News for Saturday, January 31st, 2015

• One of the producers for WKRG-TV's local news programming appeared on today's edition of their local 6:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 6") to explain one of its reports about one of the Carnival parades that took place in Mobile today (she rarely appeared on their local news programs before then).  

• The Internet content specialist for WPMI-TV used the phrase "Sinclair station" in reference to another TV station with the same parent company as WPMI-TV (KATU-TV in Portland, Oregon) without explaining its meaning in relation to the parent company (the Sinclair Broadcast Group) as part of this past Friday's (January 30th) edition of WPMI-TV's local midday news program ("Local 15 Today").

• This past Wednesday's (January 28th) edition of WKRG-TV's local midday news program ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") had a report in which the snowstorm that affected parts of the northeastern region of the United States on the previous Monday (January 26th) and Tuesday (January 27th) was referenced by the name it was given at the Weather Channel, a national cable TV and satellite TV programming service ("Juno" was the name given to the storm).

News for Friday, January 30th, 2015

• One of the contestants for the current series (or season) of the national TV program "American Idol" (Erica Washington of Mobile) was part of a cooking segment for today's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10").

• Various reporters and news presenters for WALA-TV, WKRG-TV, and WPMI-TV were reminiscing about an ice storm that occurred in their local broadcast areas back in the year 2014 as part of their local news programming this past Thursday, January 29th, since it was the first anniversary of it.

• Shortly before this past Thursday, the cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile began sending different data about its Music Choices channels to digital transport adapters connected to it (the data normally sent before then included names based on different categories of music for the adapters to display on the channels with music that applied to them; as for the new data, it included names based on the letters "MC" and the channel numbers for the music. For example, it had MC01 for channel 401 and MC50 for channel 450).

An important notice

• I had decided to change my work pattern for this weblog for the betterment of it and my life in general after realizing I made some errors in in one of the news articles I had posted here last Saturday, January 24th (my news report for today has more details about these errors). They reminded me of my tending to put myself under unnecessary pressure for this weblog (even though I should be enjoying it) and made me realize that I should change my work pattern for the betterment of it and my life in general. So I decided to only have news articles for this weblog published during evening hours, take breaks from my computer more often, and avoid using that computer longer than necessary. I may even consider only publishing news articles from Monday through Friday in order to have more time to relax. 

News for Thursday, January 29th, 2015

• The report this weblog about an advertisement for a syndicated documentary set to be part of WALA-TV's programming soon was corrected (it had "Sunday of February 7th" and "between 9:30 a.m. and 10:00 a.m." by mistake instead of "Saturday of February 7th" and "between 9:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.").

• This past Thursday's edition of WPMI-TV's local 10:00 p.m. news program ("Local 15 News at 10:00") and today's edition of their local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") each had a reporter from another TV station (Sergio Avila of KSNV-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada for the first report; Kelly Koopsmans of KOMO-TV in Seattle, Washington for the second report) broadcasting from Glendale, Arizona about activities related to the National Football League's plans to hold a championship football game there this Sunday, February 1st (the game would be called "Super Bowl XLIX").

• The persons who provided the aforementioned broadcasts and the TV stations their represented had the same parent company as WPMI-TV: the Sinclair Broadcast Group.

News for Wednesday, January 28th, 2015

• WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") did not begin with its regular opening sequence for its broadcast today; it began with a preview of some of its segments for today instead (the program usually had such previews after the regular opening sequence before then). 

• 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 another live report from New York, New York this past Tuesday, January 27th, within 24 hours of their previous live reports from there.

• Both of the live reports for the aforementioned news program for this past Tuesday were about the outcomes of the snowstorm that happened in New York and in other parts of the northeastern region of the United States that day and this past Monday, January 26th. They even had the same person who provided the previous live reports (Yon Pomrenzie of the Cable News Network).

• The aforementioned person answered a "follow-up" question about the snowstorm from one of the regular news presenters for the aforementioned news programs as part of each report just as he for each of the previous live reports (both of the regular news presenters got the chance to ask him a "follow-up" question).

(clarification note: this weblog's first reports about the previous live reports from New York were edited to clarify that each of the local news programs only had one of those live reports and that Yon Pomrenzie had answered only one "follow-up" question during each of those reports).

News for Tuesday, January 27, 2015

• This past Monday's (January 26th) 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 report from New York, New York about a snowstorm that was happening there and in other parts of the northeastern region of the United States.

• The person who provided the reports about the snowstorm (Yon Pomrenzie of the Cable News Network) answered a "follow-up" question about the snowstorm from one of the regular news presenters for the aforementioned news programs as part of each report (both of the regular news presenters got the chance to ask him a "follow-up" question). 

• WPMI-TV's main programming recently had an advertisement with a message about their parent company (Sinclair Broadcast Group, even though the message had an alternate name for them) and organizations specialized in providing information about opportunities for new jobs and referring applications for folks who want them ("Sinclair Communications is looking for organizations that regularly distribute information about employment opportunities to job applicants or job applications to refer."). It also had the address for their own company for which these organizations may use to contact their own director of human resources if they want to be notified about new positions in their company.

Commentary: An unnecessary practice gets worse

• I had noticed some of WALA-TV's news presenters and news reporters expressing personal opinions about certain news reports that may or not be their own opinions about them on a more frequent basis over the past couple of calendar weeks as part of their local evening news programs ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m."). I wish they would not do this any more and focus more on providing facts (if their bosses had required them to express personal opinions about news reports or allowed them to do so on their own accords, I wish these bosses would reconsider either way). 

News for Saturday, January 24th, 2015

• WKRG-TV's sports reporter was one of the commentators for WNSP-FM's (105.5) broadcast of the 66th Senior Bowl game at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile today (his name was Randy Patrick Setterstorm). 

• WALA-TV's programming recently had a promotional advertisement about a syndicated documentary set to be part of their programming on the Saturday of February 7th (between 9:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.) titled "Journey - 450 Years of the African-American Experience".

• According to an administrator for the official Facebook page for Alabama Public Radio, stormy weather caused their network station in the radio market for Mobile (the name of the station was WHIL-FM; its broadcast frequency was 91.3 megacycles) to be off this past Friday morning on January 23rd (the station started broadcasting again later that day between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.)

News for Friday, January 23rd, 2015

• WNSP-FM (105.5) and the national TV and satellite TV programming service for the National Football League (the NFL Network) had plans for broadcasting a football game expected to take place at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile this Saturday, January 24th (the game would be called the 66th Senior Bowl). 

• Today's edition of WPMI-TV's local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") had a report narrated by one of the camera operators for their local news department along with appearances by him (his name and professional electronic mail address were displayed in the report like those of WPMI-TV's regular reporters; as for what it was about, it was about some of the folks expected to be among the players for the game expected to take place at Ladd-Peebles Stadium this Saturday).

• According to WALA-TV, they were completely separate from WFNA-TV by this past Thursday, January 23rd, in spite of their having separate parent companies (the Meredith Corporation for WALA-TV; Media General for WFNA-TV) due to their former parent company's (LIN Media) merger with the parent company of WKRG-TV (the Media General prior to the merger) last December. This explains why WFNA-TV was still set to have local news segment ("FOX 10 News Update on CW55") and a local public affairs program produced by WALA-TV ("Step Up") broadcast on a regular basis after the merger (the news segments were usually about a minute in length and usually broadcast between 9:00 p.m and 9:02 p.m. from Monday through Friday).

News for Thursday, January 22nd, 2015

• Today's edition of WALA-TV's local morning news program ("FOX 10 News in the Morning") had a preview of the edition of the national TV program "American Idol" that would be part of their network programming on this day since a resident of Mobile was expected to be one of the contestants for it (the name of the resident was Erica Washington). 

• Today's edition of WALA-TV's local 9:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.) had a report about the resident's reaction to her appearing on the aforementioned edition of the national TV program along with other reactions to it from members of her family.

News for Wednesday, January 21st, 2015

• Today's edition of WKRG-TV's local 6:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 6") had some parts of their video archives featured in a report about the idea of having officers for the Mobile Police Department wear video cameras as part of their jobs.

• A copy of a recent edition of the national TV program "COPS" with members of the Mobile Police Department was uploaded onto the official World Wide Web site for the program after its broadcast by the national cable TV and satellite TV programming service Spike TV last Saturday, January 17th. 

• According to WAVH-FM (106.5), part of their timeslot for broadcasting the nationally-syndicated radio program titled "Overnight America" from Monday through Friday (the first hour of it to be precise) was given to the one titled "The Clark Howard Show" by this morning due to their whole timeslot for broadcasting "The Clark Howard Show" from Monday through Friday being given to the one titled "The Schnitt Show" by then.

News for Tuesday, January 20th, 2015

• WJTC-TV was set to have two editions of the syndicated variety program titled "The Queen Latifah Show" broadcast from Monday through Friday on a regular basis beginning with the editions they had in their programming this past Monday, January 19th. 

• WGOK-AM (900)/WXQW-AM (660) had gospel music programming take the place of a new edition of their public affairs program titled "Pass it On" this past Sunday, January 18th, shortly after having an announcement about its regular host (Robert Battles) being too sick to host it that day. 

• WABD-FM's (97.5) last regular morning radio announcer (Glenn ("Qtip") Johnson) left his position at WABD-FM earlier this January in order to relocate from Mobile to Nashville, Tennessee to live with his wife (Cherish Lombard) since her positions for a local TV station in Nashville, Tennessee (WKRN-TV) required her to relocate from Mobile to Nashville.

(note: the author of this weblog may edit news articles for clarity and/or links within 24 hours of posting them)  

News for Monday, January 19th, 2015

• WALA-TV and WPMI-TV had the reinauguration of the governor of Alabama (Robert Bentley) streamed live onto their respective World Wide Web sites. 

• According to an administrator for the official Facebook page for WALA-TV, the news presenter for WALA-TV's local news department who was expected to interview the governor for their local news programming today did so about a day earlier this past Sunday, January 18th (the name of the news presenter was Bob Grip).

• The same news presenter provided a report about the reinauguration of the governor for WAVH-FM's (106.5) local midday news and discussion program ("Midday Mobile") via telephone today. 

Commentary: Not surprised by local TV news program not having a certain competitor mentioned

• I was not surprised to hear news presenters on recent editions of some of WKRG-TV's local news programs say that residents of their local broadcast area could watch the championship game of the National Football Conference that would take place this past Sunday (January 18th) "on the FOX Network" rather than "on WALA-TV" or even "on FOX 10" in reference to the local TV station affiliated with the network since other local broadcasters in the past usually avoided referring to other local TV stations by their proper names in order to stay competitive in their positions.

Commentary: Surprised by language of local TV news reporter

• I was surprised to hear a news reporter for WKRG-TV say the word "crappy" in the context of something being described as inferior as part of a report in which he had cited certain critics of littoral combat ships as having used that word to describe the ships in that sense. I wish he had not used it and simply said that those critics were describing the ships as inferior due to its past connection to a word used to describe feces (it made me wonder whether he had no choice but to say it or else he would have lost his position at WKRG-TV. He may have been forced to use it to get the attention of every one of his listeners and/or provoke reactions both positive and negative). 

News for Sunday, January 18th, 2015

• The cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile started providing programming from WJTC-TV's new digital sub-channel (radio frequency channel 45-2/virtual channel 44-2) to its customers by this past Saturday, January 17th (the channel number for these customers to access the programming through the system was 184).

• According to this past Saturday's edition of WALA-TV's local 9:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.), they would have video of the reinauguration of the governor of Alabama (Robert Bentley) expected to take place next Monday, January 18th, streamed live onto their official World Wide Web site and have video of an interview with the governor expected to take place earlier that day with one of their news presenters streamed and televised later that day as part of their local 9:00 p.m. news program (the news presenter expected to conduct the interview was Bob Grip).

News for Saturday, January 17th, 2015

• The national cable TV and satellite TV programming service Spike TV was set to have a new edition of the documentive TV program "COPS" with members of the Mobile Police Department in their programming today between 7:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.

• Alabama Public Television was set to have documentaries about jubilees in Mobile Bay and brass bands in the city of Mobile in their programming this Sunday, January 18th (the one about jubilees in Mobile Bay was set to be broadcast between 12:30 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.; the one about brass bands in the city of Mobile was set to be broadcast between 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.). 

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News for Friday, January 16th, 2015

• This weblog has a new section titled "Links to Images of Southwest Alabama's Broadcast History" (it was added today).

• A new template for WALA-TV's main World Wide Web address (http://www.fox10tv.com) was implemented this past Thursday, January 15th. 

• This past Thursday's editions of WALA-TV's local news programs at 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m., and 9:00 p.m. ("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.") had segments about a resident of Daphne, Alabama who was a contestant for the most recent series (or season) of the network TV program "American Idol" (his name was Alex Wilhelm*).

• The news presenter for WPMI-TV's local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") who constantly referred to a certain group of people in a video recording of a past Hangout Music Festival on this past Tuesday's (January 13th) edition of the program did so again on this past Thursday's edition of it (he referred to them as "the dancing three" and "the dancing three amigos"  at certain points of the program with the video of them).

(*you may access video recordings of the segments with him by selecting the titles of their respective news programs)

News for Thursday, January 15th, 2015

• The official World Wide Web site for WPMI-TV has a list of the names of Carnival parades expected to take place in Mobile's downtown area next February that they and their companion station WJTC-TV would broadcast live through their main broadcast channels (radio frequency channel/virtual channel 15-1 for WPMI-TV; radio frequency channel 45-1/virtual channel 44-1 for WJTC-TV)

• This past Thursday's editions of the local 5:00 p.m. news programs produced by WALA-TV, WPMI-TV, and WKRG-TV each had video of a live news conference about two residents of Mobile County accused of causing the death of a child that had belonged to one of them (WALA-TV and WPMI-TV had video of the residents being taken to Mobile Metro Jail live on their respective 5:00 p.m. news programs shortly before the news conference).  

• WPMI-TV's main broadcast channel recently had a promotional advertisement about their plan to have the syndicated variety program titled "Steve Harvey" broadcast one hour earlier than usual on a regular basis from Monday through Friday beginning next Monday, January 19th (this means it would be broadcast between the hours of 2:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.), due to their plan to have the syndicated variety program titled "The Queen Latifah Show" removed from their regular programming plans for Monday through Friday by then (between the hours of 2:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.) and have the syndicated courtroom program "Hot Bench" added to those plans by then (between the hours of 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.).

• According to the TV programming guides for WJTC-TV from Zap2it, TitanTV, and TV Guide, they would still have "The Queen Latifah Show" in their regular programming plans for Monday through Friday after this Friday, January 16th, since both they and WPMI-TV had the rights to broadcast it in Mobile's TV market.  

News for Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

• An article about WPMI-TV and WJTC-TV having plans to broadcast live nighttime parades expected to take place in Mobile's downtown area this February as part of Mobile's next Carnival season was posted onto their official World Wide Web sites this past Tuesday, January 13th.  

• WJTC-TV recently had a digital sub-channel added to their broadcast operation (specifically radio frequency channel 45-2/virtual channel 44-2) for the purpose of broadcasting programming from the national TV programming service Grit TV in accordance with the deal their owners had with the owners of Grit TV last October (according to WJTC-TV, the sub-channel was added to their broadcast operation on the Monday of last December 29th). 

• The news presenter for WKRG-TV who described a picture with a caricature of the founder of the religion of Islam normally referenced as "the Prophet Muhammad" as simply a picture depicting "a bearded man" on this past Tuesday's edition of their local morning news program ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") used a different description for the same picture on today's edition of their local midday news program ("WKRG News 5 at Noon"): she said it was "a cartoon featuring the Prophet Muhammad". 

News for Tuesday, January 13th, 2015

• One of the news presenters on today's editions of WPMI-TV's local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") playfully referred to a certain group of people in a video recording of a past Hangout Music Festival as "the dancing trio" on more than one occasion during its broadcast.

• Last Wednesday, January 7th, an administrator for the official Facebook page for WKRG-TV's  local morning news program ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") posted a message there explaining what had become of the person who used to provide reports about traffic in the local broadcast area of WKRG-TV on a regular basis until last November (his name was Derek (Kane) Long) due to a message from a visitor of the page concerning that person and the person who replaced him on the program (Kenny Fowler).  

• One of the news presenters on today's edition of WKRG-TV's local morning news program referred to a picture with a caricature of the founder of the religion of Islam ("The Prophet Muhammad") as simply a picture of "a bearded man" while presenting a report about the drawing being the cover for the next edition of a weekly series of French magazines called Charlie Hebdo (also called Weekly Charlie when translated to English). 

News for Monday, January 12th, 2015

• According to WAVH-FM (106.5), their plan to add the syndicated sports program titled "iTalkSEC" to their regular programming plans for Monday through Friday back on the Monday of January 5th was replaced by a plan to have the program added to their regular programming plans for Sunday on a date yet to be determined. 

• An advertisement for the comedic TV program titled "The Andy Griffith Show" was interrupted by an advertisement for another comedic TV program titled "Mayberry R. F. D."* on WKRG-TV's digital sub-channel (radio frequency channel 27-3/virtual channel 5-3) for broadcasting programming from the national TV programming service Memorable Entertainment Television (Me-TV) today during a commercial break for an episode of "The Adventures of Superman", a dramatic TV program.

*WKRG-TV and other stations affiliated with Memorable Entertainment Television located in TV markets with local broadcast rights to "The Andy Griffith Show" (WKRG-TV had the local broadcast rights to it for the Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida TV market) would usually receive an episode of "Mayberry R. F. D." through their programming feeds from Memorable Entertainment Television while all of the other stations affiliated with Memorable Entertainment Television receive an episode of "The Andy Griffith Show" through their programming feeds from Memorable Entertainment Television).

News for Sunday, January 11th, 2015

• One of the weather segments for this past Saturday's (January 10th) edition of WKRG-TV's local 10:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had an animated duck that used to appear in weather segments for WALA-TV's local news programming on a frequent basis (the presenter of the segment referred to it as the "puddle ducky" just like some of the presenters for WALA-TV's local news programming). 

• According to this Sunday's edition of WGOK-AM (900)/WXQW-AM (660)'s local weekly public affairs program titled "Pass It On", WALA-TV had a new edition of one of their own local public affairs programs in their programming for the first time since last November earlier this Sunday between 5:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. (it was usually broadcast every Sunday before then between 6:30 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. and usually called "Rise and Shine")

News for Saturday, January 10th, 2015

• On Friday, January 9th, the resident of Mobile who was a contestant for the most recent series of editions of the network TV program "American Idol" appeared in a live segment of WALA-TV's local 4:00 p.m. news program and a recorded segment of their local 5:00 p.m. news program (the name of the contestant was Erica Washington; the names of the news programs were "FOX 10 News at 4:00 p.m." and "FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.").

• One of the news presenters for WKRG-TV's local news programming (Rose Ann Haven) referred to a recent graduate of the police academy in Mobile in two different ways for their local news programming this past Friday: she had referred to him by only his last name while presenting a report about him and other recent graduates of the police academy on their local 6:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 6") that day in spite of the video for the report having a graphic with both his first name and last name. As for the second way she referred to him, she had used both his first name and last name while narrating a different version of the report that was recorded in advance of its broadcast later that day as part of their local 10:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 10").

News for Friday, January 9th, 2015

• Today's edition of WKRG-TV's local morning news program ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") had a report about the members of their news department who gave away hot chocolate beverages in Mobile's downtown area this past Thursday, January 8th. 

• WEAR-TV had a local news program ("Channel 3 News Dayside") take the place of the special network news programming (about two hostage situations in the nation of France) they had on their main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel 17-1/virtual channel 3-1) today during the program's regular time period (11:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.).

• Today's editions of WALA-TV's local morning news program ("FOX 10 News in the Morning") and local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") had video of parts of an interview with a resident of Mobile about her time as a contestant on the network TV program "American Idol" during the production of its most recent series of editions (her name was Erica Washington).

News for Thursday, January 8th, 2015

• An administrator for the official Facebook page for WKRG-TV posted a message there about some members of WKRG-TV giving away hot chocolate beverages to members of the public in Mobile's downtown area today.

• One of the news presenters for today's edition of WPMI-TV's local morning TV news program (the name of the news presenter was Darwin Singleton; the name of the program was "Local 15 Today") used the word "executed" to describe how 12 persons at the offices of a publication based in Paris, France named Charlie Hebdo were murdered this past Wednesday, January 7th, without explaining what he meant by his use of that word (see definition of "executed" in regards to killing). 

• Another one of the news presenters for the same edition of the aforementioned TV news program (the name of the news presenter was Kelly Jones) used the word "mister" in reference to a member of the House of Representatives of the United States in the position of representing the first congressional district of Alabama named Bradley Byrne (she and other news presenters for WPMI-TV usually only referred to adult persons in news reports by only their last names after the first references to them except for certain persons older than them such as persons at 100 years of age or more).

News for Wednesday, January 7th, 2015

• WKRG-TV had the phrase "Weather Alert Day" broadcast on a frequent basis in their local TV news programming on this day due to a hard freeze warning and a wind chill advisory being issued for parts of their local broadcast area that day by the National Weather Service in Mobile. 

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News for Tuesday, January 6th, 2015

• The regular host for WAVH-FM's (106.5) recent local evening news and discussion program (the name of the host was Sean Sullivan; the name of the program was "The Drive") returned to hosting WAVH-FM's local morning news and discussion program ("Mobile Mornings") on a regular basis this past Monday, January 5th, since the evening news and discussion program was cancelled last Friday, January 2nd.  

• One of Alabama Public Television's official publications for this January had a message for viewers and/or listeners of their TV programming to share some of their favorite memories of their TV programming with them as part of their plan to celebrate their history of broadcasting during the current calendar year since the 60th anniversary of their very first broadcast is this year (this Wednesday, January 7th, to be exact).

News for Monday, January 5th, 2015

• WKRG-TV had a report from the Cable News Network (CNN) about the International Consumer Electronics Show for the current calendar year take the place of their plan to have a cooking segment in their local TV programming today (they usually had a local cooking segment in their programming from Monday through Thursday between 12:00 p.m. and 12:30 p.m.* as part of their local midday news program ("WKRG News 5 at Noon")). 

• According to WKRG-TV, the reason for the aforementioned change in their local TV programming plans for today was due to a change of plans by the person who would have been their guest for the cooking segment they would had today if not for that change of plans.

• According to the TV programming guide on the official World Wide Web site for the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN), their main TV programming service's programming about the collegiate football game that took place at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile this past Sunday, January 4th, was set to be rebroadcast through two of their auxiliary TV programming services between now and this Wednesday, January 7th (the one named ESPNU would have it this Tuesday, January 6th, between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m.; the one named ESPN2 would have it this Wednesday between 1:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m.). 

(*note: all times on this weblog reflect the Central time zone)

News for Sunday, January 4th, 2015

• WALA-TV recently had a new promotional TV advertisement for their news department's recent slogan of "committed to you" broadcast on a frequent basis.

• WEAR-TV's companion station WFGX-TV had a network TV program from the primary provider of WEAR-TV's network TV programming (the American Broadcasting Company, also known as ABC) broadcast this past Saturday, January 3rd (between 4:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.). It was about the making of a new comedic network TV program that WEAR-TV would have on their main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel 17-1/virtual channel 3-1) on a weekly basis titled "Galavant". 

News for Saturday, January 3rd, 2015

• As of this writing, the TV programming guide for WALA-TV from Zap2it no longer has any listings for a recent local public affairs program of theirs that used to be part of their programming every Sunday titled "Rise and Shine" (the last time it was part of their programming was in November of the previous calendar year). 

• The local news agencies Alabama Live and the Mobile Press-Register recently had news articles with vague references to a segment of this past Wednesday's (December 31st) edition of the network TV news program titled "CBS This Morning" in which the artificial MoonPie used to celebrate the beginning of the current calendar year in Mobile was mentioned. 

• The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) was set to have a live broadcast of a collegiate football game expected to take place at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile this Sunday, January 4th, between 8:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. as part of their main programming service (the teams expected for this broadcast represented Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, respectively).

News for Friday, January 2nd, 2015

• The "best of cooking" edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") originally broadcast back on the Friday of last December 26th was broadcast again this past Thursday, January 1st.

• Some of the segments for the aforementioned edition of the aforementioned program had monophonic audio rather than stereo audio like the other segments when they were rebroadcast this past Thursday (the program usually had stereo audio for all of its segments by then). 

• The news presenter for this past Thursday's edition of WKRG-TV's local midday news program (the name of the news presenter was Bill Riales; the name of the program was "WKRG News 5 This Morning") referred to ESPN2 (a national cable TV and satellite TV programming service) as "that other channel" while presenting a report about the scores of a collegiate football game that was still happening by the time he presented it (it involved the football teams for Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama and the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin).

News for Thursday, January 1st, 2015

• Devon Walsh of WKRG-TV's news department (she was one of the regular news presenters for their local morning and midday news programming) was one of the presenters for a live syndicated program about the celebration of the coming of the new calendar year (2015) that took place in Mobile's downtown area last night (the name of the program was "It's a MoonPie New Year!"). 

• The special local TV program WPMI-TV had on their main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel/virtual channel 15-1) between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. last night ("Prelude to a Championship") was not produced by WPMI-TV, but by WBMA-TV (also known as "ABC 33/40") in Birmingham, Alabama. It was also set to be broadcast by both of them simultaneously (both of them members of the same company: the Sinclair Broadcast Group). 

• WJTC-TV (WPMI-TV's companion station and fellow member of the Sinclair Broadcast Group) was set to have a local TV sports program from WBMA-TV titled "The Zone" in their programming this past Tuesday (December 30th) and Wednesday (December 31st) between 9:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. instead of the syndicated program that was usually part of their programming for that time period from Monday through Friday (a comedic program titled "Anger Management").  

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