News for Wednesday, December 30th, 2015

• The broadcast frequency for WXQW-AM had a local news segment with a news presenter for WPMI-TV (Kelly Jones) expressing personal feelings about one of the subjects of one of the reports she had presented in the segment (the report was about campers; as for what said, she said they were "so lucky" after saying they were still taking a (holiday) break from schooling as part of the report). 

• The sports reporter for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Michael Brannon) had a sports reporter for the local news operation of another TV station within their holding (or parent) company (Jason Fielder of WNEW-TV in Saginaw, Michigan) in some live reports he did for them (WALA-TV) from Texas in their local news programming (the reports were about plans for a football game involving the football teams for the University of Alabama and Michigan State University (it was to be called the Cotton Bowl)). 

News for Tuesday, December 29th, 2015 (amended)

 (amendment note: the third paragraph of this report was amended for clarity)

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV was set to have special local programming about celebrations of the next calendar year (2016) expected to occur in Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida this Thursday, December 31st (the programming was set to begin by 11:35 p.m.* that day and involve two of the news presenters and news reporters for their local news operation (Peter Albrecht and Devon Walsh)).

• Even though the brand name for WMXC-FM was changed from "Lite Mix 99.9" to "Mix 99.9" by the beginning of this calendar week, WKRG-TV still had an advertisement for them with the name "Lite Mix 99.9" in their local news programming today (they usually had advertisements for WMXC-FM after the first commercial breaks for new editions of some of their local news programs for Monday through Friday before then). 

• WKRG-TV had a report about five of the ten most selected (or "clicked on") stories featured on their official World Wide Web site and their official Facebook page during the current calendar year debut in their local news programming this past Sunday, December 27th, and separate reports about the fifth and fourth most selected stories to be featured on that site and page debut in their local news programming this past Monday, December 28th, and this Tuesday respectively. 

(*the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV usually had a network program titled "The Late Late Show" by this time from Monday through Friday) 

News for Monday, December 28th, 2015

• WALA-TV had special weather programming take precedence over having a new edition of their local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") for their main broadcast channel today. 

• According to the official Facebook page for the person representing the first congressional district of Alabama (Bradley Byrne), WKRG-TV, WALA-TV, and WPMI-TV had interviews with him from their broadcast facilities in Mobile this morning.

• The main broadcast channel for WFNA-TV continued to have programming from their companion station* (WKRG-TV) during time periods in which it usually did not have some of their programming on a regular basis from Monday through Friday (it usually only had their local news program for the hours of 5:00 and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") from Monday through Friday, but in the case of today, it had both the local news program and special weather programming for the the hour of 6:00 a.m. before continuing to do so with the weather programming until 8:58 a.m. and again sometime between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.). 

(*WFNA-TV and WKRG-TV had the same owners (Media General) and the same broadcast facility in Mobile)

Commentary: Local TV advertisement for 'Mama's Family' being added to national TV programming service (Memorable Entertainment Television)

I liked the part of the advertisement with the actor who played main character on the program (Vicki Lawrence) as the character herself asking about where she was again and the main announcer for WKRG-TV (Jay Gardner) answering her question by saying, "on the Gulf Coast" since the program was very popular in this area when it was part of their programming and WALA-TV's programming.

(note: you may learn more about how this program was broadcast in this area years ago by selecting this hyperlink: "History of 'Mama's Family' Television in Mobile, Alabama")

News for Saturday, December 26th, 2015

• WKRG-TV had a report in which a bridge over the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta was not referenced by its official name (the General W. K. (Walter King) Wilson Jr. Bridge) and only referenced by a nickname ("the Dolly Parton Bridge") referenced by a nickname for it ("the Dolly Parton Bridge") on their local 10:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 10") on this day. 

• The edition of the local 10:00 p.m. news program for WALA-TV ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") for this past Friday, December 25th, began with animated graphics and music that were normally used for introducing announcements about "breaking news" in previous editions of it in recent times instead of the animated graphics that were normally used to begin new editions of it.

• One of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Matt Barrentine) and one of the weather reporters for the one at WPMI-TV (Chris Dunn) had each worn a red stocking hat with a white pompon while playing along with the idea of tracking a fictional character named Santa Claus delivering gifts around the world in his respective station's local news programming this past Thursday, December 24th (the type of hat they wore was commonly used in depictions of the character by then).

News for Friday, December 25th, 2015

• WKRG-TV, WALA-TV, WEAR-TV, and WFNA-TV had special programming in observance of Christmas instead of new editions of some of their local news programs for Monday through Friday today (WKRG-TV was set to have four animated TV programs titled "Christmas Is", "The City That Forgot Christmas", "Red Boots for Christmas", and "Little Shepherd" in place of their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") and a syndicated program based primarily on music titled "Music and the Spoken Word" in place of their local news programs for the first halves of the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. ("WKRG News 5 at 9" and "WKRG News 5 at Noon"); WALA-TV was set to have a syndicated program based on both drama and music titled "A Dickens Christmas" and two local programs based on music titled "University of Mobile Christmas Spectacular" and "Sounds of the Season" take the places of their local news program for the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. and both halves of the hours of 5:00 a.m., 6:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m., and 8:00 a.m. Monday through Friday ("FOX 10 News in the Morning") and their local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") for both halves of the hour of 9:00 a.m. ("University of Mobile Christmas Spectacular" was to be broadcast two during the time period for the morning news program whereas "Sounds of the Season" would be broadcast three times during the periods of both the news program and the entertainment and lifestyle program), set to have the two local programs take the places of their local news programs for the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. ("FOX 10 News at 4:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.), and set to have only one of the local programs ("Sounds of the Season") take the places of their local 9:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.); WEAR-TV was set to have the second half a network program based on based on both music and drama titled "Christmas at the Christian Cultural Center" and an entire local program based primarily on music titled "Christmas on the Coast (with the Pensacola Children's Chorus)" instead of their local news program for the second half of the hour of 4:00 a.m. and the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("Three in the Morning"); WFNA-TV was set to have a comedic program titled "The Dog Who Saved Christmas" instead of WKRG-TV's local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. (WFNA-TV and WKRG-TV are companions to each other due to their ownership by the same company (Media General )). 

News for Thursday, December 24th, 2015

• Today was the last day for one of the news reporters and news presenters for WKRG-TV to be part of their local news operation due to her plan to relocate to Tampa, Florida (her name was Avery Cotton). 

• One of the hosts for a local entertainment and lifestyle program for WALA-TV used part of its broadcast for this past Wednesday to say she remembered a former weather reporter for WALA-TV named John Edd Thompson playing along with the idea of tracking a fictional character named Santa Claus in their local news programming on a previous Christmas Eve (the name of the host was Chasity Byrd; the name of the program was "Studio 10").  

• A video recording of some members of WKRG-TV and relatives of some of those members reciting parts of a poem (originally) titled "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" was part of their TV programming today (including each of the local news programs that appeared on their main broadcast channel and an interval between two other programs between 10:30 p.m. and 10:35 p.m.) (it was uploaded onto the World Wide Web site YouTube earlier this calendar week).*

(*when the video was part of their local news programs between 5:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., the names of some of the persons in the video that appeared along with them were obscured by a news ticker normally used on those programs from Monday through Friday)

News for Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015

• Some of the special weather programming WPMI-TV had on their main broadcast channel this morning was simulcast on the broadcast frequency for WXQW-AM between 7:00 and 7:30 (WXQW-AM usually had a nationally-syndicated news and discussion program titled "Doug Stephan's Good Day" during this time period from Monday through Friday in accordance with their regular programming plan for those days and their format of news and discussion programming).  

• WKRG-TV had a report about their sports reporter (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) being honored with an award at a mayoral luncheon in Mobile this past Tuesday, December 22nd, that was part of their local news programming that day (it was about plans to hold a collegiate football game at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile today (the game was to be called the "17th Annual GoDaddy Bowl"); as for the name of the award given to the sports reporter, it was called the "Champions of Life" award).

• WKRG-TV had a report from Paris, France from one of their own news reporters (Jacqueline Quynh) on their local 10:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 10") this past Tuesday, December 22nd (they usually did not have their own reports from countries outside of their United States by then; as for what this report from Paris was about, it was about some changes in security over there as a result of certain acts of violence considered "terrorism" having occurred there over the past calendar year).

News for Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015

 (note: the previous report for this weblog ("News for Monday, December 21st, 2015") was amended)

• WPMI-TV and other TV stations in the Sinclair Broadcast Group had been broadcasting national reports about terrorism in their local news programming on a regular basis since this past November (they usually involved the phrase "terrorism alert desk").   

• A video recording involving members of WKRG-TV and relatives of some of those members reciting parts of a poem named "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" was uploaded onto a YouTube channel named "WKRG-TV News 5 Promotions" this past Monday, December 21st. 

• The main programming feed for the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) was set to have programming about a collegiate football game expected to occur at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile this Wednesday, December 23rd, between 7:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. (the game was to be called the "17th Annual GoDaddy Bowl").

News for Monday, December 21st, 2015 (amended)

(note: the previous version of the third paragraph of this report was updated and a typographical error in its grammar was corrected)

• WALA-TV had a report about a new "marketing campaign" of theirs named the "FOX10 Surprise Squad" on their local 9:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") today. 

• The main broadcast channel for WEAR-TV had a paid commercial program (or "infomercial") for the American Automobile Association (also known as "AAA" and "Triple A") instead of a recent edition of a nationally-syndicated entertainment news program titled "Extra" in accordance with their regular programming plan for the channel for Monday through Friday today (11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.). 

• WKRG-TV had two reports about an interview that one of their news reporters (Emily DeVoe) had conducted with a candidate for the presidency of the United States (Ted Cruz) last Saturday (December 19th) in their local news programming today (the first report was originally broadcast in its entirety on their local 5:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 5") whereas the second report was originally broadcast in its entirety on their local 10:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 10")).

News for Sunday, December 20th, 2015 (amended)

(amendment note: another paragraph was added to this report and more information was added to the paragraph about a new "marketing campaign" for WALA-TV) 

• The cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile started having programming from the TV programming service of the Mobile County Public School System (MCPSS TV) on a continuous basis again by the second half of this calendar week after having been without it that way for a few days earlier this month (the channel usually had a static picture of a child beside the words "Ask About Your Child's Day"). 

• This Sunday's edition of WALA-TV's local news program for Sunday nights ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") began with animated graphics and music that were normally used for introducing announcements about "breaking news" on it in recent times instead of the animated graphics that were normally used to begin new editions of it (the animated graphics that were normally used usually had audio of the main announcer for their local news programming in recent times (Greg O'Neill) saying, "Committed to you: FOX 10 News at 9:00").  

• WALA-TV had some promotions for a new "marketing campaign" attributed to them named "the FOX10 Surprise Squad" on their local news program for Sunday nights ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m."), their official World Wide Web site, and their official Facebook page today (the promotion on the local news program for Sunday nights involved video of one of the news presenters for WALA-TV (Lenise Ligon) talking about the campaign and video of her and another news presenter for WALA-TV (Sarah Wall) meeting various persons in various locations). 

News for Saturday, December 19th, 2015

• WALA-TV, WKRG-TV, WPMI-TV, and WEAR-TV each had reports with local perspectives of a new theatrical movie titled "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" in their local news programming this past Thursday (December 17th) and Friday (December 18th).

• An advertisement for one of the positions of presenting news on the local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. at WKRG-TV ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") and the position of presenting news for their local midday news program ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") was posted onto one of the official World Wide Web sites for their holding (or parent) company recently.

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV only had the second half of a new edition of a national news program titled "The CBS Evening News" during their regular time period for having a new edition of it in their programming (5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.) today due to the channel having national programming about a collegiate basketball game about 14 minutes after the beginning of the time period in which it was set to have paid commercial programming today (5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.) and due to its having a paid commercial program for its full length of time (about 28 minutes) a few minutes after the programming about the game.

News for Friday, December 18th, 2015

• WPMI-TV had an interview* with a resident of their local broadcast area who recently participated in a singing competition for a national TV program named "The Voice" on their local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") today (her name was Shelby Brown). 

• The weather reporter for WKRG-TV's local morning and midday news programs for Monday through Friday (John Nodar) gave one the news presenters for the local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. (Bill Riales of "WKRG News 5 This Morning") a gift while on today's edition of the program (the gift was a plaid blanket with sleeves called a Snuggie). 

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had the beginning of an edition of a syndicated TV program named "The Real" a few minutes before the time period it usually had a new or past edition of it from Monday through Friday (10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.) in recent times before having the last segment of a new edition of a local entertainment and lifestyle program for WALA-TV named "Studio 10". 

(*only one part of the interview was available on the World Wide Web site for WPMI-TV at the time of this writing)

News for Thursday, December 17th, 2015

• Two radio announcers for WRGV-FM (Matt McCoy and Greg Hill) appeared on the local midday news program for WPMI-TV ("Local 15 News at Noon") today as part of a contest involving one of them (Greg Hill). 

• One of the hosts for a local TV program dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles (Joe Emer of "Studio 10" for WALA-TV) explained why he was late for this past Wednesday's (December 16th) edition while part of today's edition of it (he said he was allowed by WALA-TV to attend an event involving one of his children before appearing on the program later than usual). 

• Between this past Wednesday (December 16th) and today, some of the local news programs for WPMI-TV had weather forecasts that were made specifically for folks who may had been planning on seeing a particular theatrical movie set to be shown at various movie theaters for the first time today (the forecasts usually had animated graphics based on certain objects associated with the movie (they consisted of two light sabers and two space ships); as for the name of the movie, it was "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"). 

News for Wednesday, December 16th, 2015

• Videos of members of the military of the United States from the designated market area of Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida greeting relatives of theirs started appearing on the local morning news program for WPMI-TV ("Local 15 Today") on a regular basis by this past Monday, December 14th. 

• The voice of the traffic reporter for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Kenny Fowler) was lower than usual in his traffic reporting for their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") today (the weather reporter for the program (John Nodar) had expressed sympathy for him while part of a weather segment for today's edition of the program since the tone of his own voice occasionally became lower than usual).

• WPMI-TV and WKRG-TV each had a report from a person within a separate part of their holding (or parent) company (the Sinclair Broadcast Group for WPMI-TV; Media General for WKRG-TV) without any references to that company on their local news programs for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("Local 15 Today" and "WKRG News 5 This Morning") today (both reports were about a discussion involving candidates for the presidency of the United States this past Tuesday, December 15th; the one for WPMI-TV was recorded whereas the one for WKRG-TV was live). 

News for Tuesday, December 15th, 2015

(note: the previous report for this weblog ("News for Monday, December 14th, 2015") was corrected)

• WFNA-TV recently got a new World Wide Web site at the following address: http://www.yourcwtv.com/partners/mobile/ (you may also access the site from this address: http://thecw55.com/).

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV did not have any of the special news programming their main provider of network programming (the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)) had provided between 12:00 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. today, even though the local news program that appeared on the channel during this time period ("Local 15 News at Noon") still had video of a news conference that was also part of the special news programming during that time period. 

News for Monday, December 14th, 2015 (corrected)

 (correction note: the name of WPMI-TV's local morning news program was used by mistake in the third paragraph of this report)

• WKRG-TV had a float in a Christmas parade with the logos for both their companion station (WFNA-TV) and their own station this past Saturday, December 12th (the parade occurred in Pensacola, Florida, southeast of Mobile)

• WKRG-TV had live reports from a Greer's grocery store in Mobile (specifically the one along a road named Cottage Hill Road) about ice cream from Blue Bell Creameries being delivered there for the first time in months on their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") today 

• The news presenter on today's edition of WPMI-TV's local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") used a report about a ceremony for graduates of the University of South Alabama in Mobile to say that two of their "very own" (other members of WPMI-TV) were among those graduates and mention their names (this is the way she described them on the program: "they graduated Saturday and both will be thoroughly embarrassed that we mentioned them. We do that because we love you." 

(*WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV had only been companions since last December; just a few days after the last time WKRG-TV had a float in a Christmas parade like the one that occurred in Pensacola last Saturday with only their logo) 

News for Sunday, December 13th, 2015

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had a paid commercial program for gospel music during the time period it usually had a local public affairs program on a weekly basis titled "Rise and Shine" (5:30 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.). 

• The news presenter for today's edition of WALA-TV's local 9:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") introduced a report about a person he said was a "17-year-old-boy" whereas the narrator for the report itself said the person was a "man".

• WKRG-TV had a report narrated by a camera operator of theirs named Amber Gerard on their local 10:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 10") this past Saturday, December 12th (they usually did not have reports attributed to her in their programming by them). 

News for Saturday, December 12th, 2015

• The broadcast frequency for the Alabama Public Radio station in southwest Alabama (WHIL-FM) was constantly silent between 6:05 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. today (it had news programming from National Public Radio between 6:00 a.m. and 6:05 a.m. before becoming silent by 6:05 a.m.).*

• The cable TV channel in the the cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile that usually had programming from the TV programming service of the Mobile County Public School System (MCPSS TV) had a static image of a child beside the words "Ask About Your Child's Day" on a constant basis during this calendar week (the image is still on the channel as of this writing).  

(*it usually had a national radio program titled "On the Media" during this time period on Saturday in recent years)

News for Friday, December 11th, 2015

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV was set to have special broadcasts about a parade of boats expected to occur near Orange Beach, Alabama (southeast of Mobile) this Saturday, December 12th. (the broadcasts were set to be part of their local 5:00 p.m. news program ("Local 15 News at 5 p.m.") and a special program about the parade itself between 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.* that day; as for what the parade would be called, it would be called the "30th Annual Christmas Lighted Boat Parade").

• According to WKRG-TV, the main broadcast channel for their companion station (WFNA-TV) was set to have syndicated programming about a football game involving teams of football players from Alabama and Mississippi with players representing different high schools from their respective states this Saturday, December 12th (the programming was set to last from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.** that day; as for what the game would be called, it would be called the "Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Game"). 

(*the channel usually had an episode of a comedic TV program titled "Two and a Half Men" during this time period on Saturday)
(**the channel usually had two syndicated theatrical movies during this time period on Saturday)

News for Thursday, December 10th, 2015

• Some reports for WALA-TV that were part of a series of reports for their local news programming during the years between the years 1990 and 2000 titled "Gulf Coast Postcard" were uploaded onto the professional Facebook page for one of their regular news presenters (Bob Grip) this past November.

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had a promotional video for their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") with one of its regular news presenters (Avery Cotton) talking about her planning to relocate to Tampa, Florida to reside with her husband there since he was hired for a position that caused him to relocate there (one of the graphics in the video had "December 24th" as the date for when she would relocate).  

News for Wednesday, December 9th, 2015

 (note: a hyperlink to the report for WKRG-TV mentioned in the last paragraph of the report for this weblog titled "News for Sunday, December 6th, 2015" was added to that paragraph) 

• WALA-TV and WPMI-TV each had a report about a fire damaging the home of two radio announcers for WZEW-FM (Tim Camp and Lee Ann Camp) this past Monday, December 7th, in their local news programming this past Tuesday, December 8th. 

• WALA-TV had a report about some callers of a local radio program for WAVH-FM ("Midday Mobile") discussing an idea proposed by a candidate for the presidency of the United States (Donald Trump) in their local news programming this past Tuesday, December 8th. 

• According to WPMI-TV, the digital sub-channel* for their companion station (WJTC-TV) was set to have programming about a public meeting planned for today by a TV station in the District of Columbia (WJLA-TV) with the same owners that they and the companion station share due to their being members of the Sinclair Broadcast Group (their holding (or parent) company). 

(*it was usually set to have programming from a national TV programming service named Grit every hour each day)

News for Tuesday, December 8th, 2015

• The news presenter on today's edition of WKRG-TV's local midday news program (Devon Walsh of "WKRG News 5 at Noon") said, "H-E double hockey sticks" instead of the word "hell" after quoting what a candidate for the presidency of the United States (Donald Trump) said before the word "hell" in his campaign for the presidency this past Monday, December 7th, as part of the report about him.   

• The sports reporter for WALA-TV (Michael Brannon) used part of their local 10:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") to conclude their broadcasts about high-school football in their local broadcast area for the current calendar year this past Monday (December 7th) (he said "covering" the games was a "blast" before thanking members of his audience on behalf of WALA-TV for "embracing" them "on air, online, and at the games" during their "coverage" of the games before commending the football teams for two high schools in the area (McGill-Toolen High School and Saint Paul's Episcopal School in Mobile) for having won championship football games this year.

• According to a sports reporter and a news presenter for the local news operation at WKRG-TV (Randy Patrick Setterstrom and Mel Showers respectively), a former public address announcer for the University of South Alabama who died recently (Charles (Gary) Godwin) used to work for WKRG-TV years ago (the sports reporter mentioned this on the local 10:00 p.m. news program for WKRG-TV ("WKRG News 5 at 10") this past Monday (December 7th) after presenting a report about his death on the program that day; the news presenter said he was greeted by the former announcer the year he, the news presenter, started working for WKRG-TV (1969) in response to the sports reporter's mentioning of the announcer's connection to WKRG-TV).  

News for Monday, December 7th, 2015

• The live video stream for WKRG-TV had none of the local news programming they had on their main broadcast channel between this past Saturday morning (December 5th) and this Monday morning (it had a black screen when it usually had such programming). 

• Two radio announcers for WRGV-FM (Matt McCoy and Gregory Hill) appeared on a local TV program for WALA-TV (the name of the program was "Studio 10") as part of a contest for their station involving one of them dressed as an elf today (Gregory Hill was the one dressed as an elf).  

• Between this past Sunday (December 6th) and this Monday, some of the news presenters for the local news operation at WPMI-TV used some of their local news programming to promote a plan by a TV station in the District of Columbia with the same owners as their own station to have a public meeting this Wednesday (December 9th) between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.* and a plan for the official World Wide Web site for their own station to have video of the meeting as it happens. 

(*both times apply to the Central time zone) 

News for Sunday, December 6th, 2015

• WPMI-TV has a new news reporter named Bryan Carnaggio (you may learn more about him through his World Wide Web site, his personal and professional Facebook pages, his YouTube channel, his profile on LinkedIn, and his Twitter page for WPMI-TV). 

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had an Emergency Alert System graphic that differed than the one that occasionally appeared on the channel before this past Saturday (December 5th) during its presentation of a local TV program titled "Sounds of the Season" between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. (it differed by being larger than the previous one and by having white text move across a blue area instead of a green area for such text and a separate box with the "Emergency Alert System" appearing stationary below the text). 

• Some members of WKRG-TV were honored for some of their work for their local news operation from between the first day of July for the previous calendar year (2014) and the 30th day of June of the current calendar year (both of which were Tuesdays) at an awards ceremony this past Saturday, December 5th (their main weather reporter (Alan Sealls) was honored in a category for weather presenters who appeared on television during this time period ("On-Camera Talent - Anchor - Weather") and two of their news gatherers (a news reporter named Allen Carter and a camera operator named Arnell Hamilton) were honored in a category for historical and cultural news ("Historical/Cultural - News") for a report titled "The Road to Selma". 

News for Saturday, December 5th, 2015

• One of the news presenters for the local news operation at WPMI-TV (Greg Peterson) had an interview with the host of a national public affairs program that usually appeared on their main broadcast channel on Sunday mornings through their main provider of network programming (the name of the host was Chuck Todd; the name of the public affairs program was "Meet the Press"; the name of the provider was the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)). 

• The news presenter mentioned in the previous paragraph of this report said WPMI-TV and 43 of their "sister stations" (they were all members of the same company: the Sinclair Broadcast Group) polls with the following question earlier this (calendar) week while presenting a report about the results of the polls in their local news programming this past Friday (December 4th): "Do you think the government can keep you safe from acts of terrorism?"

• WPMI-TV had a report from a sports reporter for the local news operation of one of their "sister stations" (Joe Whelan of WBMA-TV in Birmingham, Alabama) broadcast without any mention name of the station or their connection to each other in their local news programming this past Friday (the report was about plans for a championship football game involving a football team for one of the high schools in the local broadcast area for WPMI-TV (Spanish Fort High School in Spanish Fort, Alabama).

News for Friday, December 4th, 2015

• WFNA-TV had a programming feed (from a national TV programming service named Raycom Sports) for a live football game involving one of the football teams for one of the high schools in their local broadcast area (Bayside Academy in Daphne, Alabama) take the place of a nationalized programming feed (from a national TV programming service named Bounce TV) for a theatrical movie ("Bébé's Kids") before the end of its presentation on their digital sub-channel this past Thursday, December 3rd (the game was part of a series of championship football games that took place in Tuscaloosa, Alabama that day). 

• WKRG-TV had an update to a report they had in their local news programming last Friday, November 27th, about a person suspected of stealing Christmas decorations in which he was referenced and compared to a fictional character named "the Grinch" that had more references and comparisons to the character in their local news programming this past Thursday, December 3rd (for example, the report began with an illustration of the character standing in front of a type of chart normally used to measure incarcerated persons with a sign displaying his name, the words "grand larceny" and "Whoville PD", two sets of numbers ("19571966" and "12-18-1966"), and the letters "DOB").*

(*the numbers "19571966" may had been used in reference to the years in which the first publication and first TV program about the character became available to the general public (1957 and 1966 respectively); the numbers "12-18-1966" may had been used as the "date of birth" for the character while also referring to the date of the first broadcast of the TV program about him (Sunday, December 18th, 1966)).

News for Thursday, December 3rd, 2015

• WKRG-TV had a new edition of their local 6:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 6") begin about 12 minutes later than usual this past Wednesday, December 2nd, due to their broadcast channel for the program (their main broadcast channel to be precise) having part of a special edition of a network news program titled "The CBS Evening News" during the first 12 minutes of their regular time period of its regular time (this also caused their main broadcast channel to only have part of an episode of a comedic TV program that usually appeared on their main broadcast channel after the local news program from Monday through Friday during the last 18 minutes of its regular time period for those days (its name was "The Andy Griffith Show" and its regular time period for Monday through Friday was 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.)). 

• Both WKRG-TV and WPMI-TV had a news presenter for their respective local news operations use their local news programming to promote plans for the main broadcast channels of their respective stations to have a program that usually appeared on national television during Christmastime while promoting a plan for his or her station's main broadcast to also have an unrelated program after it recently (the one for WKRG-TV promoted their plan to have a documentary of theirs about a new museum in Mobile named the GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf Coast and an animated movie from their main provider of network programming titled "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer"; the one for WPMI-TV promoted plans for them to have a celebratory program titled "Christmas in Rockefeller Center" and an animated TV program titled "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" from their main provider of network programming).

Commentary: Erroneous reference to companion station's digital sub-channel

I wish the presenters for the local news operation WKRG-TV would not erroneously refer to the digital sub-channel for their companion station (WFNA-TV) by the name of the provider of the programming normally shown on the channel (a national TV programming service named Bounce TV) since some of them had done this in their local news programming recently while promoting plans for the station to have programming about a series of championship football games expected to occur between today and this Friday (December 4th) and involve football teams for high schools in their broadcast area. 

News for Tuesday, December 1st, 2015

• The main broadcast channel for WJTC-TV was set to have a special program about plans for championship football games involving football teams for high schools in their local broadcast area between 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. today. (the program was to be titled "Road to a Championship").

• Both WPMI-TV and WKRG-TV had a news presenter for their respective local news operations (Kelly Jones of WPMI-TV and Bill Riales of WKRG-TV) use the phrase "while you were sleeping" while presenting news about an investigation into the crash of an airplane that occurred in the year 2014 for his or her respective station's local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("Local 15 Today" and "WKRG News 5 This Morning") today (both reports were presented a few seconds after the beginning of an hour (5:00 a.m. for WPMI-TV and 6:00 a.m. for WKRG-TV)).

News for Monday, November 30th, 2015

• WXQW-AM recently got a new Facebook page and a new Twitter page based on the programming format they had adopted this past October (the earliest post for the Facebook page was dated for last Wednesday, the 25th day of this November, whereas the earliest one for the Twitter page was dated for last Sunday, the 29th day of this November).  

• According to WPMI-TV, the digital sub-channel for their companion station (WJTC-TV) was set to have special programming from another TV station within their holding (or parent) company (WJLA-TV of the Sinclair Broadcast Group) instead of its usual programming from a national TV programming service named Grit this Tuesday (the first day of December) between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

News for Sunday, November 29th, 2015

• WKRG-TV had an interview about advent with a pastor from their local broadcast area (Wayne Miller of Grace Lutheran Church in Mobile) on their local news program for Sunday mornings ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Sunday") under the name "Faith Time" today (the conductor of the interview and news presenter for the program (Chad Petri) described his meeting with the pastor as "something a little different" and suggested that it would be a part of a series of "occasional interviews" about religious holidays and observances before conducting the interview).

News for Saturday, November 28th, 2015

 (note: the previous report for this weblog was corrected)

• WKRG-TV had a report with a narrative based on rhymes on their local 10:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 10") that was similar to a report they had on their local 5:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 5") this past Friday for the 28th day of November that did not have a narrative based on rhymes (the report for the 5:00 p.m. news program was titled "Not Everybody Was Shopping Black Friday").

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had video of a news presenter and news reporter for their local news operation (Peter Albrecht) promoting an "alert system" for the operation along with some examples of its use by some of his fellow reporters in their local news programming in recent times during some of its commercial breaks in recent times (the system involved the phrases "community alert", "crime alert", and "weather alert day"). 

News for Friday, November 27th, 2015

• WKRG-TV had a report in which a thief was compared to a fictional character named "the Grinch" on their local 5:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 5") today (for example, the report began with video of a scene for a TV program about the character with a song titled "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" (the program about the character was titled "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"). 

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had a videoed promotional advertisement for a documentary of theirs that was part of their main programming feed on a Monday during the 14th day of last September being set to be part of the feed again next Tuesday for the first day of December between 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.* (it was about a new museum in Mobile named the GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico)

(*the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV usually had an episode of a comedic TV program titled "The Andy Griffith Show" during this time period from Monday through Friday in recent times)

News for Thursday, November 26th, 2015 (amended)

 (amendment note: the second paragraph was re-edited for clarity)

• The main broadcast channel for WFNA-TV was set to have a theatrical movie originally released in the year 1986 titled "Labyrinth" during the time period in which they usually had a local news program from WKRG-TV (their companion station*) from Monday through Friday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning" between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.) since WKRG-TV was not set to have a new edition of it (during that time period) today (the same movie was also set to appear on the channel this Saturday, November 28th, between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.). 

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV was set to have a network news program for Monday through Friday mornings titled "The CBS Morning News" and live versions of segments for the first hour of today's edition of another network news program for Monday through Friday mornings titled "CBS This Morning" during the time period in which they usually had a new edition of one of their own morning news programs for Monday through Friday mornings ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") today (note #1: "The CBS Morning News" was to be broadcast twice between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. in addition to when they usually had it broadcast from Monday through Friday (between 4:30 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.) note #2: WKRG-TV usually had segments for the first and second hours of "CBS This Morning" broadcast one hour after they were produced from Monday through Friday).

(*WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV have the same owners and the same broadcast facility)

News for Wednesday, November 25th, 2015

• WKRG-TV was set to have a special program about plans for a football game between the football teams of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama take the place of their local midday news program ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") on their main broadcast channel both this Thursday (November 26th) and Friday (November 27th) and also their local 10:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 10") that same Thursday (it was set to be hosted by their sports reporter (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) along with a former football player for Auburn University (Thomas (Tom) Banks) and a former football player for the University of Alabama (Robert (Bob) Baumhower)).

News for Tuesday, November 24th, 2015

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had an interview segment for their local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") initially appear as if were being broadcast live before a sign of it having been edited in advance of its broadcast appeared on the program today (the program usually had such a segment appear as if were being broadcast live prior to the one described earlier in this report). 

• Some residents of southwest Alabama with TV monitors and antennas may still be able to access the programming feed for a national TV programming service named World between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. in spite of the affiliate for World closest to them (WEIQ-TV in Mobile) having been set to be without the programming between those times on a daily basis since the first day of this past October by using those monitors and antennas to receive the programming feed for World on one of the digital sub-channels of the affiliate in Pensacola, Florida (the name of the affiliate is WSRE-TV; the number for the channel is 23-2). 

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had a report in which the digital sub-channel for their companion station (WFNA-TV) was erroneously referenced by the name of the provider of its regular network programming (Bounce TV) rather than by its number (55-2) on their local 10:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 10") this past Monday, November 23rd (the report was the companion station being set to have special high-school football programming being planned for this Friday (November 27th) and next Thursday (December 3rd) and Friday (December 4th) by a different programming provider (Raycom Media).

News for Monday, November 23rd, 2015

• The main broadcast channel for WFNA-TV recently had some new promotional advertisements with a different person (Jim Cutler) promoting some of their regular network programs for the channel and their brand name for it (CW55) instead of the person who usually did so before him in recent times (Jay Gardner)*.

• WKRG-TV had a new animated sequence for reintroducing their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") today (it had the main announcer for some of their local news programming and local commercial advertisements in recent times (Jay Gardner) saying, "News 5 This Morning continues with Bill Riales and Avery Cotton").* 

 (*WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV have the same owners and the same broadcast facility in Mobile).

News for Sunday, November 22nd, 2015

• WBLX-FM had an announcement about how to be a guest of their weekly public affairs program titled "Community Corner" on their broadcast frequency immediately after it had a new edition of the program this morning (they usually did not have such a message on their broadcast frequency immediately after the program before then). 

• WALA-TV had video of a report from the Cable News Network (CNN) unrelated to another one from the same network take the place of video of the news presenter on their local news program for Saturday and Sunday mornings (Candace Murphy of "FOX 10 News in the Morning") this morning as she appeared to be communicating with a producer for the program about what she said were "technical difficulties" involving those videos before having video of her introducing the other video from the network she appeared to be trying to introduce shortly before the one unrelated to it appeared.

News for Saturday, November 21st, 2015

• WPMI-TV recently got some new weather graphics for their main broadcast channel (such as a weather map that would usually appear on its bottom-right corner unlike the one they usually had before this one, a bar graphic for displaying static text of weather warnings and advisories that would usually appear at its bottom, and a scrolling ticker that would occasionally appear below the bar and usually appear smaller than the ticker that was normally used for displaying both news and weather information on the channel before they had this one (note: the channel usually had pings and lower audio for its programming whenever the new ticker appeared on it  this past Wednesday, November 18th, usually immediately after it started appearing). 

News for Friday, November 20th, 2015

• WPMI-TV had part of an interview with a contestant for a national TV program originally from a town in southwest Alabama in their local news programming today (the name of the contestant was Shelby Brown; the name of the program for which she was a contestant was "The Voice"; the name of the town in southwest Alabama from which she came was Elberta).

• WKRG-TV had a report in which a person was referenced by only her forename (or first name) after initially being referenced by both her forename and surname (or last name) in their local news programming this past Thursday, November 19th (she was the only person in the report to have any of her personal names mentioned, with the exception of the person who narrated the report).*

• The digital sub-channel normally used for broadcasting programming from a national TV programming service named Bounce TV in southwest Alabama was used to broadcast special programming from a broadcasting company named Raycom Media about a live football game between the football teams of McGill-Toolen High School in Mobile and Central High School in Phenix City, Alabama between 7:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. today.

 (*a shorter version of the report with the same references was part of their local news programming this morning)

News for Thursday, November 19th, 2015 (updated)

• WPMI-TV had parts of an interview with a candidate for the presidency of the United States during his visit to Mobile on their local 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. news programs (the name of the candidate was Benjamin (Ben) Carson). 

• WALA-TV had parts of a speech by the candidate for the presidency of the United States mentioned in the first paragraph of this report broadcast live (both audibly and visually) on their local 4:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 4:00 p.m.") today (the official World Wide Web site for WPMI-TV had parts of the speech that were not broadcast live by WALA-TV). 

• One of the news presenters for WALA-TV (Bob Grip) said a former student (and football player) for a college he used to attend had "suffered a most unbelievable loss" while presenting a report about the parents of the former student for WALA-TV's local 9:00 p.m. news program this past Wednesday, November 18th (the name of the former student was Douglas Flutie; the name of the college was Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; the name of the news program was "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m."). 

(update for Friday, November 20th, 2015: video of the interview mentioned in the first paragraph of this report was added to the official World Wide Web site for WPMI-TV about 22 minutes after this report was originally published) 

News for Wednesday, November 18th, 2015

• A new part to "The Story of WHIL-FM in Mobile, Alabama" (one of the special features of this site) was added today ("Part Seven").  

• One of the news reporters for WALA-TV (Renee Dials) used today's editions of 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.") to tell members of their audiences to contact them by telephone with ideas for possible investigations for their local news operation (she said they had a "phone bank" in their "conference room" for accepting such ideas). 

• The weather reporter who was usually only part of WPMI-TV's local morning and midday news programming for Monday through Friday in recent times (Kelly Foster of "Local 15 Today" and "Local 15 News at Noon") was assisted by a weather reporter who was usually only part of their local news programming on Saturday and Sunday in recent times (Jake Dunne) while part of their local morning news programming for today and by a weather reporter who was usually only part of their local news programming from Monday through Friday evenings (Chris Dunn) in recent times while part of their midday news programming for today. 

News for Tuesday, November 17th, 2015

• The main broadcast channel for WEAR-TV had animated graphics for advertising their local news operation and network programs from their main provider of network programming (the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)) when it had one of those programs in its programming feed today (the name of the program was "The Muppets").

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had a distorted image from an advertisement for a syndicated discussion program that was usually part of its programming from Monday through Friday ("The Dr. Phil Show") for a few seconds when it was supposed to have a (live) local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") that was also usually part of its programming for those days (there was no mention of this or the static audio broadcast along with it on the program itself). 

News for Monday, November 16th, 2015

• WPMI-TV had video of an interview (conducted by a news presenter of theirs named Kelly Jones) that initially appeared on today's edition of their local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") reappear on their local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") without any indication of it having been part of a different program by then (the interview was about a plan for a party to help a Boys & Girls Club in Mobile this Tuesday, November 17th).  

• WKRG-TV had video of an interview (conducted by a weather reporter of theirs named John Nodar) with their vice president and general manager of WKRG-TV (Mark Bunting) talking about their having a plan for collecting toys for less fortunate people during Christmastime this calendar year in one of the local news segments that appeared on their main broadcast channel between segments of today's edition of a national network news program titled "CBS This Morning".

• A paid commercial program (or "infomercial") began appearing on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV before being interrupted by other programming due to the channel having special news programming from their main provider of network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) between during the first 13 minutes of one of their regular time periods for having paid commercial programming on the channel from Monday through Friday (9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.). 

News for Sunday, November 15th, 2015

• WPMI-TV had a live interview with the member of the Congress of the United States representing parts of their local broadcast area in southwest Alabama (Bradley Byrne) on their local 5:00 p.m. news program today ("Local 15 News at 5:00 p.m.") today (the person who conducted the interview was the news presenter for the program: Andrea Ramey).

News for Saturday, November 14th, 2015

• WKRG-TV had a syndicated news segment ("The HTL Daily Wrap") based on a syndicated program for their companion station ("Hollywood Today Live" for WFNA-TV) appear on their local news program for Saturday mornings ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Saturday") this Saturday.

• WALA-TV was set to have a new edition of their weekly TV program about high-school football teams in their local broadcast area ("First and 10") begin by the time they usually had a new edition of it begin before this week this past Friday, November 13th (the edition for the Friday of November 6th began about five minutes earlier than the one for this Friday). 

• The news presenter for WKRG-TV's local news program for Saturday mornings (Chad Petri) mentioned WFNA-TV's plan to have a syndicated home improvement program titled "Today's Homeowner with Danny Lipford" on their main broadcast channel this Sunday, November 15th, between 5:00 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. in addition to WKRG-TV's plan to have it on their own main broadcast channel between 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. this Saturday on the edition of the local news program for this Saturday due to the possibility of WKRG-TV not having it on the channel during that time period if it were to have network programming about collegiate football games between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. today (they usually had a local news program take the place of the home improvement program every time they had collegiate football programming on the channel during that time period on Saturday* since they usually had local news programming on the channel between 6:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Saturday before the current collegiate football season).

(*it happened again this Saturday)

News for Friday, November 13th, 2015

• One of the news presenters for WPMI-TV's local news operation (Kelly Jones) said she, the chief of staff for the government of Mobile (Colby Cooper), and the the mayor of Mobile (William Sandys (Sandy) Stimpson) were the first to test the ice for a new ice rink (Riverside Ice) in Mobile while reporting on the rink for part of today's edition of their local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon"). 

• One of the weather reporters for WPMI-TV (Chris Dunn) said they had a "media race" on the ice rink mentioned in the first paragraph of this report with members of a local news organization based in Mobile named Lagniappe while presenting a weather segment for one of the local news programs for their companion station (WJTC-TV) today, specifically the one broadcast between 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. ("Local 15 News at 6:30 p.m"). 

News for Thursday, November 12th, 2015

• The national TV programming service ESPNU had programming about a live football game at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile between 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. today (it involved the football teams for the University of South Alabama in Mobile and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette). 

• The main broadcast channel for WFGX-TV had a special local program about mental illness titled "Your Voice, Your Future: a WEAR Town Hall Meeting on Mental Illness" between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. today (the title of the program was referring to WFGX-TV's companion station (WEAR-TV)).

News for Wednesday, November 11th, 2015

• WPMI-TV had an interview with the weather reporter for a national TV news program titled "Today" in their local news programming today (it was about his visit to Mobile today; as for his name, it was Al Roker).   

• The Internet video service Periscope was used to stream video of the weather reporter mentioned in the first paragraph of this report just as he was about to do a weather report for the program from Mobile today; even video of his doing the weather report itself. 

News for Tuesday, November 10th, 2015 (updated)

• According to WPMI-TV, the weather reporter for a national TV news program titled "Today" (Al Roker) was set to do a weather report for the program from the Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile this Wednesday, November 11th (since WPMI-TV usually had segments of "Today" in their programming one hour after they were produced, they may have the one with the weather reporter in their programming shortly after 9:00 a.m. if he were to do this segment shortly after 8:00 a.m.).

• One of the weather reporters for WPMI-TV (Kelly Foster) had used two of the weather segments for today's edition of their local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") to wish a couple of married persons within their local broadcast area (Doug Wilson and Jeanette Wilson of Spanish Fort, Alabama (east of Mobile and Mobile Bay)) a "happy anniversary" (she said they had been married for "half a century" whereas one of the graphics for the segment had 54 as the number of years they had been married). 

(update for Wednesday, November 11th, 2015: the weather reporter mentioned in the first paragraph of this report came to Mobile on this date sometime between 8:00 a.m. and 8:45 a.m.)

News for Monday, November 9th, 2015

• WALA-TV had a report about their having a new system for reporting information about traffic conditions in their local broadcast area in their local news programming today (the system was called the "FOX 10 TrafficTracker").

• A news reporter and news presenter for WKRG-TV talked about his being honored by the South Alabama Veterans Council this past Sunday, November 8th, while part of WKRG-TV's local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. today (the name of the news presenter was Bill Riales; the name of the program was "WKRG News 5 This Morning").

• The news presenter for WPMI-TV's local morning and midday news programs (Kelly Jones of "Local 15 Today" and "Local 15 News at Noon") used parts of the midday news program's broadcast for today to promote plans of theirs to accept donations of food for the Salvation Army of the United States between today and this Friday, November 13th, and for their local morning news program to have special features about veterans of the military of the United States this Wednesday, November 11th, in honor of it having been designated Veterans Day for this calendar year.

News for Sunday, November 8th, 2015

• WKRG-TV had an abrupt break for commercial advertisements in their local news programming this morning (the news presenter for the programming (Chad Petri) said the break was an accident during the segment of the program that proceeded it).

News for Saturday, November 7th, 2015

• According to the guides to the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV provided by Zap2it, TV Guide, TitanTV, and Comcast, the channel was set to have two editions of a syndicated game program titled "Family Feud" on Sunday mornings (between 12:35 and 1:35) in addition to Monday through Friday evenings (between 3:00 and 4:00) recently.

• WKRG-TV may have an episode of the comedic TV program "Mama's Family" in their their programming for the first time in years on the Friday of next December 25th (Christmas Day) since the national TV programming service Memorable Entertainment Television (Me-TV) was set to have an episode of it in their programming feeds for them and other stations in their network for the first time that day (note: the article titled "Commentary: Great news for folks who liked the comedic TV program 'Mama's Family' " has details about Me-TV's other plan for it).

News for Friday, November 6th, 2015

• WALA-TV was set to have a longer edition of their weekly program about high-school football teams in their local broadcast area for the current high-school football season ("First and 10") this Friday (it was set to begin about five minutes earlier than previous editions (at 10:00 p.m.) and end by 10:30 p.m. like those previous editions). 

• One of the guests for WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") had mentioned one of the news presenters for WEAR-TV during his visit to the program today (he said, "We have Sue Straughn from your competitor" while promoting plans for a contest that included a role for the news presenter while part of a segment of the program titled "Lasagna al Forno 3"). 

• The news presenter on WPMI-TV's local midday news program (Kelly Jones of "Local 15 News at Noon") referred to a news reporter and news presenter for two local TV stations in Little Rock, Arkansas (KARK-TV and KLRT-TV) in a possessive way while presenting a report attributed to her (this is the way she was referenced: "Our Victoria Price has the very latest from the scene"). 

News for Thursday, November 5th, 2015

• The TV programming guides in the cable system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile and the databases of the World Wide Web sites Zap2it and TV Guide still had listings for programming set to appear on one of the digital sub-channels for WKRG-TV in spite of the system having been without the programming feed for the channel since this past Monday, November 2nd.

• WALA-TV, WKRG-TV, and WPMI-TV each had video of a live news conference about a fire involving a tractor trailer in Saraland, Alabama (north of Mobile in Mobile County) in their local news programming this morning (WPMI-TV had the shortest delay in their broadcast of the news conference (WALA-TV had the longest delay); they were also the only ones to have had the end of the news conference broadcast live).

• Six  reporters for WKRG-TV (Peter Albrecht, Bill Riales, Devon Walsh, John Nodar, Emily DeVoe, and Joseph Blake (J. B.) Biunno) were each testing six different brands of pizza unbeknownst to them (Red Baron Classic Crust, DiGiorno's Rising Crust, Totino's Party Pizza, Tony's Pepperoni Pizza, Sam's Choice Pepperoni Pizza, and California Pizza Kitchen Crispy Crust)* on their local midday news program ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") before voting** on their favorites by the numbers they were given for them (two reporters had each voted for the brands of Red Baron and Totino's pizza whereas the other reporters had each voted for the brands of California Pizza Kitchen and DiGiorno's pizza respectively).

 (*one of the reporters said the pizzas were to be the six most popular brands at the store from which they were purchased: a Wal-Mart store)

(**the same reporter who said the pizzas were the six most popular brands at the Wal-Mart store had also placed the number for the Sam's Choice brand of pizza below the one for the Tony's pizza brand)

News for Wednesday, November 4th, 2015

• WALA-TV had two news reports with national news reporters (Conor Powell and Jonathan Serrie of the FOX News Channel respectively) using the brand name of their local news operation ("FOX 10 News") to finish them in their programming this past Tuesday, November 3rd

• WKRG-TV had a report from another TV station within their holding (or parent) company (Media General) on their local news program for Saturday mornings ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Saturday") last Saturday, October 31st (the news presenter for the program (Chad Petri) referred to the station (WIAT-TV in Birmingham, Alabama) as their "sister-station" while presenting the report).

• WKRG-TV had the animated title sequence that was normally used for segments of their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") involving either news from the World Wide Web or news about technology and the Internet in general until the Friday of this past October 23rd on their local news program for Sunday mornings ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Sunday") last Sunday, November 1st.

News for Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015

• WPMI-TV had a report for a national news program from their holding (or parent) company on their local 5:00 p.m. news program ("Local 15 News at 5 p.m.") last Sunday, November 1st (the name of the program was "Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson"; the name of the the holding company was the Sinclair Broadcast Group). 

• WALA-TV had a report about a new video game (Yoshi's Woolly World) on their local 9:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") this past Monday, November 2nd (it was part of a regular series of features for the program dedicated to technology ("Daily Dot Com"); it usually did not have reports about specific video games by then). 

• WKRG-TV had reports and discussions about some members of their local news operation participating in a series of contests with members of other broadcast stations in Mobile at the 61st Greater Gulf State Fair in Mobile in their local news programming today and this past Monday, November 2nd (the series was called the "media Olympics"). 

News for Monday, November 2nd, 2015

• WALA-TV had local news programming between 12:13 a.m. and 12:44 a.m. today due to their broadcast channel for it (their main broadcast channel) having network programming about a professional baseball game since around 7:00 p.m. yesterday until sometime between 12:00 a.m. and 12:13 a.m. today. 

• Between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. today, WKRG-TV had programming from a national TV programming service named ION Television (or ION TV for short) take the place of weather programming for one of their digital sub-channels in accordance with this message that occasionally appeared on the channel recently: "Weather information on this digital channel 5.2 will be permanently replaced by ION TV on Monday, Nov 2nd. Please use wkrg.com or the free News 5 weather app for weather, outside of our newscasts".  

• Between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. today, the cable TV channel in the cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile that usually had programming from the digital sub-channel for WKRG-TV mentioned in the previous paragraph of this report had this message take the place of the programming: "The programming previously seen on on[*] this channel is no longer being provided by the station" (see previous paragraph about that programming; as for the programming that took the place of it, the cable TV system all ready had it by then)

(*the word "on" really appeared twice in the message)

News for Sunday, November 1st, 2015

 (note: the report titled "News for Friday, October 30th, 2015" was updated)

• A message attributed to the vice president and general manager of WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV (Mark Bunting) concerning changes planned for one of the digital sub-channels for WKRG-TV was posted onto the official Facebook page for WKRG-TV this past Saturday, October 31st. 

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV did not have a local public affairs program that was usually part of its programming on Sunday between 5:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. this Sunday (the name of the program was "Rise & Shine"); the one that was in its place usually appeared on the channel and the channels of other local TV stations in various other time periods on various calendar days on a weekly basis: Southfit TV).   

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had a national weekly public affairs program ("FOX News Sunday") during the second half of their regular time period for having local news programming on Saturday and Sunday mornings (the whole time period was from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.) this Sunday due to their plan for the channel to have national professional football programming during their regular time period for having the public affairs program on the channel (8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.).  

News for Saturday, October 31st, 2015

• One of the digital sub-channels for WFGX-TV had programming from a new national TV programming service that was set to begin today (the sub-channel (virtual channel 35-3/radio frequency channel 50-3) was added to their broadcast operation for the purpose of broadcasting programs from the service; as for the name of the service, it was Comet).

• The digital sub-channel for WKRG-TV that usually only had weather information (including graphics, text, and instructional programs) had an updated version of a message it had earlier this calendar week about changes planned for it: "Weather information on this digital channel 5.2 will be permanently replaced by ION TV on Monday, Nov 2nd. Please use wkrg.com or the free News 5 weather app for weather, outside of our newscasts". 

News for Friday, October 30th, 2015 (updated)

 (update for November 1st, 2015: the World Wide Web address for the hyperlink "Dunne" was replaced)

• WPMI-TV has a new weather reporter for Saturday and Sunday named Jake Dunne (he was given an introduction on their local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") today). 

• The hosts for WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program (Joe Emer and Chasity Byrd of "Studio 10") wore costumes for today's edition of the program in observance of Halloween and the theme for the 61st Greater Gulf State Fair in Mobile (the theme was based on a theatrical movie titled "The Wizard of Oz"; as for their costumes, the one named Joe Emer was dressed like the scarecrow in the movie while the one named Chasity Byrd was dressed like the person named Dorothy in the same movie).

• WKRG-TV did not have a certain animated sequence that was normally used to introduce segments of their local 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") about certain news reports and features from the World Wide Web or reports about technology and the World Wide Web in their broadcasts of such segments for the program this week just like previous weeks (the sequence usually had audio of a news presenter of theirs named Rose Ann Haven saying, "Wake up! And now 'Around the Web and Around the World'...and the gulf coast too").