football team for the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama titled "Prelude to a Championship" broadcast today between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. as part of their main broadcast channel's (radio frequency/virtual channel 15-1) programming instead of the programs it usually had between those times from Monday through Friday (the programs were their local 6:00 p.m. news program ("Local 15 News at 6 p.m.") and the syndicated entertainment news program titled "Entertainment Tonight".*).

(*according to the TV programming guides for WPMI-TV from Zap2it and TitanTV, their main broadcast channel would still have today's edition of "Entertainment Tonight" later the next day between 3:30 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. in accordance with their regular programming plans)

News for Tuesday, December 30th, 2014

• According to WPMI-TV, the broadcast times for this past Monday's edition of their local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") and today's edition of it were set to be shorter than its average broadcast time due to their plan to have paid commercial programming during the second half of its regular broadcast time period (12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m) on both days. 

• According to the TV programming guides for WEAR-TV from Zap2it and TV Guide, they would have special local programming about a celebration of the coming of the next calendar year expected to take place in Pensacola, Florida (the celebration would be called "The Pensacola Pelican Drop" celebration, take the place of their main broadcast channel's (radio frequency channel 17-1/virtual channel 3-1) network programming (including special network programming to be called "New Year's Rockin' Eve") between 11:53 p.m. this Wednesday, December 31st, and 12:09 a.m. this Thursday, January 1st. 

• According to the programming schedule for WNSP-FM (105.5) on their official World Wide Web site, they would have a nationally-syndicated sports radio program titled "Under Center with McNabb & Malone" take the place of "The Paul Finebaum Show"*(another nationally-syndicated sports radio program) in their regular programming plans for Monday through Friday beginning this Thursday (*see report for last Monday, December 22nd, about WAVH-FM's (106.5) plan to have "The Paul Finebaum Show" added to their regular programming plans for Monday through Friday shortly after this Thursday).

News for Monday, December 29th, 2014

• The live video stream for WKRG-TV had their local TV news programming for the first time since this past Friday (December 26th) today between 12:00 p.m. and 12:30 p.m.

• The high-definition versions of WKRG-TV's main programming feed and the CBS Sports Network's programming feed in the cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile were in each other's regular high-definition cable TV channel position for a few hours today between 7:00 a.m. and 11:35 a.m. (the regular channel for the high-definition version of WKRG-TV's main programming was 1005; the regular channel position for the high-definition version of the CBS Sports Network's programming was 1721).

• The news presenter on today's edition of WPMI-TV's local morning news program (the name of the news presenter was Darwin Singleton; the name of the program was "Local 15 News") made the following comment during his presentation of a report about revenue generated through Internet streams for a new movie titled "The Interview": "Thank you, North Korea" (he was referring to news reports about the government of North Korea being held responsible for Internet threats involving the movie against movie theaters in the United States that were originally set to show the movie until their plans were cancelled as a result of the threats).

News for Sunday, December 28th, 2014

• The live video stream for WKRG-TV has not had any of their local TV news programming since this past Friday, December 26th.

• The person identified as "Kevin from Mobile, Alabama" on this past Saturday's (December 27th) edition of "The Kim Komando Show" (a nationally-syndicated weekly radio program about digital technology) was told by its host (Kim Komando) he had won a printer/scanner as part of a giveaway just for contacting her on the program by telephone. 

News for Saturday, December 27th, 2014

• This Saturday's edition of "The Kim Komando Show" (a nationally-syndicated weekly radio program about digital technology) had a conversation with a person identified as being from Mobile ("Kevin from Mobile, Alabama") who asked the host of the program (Kim Komando the person) by telephone about whether his MacBook Pro computer had a spyware program or not after suspecting that a former colleague of his for a software company had learned how to contact him by telephone through such a program since his computer was provided by the software company.

• According to the TV programming guides for WKRG-TV from Zap2it, TitanTV, and TV Guide, their main broadcast channel was set to have two syndicated episodes of the comedic TV program titled "The Andy Griffith Show" and a special live syndicated TV program to be called "It's a MoonPie New Year!" (it would feature a celebration of the coming of the next calendar year expected to take place in Mobile's downtown area) take the places of the network programs it usually had between 10:30 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. from Monday through Friday ("The Late Show with David Letterman" and "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" respectively) next Wednesday, December 31st, and have the editions of the network programs expected to be on their live network feed during that time period broadcast later the next day (Thursday, January 1st) between 12:05 a.m. and 1:07 a.m. (the edition of "The Late Show" to be on the feed next Wednesday would be broadcast first).

News for Friday, December 26th, 2014

• According to the TV programming guides for WALA-TV from Zap2it, TitanTV, and TV Guide, they would have a recorded version of a live network program to be titled "Pitbull's New Year's Revolution, Part Two" in their programming next Wednesday, December 31st, between 11:00 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. and its last few moments on the next day (Thursday, January 1st) between 12:00 a.m. and 12:30 a.m.

• The news presenter and weather reporter for today's edition of WKRG-TV's local morning news program (their names were Bill Riales and Jonathan Owens respectively; as for the name of the news program, it was "WKRG News 5 This Morning") referred to the regular weather reporter for it (John Nodar) by only his last name at certain points of it (Bill Riales did it during its "Weekend Buzz" segment while conversing with its presenters (Shelby Mitchell and Bill Black of WKSJ-FM (94.9); Jonathan Owens did it while conversing with Bill Riales a few seconds before presenting a weather report).

News for Thursday, December 25th, 2014

• WPMI-TV was the only local TV station in the Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida TV market to have had new editions of all of their regular local TV news programs on this Thursday while the others (WKRG-TV, WALA-TV, and WEAR-TV) did not due to their special programming plans for that Thursday as part of their observance of it being Christmas Day also. 

• WAVH-FM (106.5) was set to have a special syndicated radio program titled "Zachary's Gift" broadcast during time periods normally used for their local news and discussion programs for Monday through Friday ("Mobile Mornings", "Midday Mobile", and "The Drive") between this past Wednesday, December 24th, and this Friday, December 26th (all of them were to be pre-empted by this special program on this Thursday after only one of them ("The Drive") was pre-empted on Wednesday and only two of them were to be pre-empted this Friday ("Mobile Mornings" and "Midday Mobile").

News for Wednesday, Decemeber 24th, 2014

• Today's edition of WKRG-TV's local morning news program ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") had a rendition of a poem titled "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (its author was named Clement Clarke Moore; it was also known as " 'Twas the Night Before Christmas") involving employees of WKRG-TV and relatives of theirs in accordance with WKRG-TV's annual tradition of having such a rendition. 

• This past Tuesday's (December 23rd) 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.) each had a live weather radar and live videos of stormy weather in their local broadcast area appear in a small box superimposed above the logo for their local news programming.

• According to the TV programming guides for WKRG-TV from Zap2it, TitanTV, and TV Guide, they would have Christmas episodes of the TV programs titled "That Girl", "Make Room for Daddy", "The Donna Reed Show", "The Loretta Young Show", and "The Doris Day Show" on their main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel 27-1/virtual channel 5-1) between today and the next day (Thursday, December 25th; also known as Christmas Day) during time periods in which it usually had other programs from Monday through Friday (this includes their local morning news program and "The Late Late Show", a national network variety program from the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)).

News for Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014

 (correction note: the movie title "The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause" was corrected in one of the paragraphs of the text titled "News for Sunday, December 21st, 2014")

• Today's edition of WPMI-TV's local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") had a farewell ceremony for a camera operator of theirs named Jason Caldwell since he was set to leave his position with them soon (he appeared on the set of the program as part of the ceremony). 

• According to today's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10"), the edition they would have in their programming this Wednesday, December 24th, would primarily feature video recordings of some of its previous musical performances for the current calendar year, and the one they would have this Friday, December 26th, would primarily feature video recordings of some of its previous cooking segments for the current calendar year.

• According to the TV programming guides for WJTC-TV from Zap2it, TitanTV, and TV Guide, they would have the movies titled "The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause" and "Disney's A Christmas Carol" broadcast again as part of their special programming plan for the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. that was implemented last week in observance of Christmas ("The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause" was set to be broadcast today between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m; "Disney's A Christmas Carol" was set to be broadcast during the same time period this Wednesday, December 24th). 

News for Monday, December 22nd, 2014

(correction note: the movie title "The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause" was corrected in one of the paragraphs of the text titled "News for Sunday, December 21st, 2014")

• WKRG-TV's main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel 27-1/virtual channel 5-1) recently had a new advertisement for the national TV programming service Memorable Entertainment Television (Me-TV) with one of the announcers for the service's programming mentioning the cable TV channels normally used to provide the programming feed on WKRG-TV's digital sub-channel for broadcasting programs for the service (radio frequency channel 27-3/virtual channel 5-3) to cable TV systems owned by the Comcast Corporation, Mediacom Communications, and Cox Communications who reside in the local broadcast area of WKRG-TV.

• According to the official Twitter page for Sean Sullivan of the programming department for WAVH-FM (106.5), the nationally-syndicated sports news and discussion radio programs titled "The Paul Finebaum Show" and "iTalkSEC" would be added to their regular programming plans for Monday through Friday by the Monday of January 5th. As for when they would be broadcast and the programs they would be displacing in those plans: the one titled "The Paul Finebaum Show" would be taking their time periods for both "The Schnitt Show" (2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.), a nationally-syndicated news and discussion program, and "The Drive" (5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.), a local news and discussion program, while "iTalkSEC" would be taking the time period for  "The Clark Howard Show" (6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.) a nationally-syndicated financial advice program. 

News for Sunday, December 21st, 2014

• WJTC-TV had movies with Christmas themes between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. this past Wednesday (December 17th), Thursday (December 18th), and Friday instead of the type of programming they usually had in that time period from Monday through Friday (the movie on Wednesday was one titled "The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause", the movie on Thursday was titled "The Story of the First Noel"; the movie on Friday was titled "Disney's A Christmas Carol"). 

• According to the programming guides for WJTC-TV from Zap2it, TitanTV, and TV Guide, they were set to have more special programming in observance of Christmastime between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. next Tuesday (December 23rd), Wednesday (December 24th; also known as Christmas Eve), Thursday (December 25th; also known as Christmas Day), and Friday (December 26th). 

• The news presenter on this past Saturday's (December 20th) edition of WALA-TV's local 9:00 p.m. program (the name of the news presenter was Renee Dials; the program of the program was "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") had credited a student of the University of South Alabama in Mobile named Tre Baaheth for producing video she said was exclusive to WALA-TV; it had other students of the university boarding buses set to take them to Montgomery, Alabama for them to witness a football game expected to take place that day involving the football team for the university (the game was to be called the Camellia Bowl). 

News for Saturday, December 20th, 2014

• According to a news release issued by the Meredith Corporation this past Friday, December 19th, their plan to make WALA-TV one of their own TV stations was completed by then (note: the copyright information for WALA-TV's local news programming was updated by the end of this past Friday's edition of their local 9:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") to reflect their new parent company).

• According to a news release issued earlier that Friday by the parent company of WKRG-TV (Media General), their plan to merge with the former parent company of WALA-TV (LIN Media) and WFNA-TV was also completed by then (WFNA-TV was still part of LIN Media by the end of the merger).

• WFNA-TV and WJTC-TV had movies based on the same story ("A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens) broadcast during the same time period (7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.) this past Friday (the one broadcast by WFNA-TV was titled "Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol"; the one broadcast by WJTC-TV was titled "Disney's A Christmas Carol").

News for Friday, December 19th, 2014

• WKRG-TV has a new news reporter named Jacqueline Quyhn (her first day with them was this past Monday, December 15th). 

• The Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida TV market was profiled for this calendar week's edition of a weekly series of magazines titled "Broadcasting & Cable" and the official World Wide Web site for it. 

• Most of this past Thursday's edition of WKRG-TV's local midday news program ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") was dedicated to the conclusion of their sixth annual "Great Toy Drive" since it was scheduled to end by 12:00 p.m. that day (for example, its first segment took place entirely in the room used to store the toys collected from the drive).

News for Thursday, December 18th, 2014

• Last Friday's (December 12th) edition of WALA-TV's local 9:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.) had a report with Renee Dials of their news department pronouncing the name "Schillinger Road" as if it were spelled with an apostrophe s during her narration for the report (this was a common mispronunciation in WALA-TV's local broadcast area by then, normally among interviewees or guests for local TV and radio programs)

• Lenise Ligon of WALA-TV's news department used part of last Friday's edition of their local 9:00 p.m. news program to tell its audience to remember that the official World Wide Web site for WALA-TV is their "best source for news, weather, traffic, and sports" (she actually said, "Remember that FOX10TV.com is your best source for news, weather, traffic, and sports").

• Lenise Ligon corrected herself on the brand name for her station's news operation ("FOX 10 News") on their local 5:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") this past Monday (December 15th) after having frequently referred to the operation incorrectly ("FOX News") in their local news programming since the day she began presenting news for their local news programming on a regular basis (back in a year 2008) and usually not correcting herself on it.

News for Wednesday, December 17th, 2014

The cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile recently began providing programming from the National Geographic Channel to digital transport adapters connected to it (their programming was only available to digital cable TV set-top boxes connected to the system by this calendar week).

WKRG-TV, WALA-TV, and WPMI-TV each had a news conference about an arrest in the investigation of the death of a resident of Prichard, Alabama (northwest of Mobile) named Hiawayi Robinson broadcast live through their main broadcast channels at the expense of their regular programming this past Tuesday, December 16th, between 3:50 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. (WKRG-TV and WALA-TV had special news programming about the arrest earlier that day).

The news presenter on today's edition of WPMI-TV's local morning news program (the name of the news presenter was Kelly Jones; the name of the program was "Local 15 Today") used part of it to brag about their news operation being "first" to "break" the news of the aforementioned arrest during yesterday's edition of their local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon").

News for Tuesday, December 16th, 2014

WALA-TV and WKRG-TV had special news programming about an arrest in the investigation of the death of a resident of Prichard, Alabama (northwest of Mobile) named Hiawayi Robinson take precedence over regular programming for their respective main broadcast channels today between 12:35 p.m. and 1:06 p.m. (WALA-TV's special news programming was broadcast over two separate time periods: from 12:37 p.m. to 12:40 p.m. and from 12:45 p.m. to 1:06 p.m respectively. As for WKRG-TV, their special news programming was broadcast continuously from 12:36 p.m. until 1:01 p.m.)

The news presenters for WALA-TV's special news programming between 12:35 p.m. and 1:06 p.m. today (Steve Alexander Ozenovich and Candace Murphy) were usually news reporters for their news operation by then who were usually news presenters when none of the regular news presenters for their local news programming were available (Steve Alexander Ozenovich was the only news presenter for their first broadcast of special news programming).

WKRG-TV's live video stream had a live untreated video feed of the news reporter for their special news programming between 12:35 p.m. and 1:06 p.m. in which the news presenter for the special news programming was not audible for listeners of the stream (the name of the reporter was Chad Petri; the name of the presenter was Devon Walsh).

News for Monday, December 15th, 2014

• Mary Booth and Mason LaFayette of WMXC-FM (99.9) appeared on WKRG-TV's local morning news program ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") today to talk about WKRG-TV's sixth annual "Great Toy Drive" and their participation in the drive. 

• Modupe Idowu of WPMI-TV's news department was honored for a report of theirs titled "Crude Oil Pipeline Near Mobile’s Water Supply: Who Knew?" and Alan Sealls of WKRG-TV's weather department was honored for two weather reports of theirs titled "Ring Around the Cloud" and "Elements of Weather" at an awards ceremony held by the Suncoast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences this past Saturday, December 13th.

News for Sunday, December 14th, 2014

• WKRG-TV had their special programming about the Christmas parade that took place in Pensacola, Florida (southeast of Mobile) this past Saturday, December 13th, streamed live on the World Wide Web. 

• WBLX-FM (92.9) had the edition of the local public affairs program titled "Community Corner" that they and WDLT-FM (104.1) did not have in their programming last Sunday, December 7th, broadcast today instead.

• WPMI-TV had references to the main character of a story titled "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (by Theodor Seuss Geisel (also known as "Dr. Seuss")) on their local 10:00 p.m. news program ("Local 15 News at 10 p.m.") this past Saturday, December 13th, as part of its broadcast of a report about a church in Mobile being vandalized this past Friday, December 12th.

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News for Saturday, December 13th, 2014

• The news presenter on this past Thursday's edition of WALA-TV's local 5:00 p.m. news program (the name of the news presenter was Lenise Ligon) uttered the phrase "committed to you" in reference to their news department in between her news presentations for promotional purposes (both she and her colleague Bob Grip, the other regular news presenter for the program, had also uttered "your most local news at 5:00" to promote the news department on recent editions of the program, mainly while doing "teasers" for news reports either one of them would present later on those editions of the program).

• According to a news release issued by the parent company of WKRG-TV (Media General) and the parent company of both WALA-TV and WFNA-TV (LIN Media) this past Friday, December 12th, the Federal Communications Commission (the FCC) approved a plan for the companies to merge (the plan was set to be completed by next Friday, December 19th) and granted applications for permits to transfer the broadcast licenses of WALA-TV and some of the companies' other TV stations (outside of the Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida TV market) to separate companies in order for the plan to be approved (the Meredith Corporation was set to receive the broadcast license for WALA-TV).

News for Friday, December 12th, 2014

• According to WKRG-TV, if a Christmas parade were to take place in Pensacola, Florida (southeast of Mobile) this Saturday, December 13th, between 5:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., they would have special programming about it on their main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel 27-1/virtual channel 5-1) between those times. 

• WALA-TV had a news report by a former news reporter of theirs named John Rogers on their local 5:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") this past Thursday, December 11th (there was no mention of John Rogers being a former reporter for WALA-TV on the program that day).

• WPMI-TV had the same report by John Rogers broadcast before WALA-TV this past Wednesday, December 10th (the report was produced that day), as part of their own local news programming. 

News for Thursday, December 11th, 2014

• Today's edition of WPMI-TV's local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") did not have Colton Bradford of WKSJ-FM (94.9) present information about public events expected to take place in the Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida TV market between now and this Sunday, December 14th, like previous Thursday editions of it. The news presenters on today's edition of the program (Kelly Jones and Darwin Singleton) did it instead.

• During the 6:00 a.m. hour of the aforementioned news program, one of its news presenters said the network TV news program "Today" would have today's announcements of the nominees for an awards ceremony expected to take place next January in "about an hour" (between 7:20 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.) without saying WPMI-TV would have a recording of its segment featuring the announcement broadcast one hour after it was made in accordance with how they usually had each of the program's segments broadcast by then.

News for Wednesday, December 10th, 2014

• Last Sunday's edition of WALA-TV's local 9:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.) had parts of a new interview with a prolific movie producer and actor named Mario Van Peebles that was described as "exclusive" by one of its news presenters (the interview was about Mario Van Peebles' plans for making a movie in Mobile next spring). 

• WFGX-TV recently broadcast an advertisement with Matt McCoy of WRGV-FM (107.3) in a Santa Claus costume promoting a contest in which a resident of the radio market for WRGV-FM may win a trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, along with tickets for attending a concert expected to take place there on the Sunday of December 21st if he and she were to watch WFGX-TV's local news programming between now and this Friday, December 12th, for information he or she would need for entering the contest. 

News for Tuesday, December 9th, 2014

• According to WDLT-FM (104.1) and WBLX-FM (92.9), technical problems prevented them from broadcasting a new edition of their local public affairs program titled "Community Corner" this past Sunday, December 7th, in accordance with their regular programming plans for Sunday. (WDLT-FM was set to have it between 5:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.; WBLX-FM was set to have it between 6:00 a.m. and 6:30 a.m.).

• The official World Wide Web site for Cumulus Media has advertisements for positions in hosting a new local morning radio program for WABD-FM (97.5) from Monday through Friday between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. since the host for the local morning radio program WABD-FM usually had in that time period from Monday through Friday (Glenn (Qtip) Johnson) was set to leave both WABD-FM and Mobile in order to reside with his wife (Cherish Lombard, formerly of WALA-TV) in Nashville, Tennessee since she had relocated from Mobile to Nashville back in November in order to be a news presenter and news reporter for one of its local TV stations (the name of the station was WKRN-TV).

• According to a Facebook message from last Friday, December 5th, attributed to the aforementioned radio announcer set to relocate to Nashville, he was not sure about what he would do professionally after relocating to Nashville (the message was posted in response to a question from a visitor of the page about what radio station in Nashville would have him).

News for Monday, December 8th, 2014

• As of this writing, the official World Wide Web site for WKRG-TV's sixth "Great Toy Drive" has live video of the room for storing toys collected from the drive (the room is located in WKRG-TV's broadcast facility in Mobile).

• The weather reporter for WKRG-TV whose tone of voice was lower than usual in their local news programming during the previous calendar week due to an illness he had that week was able to use his regular tone of voice in today's edition of their local morning news program (the news of the weather reporter was John Nodar; the name of the news program was "WKRG News 5 This Morning").  

• According to WALA-TV, the reason they did not have the local public affairs program "Rise & Shine" in their programming this past Sunday, December 7th, was due to the folks responsible for providing an edition of it for them to broadcast being late in doing so by the time period in which they would have had it broadcast (between 6:30 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.) in accordance with their regular programming plans for Sunday ("Rise & Shine" was usually part of those plans as part of the time period mentioned previously).

Commentary: A wish for another local TV station to have the local broadcast rights to "Today's Homeowner with Danny Lipford"

• I wish another TV station in the Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida TV market were to have the local broadcast rights to the syndicated home improvement program titled "Today's Homeowner with Danny Lipford" since WKRG-TV seems to lack the ability or interest to have it in their programming (some folks in the market may view it as disrespectful toward its host (Danny Lipford) since he is a native of Mobile and its production company is based in Mobile). For example, they usually had local news programming take precedence over it during the current collegiate football season in the United States due to their broadcasts of collegiate football programming usually ending less than 30 minutes before their time period for having the program broadcast on a weekly basis (6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Saturday). I believe WFNA-TV has a good chance of having those broadcast rights soon if their parent company (LIN Media) were to merge with the parent company of WKRG-TV (Media General) since WKRG-TV would have the option of sharing those rights with them afterwards (WFNA-TV's companion station WALA-TV would not be part of the merger for legal reasons).

News for Saturday, December 6th, 2014

• WALA-TV's late local news programming for this past Friday, December 5th, was expected to be much later than usual due to their plan to have collegiate football programming from the FOX Broadcasting Company during their regular time period for late news programming for Monday through Friday (9:00 p.m. to 10:01 p.m.). This is why they had local news programming between 12:12 a.m. and 12:45 a.m. today.

• WALA-TV had a report about the death of a former engineer of theirs named Robert Savell posted onto their official World Wide Web site this past Friday and another one broadcast as part of the local news programming they had between 12:12 a.m. and 12:45 a.m. today. 

• Between this past Wednesday, December 3rd, and today, reporters for WALA-TV, WKRG-TV, and WPMI-TV were in Atlanta, Georgia reporting on plans for Atlanta to have a championship football game today with the football teams of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. 

News for Friday, December 5th, 2014

• WPMI-TV had an interview with a professional wrestler with the pseudonym Jay Lethal (his legal name was Jamar Shipman) on their local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") this past Thursday, December 4th, to promote a plan by the wrestling company he represented (Ring of Honor Wrestling Entertainment) to hold a series of wrestling matches in New York, New York, this Sunday, December 7th (WPMI-TV and Right of Honor Wrestling Entertainment are members of the same company, the Sinclair Broadcast Group).

• The news presenter for WALA-TV's local 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m., and 9:00 p.m. news programs for Monday through Friday who had a chest cold while on this past Monday's (December 1st) editions of the 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. news programs was away from her positions until this past Thursday (her name was Lenise Ligon; the names of the news programs were "FOX 10 News at 4:00 p.m.", "FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.", and "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.; the pitch of her voice on this past Thursday's editions of the programs was not as low as it was this past Monday). 

News for Thursday, December 4th, 2014

• The news presenter on this past Wednesday's (December 3rd) edition of WALA-TV's local 5:00 p.m. news program referred to the program as "your most local news at 5:00" four times during its broadcast (the name of the news presenter was Bob Grip; the name of the program was "FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m."). 

• WALA-TV had a report about a resident of Foley, Alabama who had participated in a national TV program titled "Redneck Island" broadcast this past Wednesday as part of their local 5:00 p.m. news program since the national cable TV and satellite TV programming service Country Music Television was set to have the first edition of a new series of editions of this program with her in their programming for the first time today.

• The weather reporter for WKRG-TV who was away from his regular positions on their midday news program ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") this past Wednesday due to an illness that caused the pitch of his regular voice to be lower than usual on their morning news program ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") that day was able to be in his regular position on the morning news program today in spite of the illness and the pitch of his regular voice still being lower than usual (the name of the weather reporter was John Nodar). 

News for Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014

• Some editions of WPMI-TV's local TV news programs since this past Saturday, November 29th, were not streamed live onto the World Wide Web (including yesterday's edition of their local 10:00 p.m. news program, "Local 15 News at 10 p.m."). 

• A former news presenter for WALA-TV named Nancy Pierce and a local voice actor named Barry Silverman (they were married to each other) appeared on today's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") to promote plans by the Joe Jefferson Players of Mobile to hold a series of public exhibitions involving Christmastime music, songs, stories, and poems between this Friday, December 5th, and this Sunday, December 7th. 

• According to WKRG-TV, the weather reporter for their local morning and midday news programs for Monday through Friday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning" and "WKRG News 5 at Noon" respectively) and regular host of their midday news program's "Take 5" cooking segments (John Nodar) was unable to speak by the time of today's edition of their midday news program due to an illness that made the pitch of his voice lower than usual in yesterday's edition of the midday news program and today's edition of the morning news program . 

• The regular weather reporter for WKRG-TV's local evening news programs for Monday through Friday (the name of the weather reporter was Alan Sealls; the names of the news programs were "WKRG News 5 at 5:00", "WKRG News 5 at 6:00", and "WKRG News 5 at 10:00") substituted for the aforementioned weather reporter in the weather segments for today's edition of their midday news program.

• The regular news presenter for WKRG-TV's midday news program (Devon Walsh) was the host of the cooking segment for today's edition of the program.

News for Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014

• WALA-TV and WFNA-TV* had a syndicated TV program titled "Happy Holidays America" broadcast within one hour of each other this past Sunday, November 30th (WALA-TV had it broadcast between 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.; WFNA-TV had it broadcast between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.).

• WEAR-TV's main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel 17-1/virtual channel 3-1) had a paid commercial program in place of the program it usually had between 11:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday (the syndicated entertainment news program titled "Extra") as part of their programming this past Monday, December 1st.

• According to some Twitter messages attributed to one of the news presenters for WALA-TV's local news programming (Lenise Ligon), she had a chest cold while presenting news for their local 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. news programs ("FOX 10 News at 4:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") this past Monday (the pitch of her voice was lower than usual due to the chest cold). 

*WALA-TV and WFNA-TV are members of the same company (LIN Media) with the same broadcast facility in Mobile.

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Commentary: News presenter comments on his audience's knowledge; vulgar phrase gets broadcast on a local TV news program

• I did not like hearing one of the news presenters for WPMI-TV's local news programming telling the audience for today's edition of their local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") they all ready knew about the football team for the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama being awarded the title of champion of the western division of the Southeastern Conference (also known as the SEC) for the current college football season after presenting a report about them having received it (personally I believe news presenters and news reporters should not comment on news when they should only be presenting or reporting it).

• I was surprised to hear a person using the word "hell" in a vulgar manner in a sports report on today's edition of WKRG-TV's local morning news program (the name of the program was "WKRG News 5 This Morning"; as for the report, it was about members of the football team for the University of South Alabama in Mobile planning to hold their final news conference for their current regular football season today, about whether they would be eligible to participate in a "bowl game" soon, and about their losing to the football team for the Naval Academy of the United States in Annapolis, Maryland). I wish they had not broadcast it was not really necessary for the report (it was a personal comment by a player for the football team for the university concerning the football team for the academy).