News for Monday, March 30th, 2015

• The director of the promotions department for WALA-TV was cooking on today's edition of their local entertainment and lifestyle program (the name of this director was Kyle Claude; the name of the program was "Studio 10")

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV (radio frequency channel 47-1/virtual channel 5-1) had the first edition of their new local 9:00 a.m. news program for Monday through Friday in its programming today (the name of the program was "WKRG News 5 at 9").*

• The first edition of the aforementioned news program had an "Around the Web and Around the World" segment** just like WKRG-TV's other local morning news program for Monday through Friday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning").**

*The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV usually had paid commercial programming between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday before today and still did after the end of the first edition of their new 9:00 a.m. news program by 9:30 a.m.

**The other morning news program WKRG-TV usually had before the start of their new local 9:00 a.m. news program usually had two "Around the Web and Around the World" segments from Monday through Friday.

News for Sunday, March 29th, 2015

• WKRG-TV recently had a new programming segment concerning paid commercial programs (also known as "infomercials") added to their regular programming plans for their main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel 47-1/virtual channel 5-1).

• The aforementioned programming segment had the voice of the same person who did the vocal announcement for the audible portion of the last programming segment WKRG-TV had concerning paid commercial programs and the vocal announcements for the animated sequences in their recent local news programming (his name was Jay Gardner). 

• The text in the visual portion of the new programming segment concerning paid commercial programs for WKRG-TV's main broadcast channel did not match the announcement in its audible portion like the text in the last programming segment they had concerning paid commercial programs.

Commentary: No "thanks"

• Some of the news presenters for WKRG-TV on recent editions of their local news programs used the phrase "thanks to" while citing a poll conducted for them as one the reasons why organizers for a yearly festival of music called "BayFest" decided to plan another one for Mobile's down-town area rather than another location for the first time this calendar year since most of the results in the poll appeared to favor the idea of having another one in the down-town area smaller than previous ones rather than one in a different location about the same size as previous festivals. I wish those news presenters had not used that phrase since it made them sound unobjective and proud to have had a poll of their very own make news of their very own when they should only be presenting facts without either their own personal feelings or the personal feelings of their colleagues or bosses. 

News for Friday, March 27th, 2015

• According to today's edition of WPMI-TV's local morning news program ("Local 15 Today"), their new reporter named Katie Emer (or Katie Herrera, as she was called) was given the position of field reporter for the program since the last person to hold it was promoted recently (the name of the previous field reporter for the program was Stephen Quinn).

• The new reporter for WPMI-TV mentioned in the previous paragraph was given a formal welcome and introduction on today's edition of their local morning news program.

• One of the weather reporters for WALA-TV mentioned the recent death of a former weather reporter and feature reporter for WKRG-TV during one of the weather segments for this past Thursday's edition of WALA-TV's local 9:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") on March 26th since he used to work with him as an intern for WKRG-TV (the name of the weather reporter for WALA-TV was Jason Smith; the name of the one for WKRG-TV was Jere Hough).

• WALA-TV had an edition of the syndicated TV game show "Jeopardy!" pre-empted by local news programming for about a minute in their overall programming this past Thursday since one of the news presenters for the local news program that usually preceded "Jeopardy!" in their overall programming for Monday through Friday ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") did not finish presenting details pertaining to its "special report" about a tax referendum expected to take place in Baldwin County, Alabama next Tuesday, March 31st, by the time they usually had the beginning of an edition of "Jeopardy!" in their overall programming from Monday through Friday (the news program was interrupted by the opening sequence for "Jeopardy!" for about a second before the pre-emption at 6:00 p.m.).

News for Thursday, March 26th, 2015

• According to WKRG-TV, a former weather reporter and feature reporter of theirs named Jere Hough died of Alzheimer's disease today (his death was announced during today's editions of their local 12:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. news programs)

• The official World Wide Web site for WKRG-TV had an article about his death in which the circumstances of how he became a former weather reporter and feature reporter were not mentioned with that fact that he left WKRG-TV in the year 2009 (he was fired due to budget problems by the corporate owners of WKRG-TV).

• The Internet video service YouTube has video recordings of some of his appearances in WKRG-TV's local TV programming (including a promotional advertisement for their local morning news program, a report about a famous checker player in their local broadcast area, and an advertisement for a business based in that area).

News for Wednesday, March 25th, 2015

• The local news department for WKRG-TV recently got a new reporter named Emily DeVoe.

• The local news department for WPMI-TV also got a new reporter recently; her name was Katie Emer, even though she was called "Katie Herrera" during their local news programming today.

• The aforementioned Katie Emer was the same Katie Emer who had married one of the hosts for WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program (the name of this host was Joe Emer; the name of the program was "Studio 10") and the same Katie Emer who appeared on local TV news programs as a representative for the Salvation Army of Coastal Alabama (she was their director of public relations).

News for Tuesday, March 24th, 2015

• The Internet video service YouTube has video recordings of two promotional advertisements for WALA-TV from between the years 1990 and 1994 with a former news reporter and news presenter for WALA-TV who died of cranial bleeding last Friday, March 20th.

• According to the programming guides for WFGX-TV's main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel 50-1/virtual channel 35-1) provided by Zap2it, TitanTV, TV Guide, and Comcast, WFGX-TV was set to begin broadcasting a new syndicated TV game show titled "Monopoly Millionaires' Club" on a weekly basis beginning this Sunday, March 29th. As for the time period in which they would have it broadcast on a weekly basis, that would be between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m (the Game Show Network was set to have the same edition of the program to be broadcast by WFGX-TV this Sunday broadcast later next Tuesday, March 31st, between both 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. and between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

News for Monday, March 23rd, 2015

• According to WABC-TV in New York, New York, a former news reporter and news presenter for WALA-TV named Lisa Colagrossi died of cerebral bleeding last Friday, March 20th (she was a news reporter and news presenter for WABC-TV by then).

• Today's edition of WKRG-TV's local morning news program ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") had a new animated opening sequence for its "Around the Web and Around the World" segments (it had an image of a tablet computer displaying an image of Earth with the words "Around the Web" and "Around the World" superimposed).

• One of the regular news presenters for the morning news program referred to a news reporter for KNVX-TV in Phoenix, Arizona in one of the reports for its "Around the Web and Around the World" segments for today as having worked for WKRG-TV as a news reporter and as news presenter for their local Saturday and Sunday news programming a few years ago (the name of the news presenter was Avery Cotton; the name of the news reporter was Lauren Vargas).

• The World Wide Web site Zap2it had no information about the programming WFGX-TV would have on their main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel 50-1/virtual channel 35-1) between 12:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. this past Sunday, March 22nd (it had the words "To Be Announced" in place of such information), even though the information was available in other TV programming guides before then.

News for Sunday, March 22nd, 2015

• The digital programming guide for WFGX-TV's main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel 50-1/virtual channel 35-1) from TitanTV incorrectly had "College Baseball" between 12:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. while the digital programming guides for the same channel from Comcast and TV Guide correctly had two episodes of a comedic TV program titled "The Addams Family" between 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m., a theatrical movie titled "Fireball 500" between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m., and a documentive program about traveling titled "Raw Travel" between 3:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. (the comedic TV program and the theatrical movie were provided by the national TV programming service ThisTV; the documentive program was provided by the AIM Tell-A-Vision Group through syndication).

News for Saturday, March 21st, 2015

• WKRG-TV and certain other TV stations in Alabama were set to have a new TV program about agriculture and rural lifestyles in Alabama broadcast every Sunday morning by this past January (the name of the program was "Simply Southern"; as for the time period in which WKRG-TV would usually have it broadcast, it was 6:30 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.). 

• Two news reports for WALA-TV were honored at an awards ceremony held by the Alabama Broadcasters Association on this Saturday (the report titled "Unsung: Charles Graham" was in honored with an award of merit in its "Feature" category; the report titled "Who's Watching the Constables" was honored in its "Hard News" category).

• A news presenter and a news reporter for WKRG-TV and the official World Wide Web site for WKRG-TV were also honored at the awards ceremony (the news presenter named Devon Walsh was honored in its "News Anchor" category; the news reporter named Joseph Blake (J. B.) Biunno was honored in its "News Reporter" category; the official World Wide Web site was honored in its "Website" category).

News for Friday, March 20th, 2015

• The second half of today's edition of WPMI-TV's local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") was dedicated to an exhibition of boats taking place in Orange Beach, Alabama (the second half was between 12:30 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.; the exhibition was called the Wharf and Yacht Show)

• The aspect ratio (or picture format) of the live video used in WPMI-TV's broadcasts of the exhibition differed from the aspect ratio normally used for live news reports in their local news programming by then (the aspect ratio was 4 to 3 rather than 16 to 9).

News for Thursday, March 19th, 2015

• According to the official Facebook page for the advertising agency Joseph Brown and Associates in Daphne, Alabama, the segment for this past Wednesday's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") with the radio host for WNTM-AM (710) was recorded last Friday, March 13th.  

• The Cable and Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) had a telephonic call from a person said to be from Mobile on their morning news and discussion program ("Washington Journal") this past Tuesday, March 18th (you may hear the call by setting the video player for the edition of "Washington Journal" broadcast that day to 11:19 on the official World Wide Web site for C-SPAN)

• The local TV programming guides from Zap2it, Comcast, and TV Guide for the Monday of March 30th had the words "Paid Programming" in the time period to be used for a new local news program expected to begin that day as part of WKRG-TV's regular programming plans for Monday through Friday while the guide from TitanTV had the words "Paid Program" instead of the name to be used for that program (the time period for this news program would be between 9:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.).

News for Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

• The host of a local news and discussion program for WNTM-AM (710) appeared on today's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") as a character he usually played on this news and discussion program (the name of the host was Chris Smith; the name of the character he played was Uncle Henry; as for the name of the news and discussion program he usually hosted as the character, it was "The Uncle Henry Show").

• WPMI-TV had part of a speech about the statuses of the city of Mobile, part of a speech about the status of the county of Mobile, and a speech about developments in the economies of the city and the county in general broadcast live as part of their local 12:00 p.m. news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") today (the speech about the city was delivered by its mayor, William Sandys (Sandy) Stimpson; the speech about the county was delivered by the president of its commission, Connie Hudson; as for the speech about economic developments, it was delivered by the president and chief executive officer of the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce, Bill Sisson).

News for Tuesday, March 17th, 2015

• On Monday, March 16th, a message attributed to one of the hosts for a local radio program normally broadcast by WAVH-FM (106.5) was posted onto the wall of the official Facebook page for WKRG-TV concerning a report WKRG-TV had on their local 10:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 10") that day (the name of the host was Mike Bailey; the name of the radio program was "Sip and Chew with Mike and Stu").

• A local public affairs host for WALA-TV and WGOK-AM (900)/WXQW-AM (660) appeared on today's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program for Monday through Friday ("Studio 10") to promote plans for a festival and exhibition of African culture expected to take place in Mobile this Friday, March 20th, and this Saturday, March 21st (the name of the host was Robert Battles; as for the programs he usually hosted, they were "Rise and Shine" for WALA-TV and "Pass It On" for WGOK-AM/WXQW-AM).

News for Monday, March 16th, 2015

• The official World Wide Web site for the Mobile County Public School System has guides to their local TV programming service mcpssTV. 

• Today's edition of WALA-TV's local 5:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") had a new animated sequence with the main announcer for their local news programming saying, "You're watching 'FOX 10 News'. Committed to you" after one of its commercial breaks (the name of the announcer was Greg O'Neill).  

• One of the hosts for WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") mentioned a former colleague of hers on today's edition of the program without referring to him by one of his former positions at WALA-TV (he was one of their weather reporters before retiring) or as a former employee of WALA-TV while sharing a story about him (the name of the host was Chasity Byrd; the name of the former employee was John Edd Thompson; as for what she was talking about, she was talking about a time in which he dressed in green for Halloween in order to make his self appear invisible on a TV monitor while situated between a TV camera and a chroma key screen, or green screen).

News for Sunday, March 15th, 2015

• This Sunday's edition of WALA-TV's local Sunday public affairs program ("Rise and Shine") consisted of one its regular hosts hosting a local news and discussion program for WERM-AM (1480) (the name of the host was James Gordon),

• The TV programming service operated by the Mobile County Public School System (mcpssTV) had a theatrical movie originally released in the year 1964 titled "The Last Man on Earth" in its programming on this Sunday and this past Saturday, March 14th (the service usually had such movies in its programming on Saturday and Sunday under the name "Vintage Cinema"; usually uncopyrighted movies).

News for Saturday, March 14th, 2015

• According to this past Tuesday's edition of WPMI-TV's local 6:00 p.m. news program ("Local 15 News at 6 p.m."), they were set to have members of the general public come together on the Thursday of May 7th of the current calendar year to discuss the idea of a lottery for the state of Alabama.

• According to the official Facebook page for the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, a former broadcaster who used to a local TV program for WKRG-TV between the years 1958 and 1963 died this past Monday, March 9th (the former broadcaster was a member of this hall of fame).

• The name of the former host was Donald (Don) Davis and the name of the program he hosted for WKRG-TV was "Alabama Jubilee" (you may learn more about his past through the official World Wide Web site for the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, through a site titled "Hillbilly-Music.com" and through a site titled "Alabama Live". You may learn even more about his past through a copy of a book authored by him titled "Nashville Steeler: My Life in Country Music" and through some Internet messages attributed to him on an Internet forum titled "The Steel Guitar Forum").

News for Friday, March 13th, 2015

• A link to the official Facebook page for WERM-AM (1480) was added to this weblog's list of links to other sites this past Thursday, March 12th. 

• This past Thursday's edition of WKRG-TV's local 10:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 10") had a report about various news gatherers for broadcasting companies outside the broadcast area of WKRG-TV talking about the news of the helicopter that had crashed in the waters of Santa Rosa Sound near Florida within the broadcast area of WKRG-TV this past Tuesday, March 10th.

• The weather reporter for WKRG-TV whose tone of voice was lower than usual on this past Wednesday's edition of their local morning news program on March 11th was able to use his regular tone of voice on today's edition of the program (the name of the weather reporter was John Nodar; the name of the news program was "WKRG News 5 This Morning").

• The aforementioned weather reporter was replaced by another weather reporter for WKRG-TV for this Thursday's edition of the program along with that day's edition of their local midday news program (the name of the other weather reporter was Alan Sealls; the name of the midday news program was "WKRG News 5 at Noon").

News for Thursday, March 12th, 2015

• A camera operator for WKRG-TV did a live news report by telephone about the helicopter that crashed in the waters of Santa Rosa Sound near Florida within their broadcast area this past Tuesday, March 10th, on this Wednesday's edition of their local morning news program (the name of the camera operator was Randy Lowe; the name of the news program was "WKRG News 5 This Morning").

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV (radio frequency channel 27-1/virtual channel 5-1) recently had a promotional advertisement with the regular news presenter and regular weather reporter for WKRG-TV's local morning and midday news programming (the name of the news presenter was Devon Walsh; the name of the weather reporter was John Nodar) talking about a plan for the main channel to have a local news program at 9:00 a.m. on a regular basis from Monday through Friday beginning on the Monday of March 30th (the weather reporter even said this was the "first step" in a plan to expand WKRG-TV's local news programming).

News for Wednesday, March 11th, 2015

• Between 1:00 p.m. and 3:05 p.m. today, WALA-TV, WPMI-TV, WEAR-TV, and WKRG-TV occasionally had their main broadcast channels' regular programing plans pre-empted with special programming about various live news conferences concerning a helicopter that had crashed in Santa Rosa Sound near Florida within their broadcast area.

• One of the news presenters for WALA-TV's local morning news program said "bye bye" at the end of today's edition of it with less enthusiasm than the way she usually said it at the ends of previous editions of it (the name of the news presenter was Sarah Wall; the name of the program was "FOX 10 News in the Morning") since she and the other regular news presenter for the program (Eric Reynolds) were talking about the helicopter that had crashed in Santa Rosa Sound. 

• The voice of the regular weather reporter for WKRG-TV's local morning news program and local midday news programs (the name of the weather reporter was John Nodar; the names of the programs were "WKRG News 5 This Morning" and "WKRG News 5 at Noon") was lower in tone than usual on today's edition of the morning news program (he had apologized for the tone of his voice being lower than usual on the morning news program and said he thought he would be able to speak better for it while on today's edition of it). 

• The same weather reporter was replaced for today's edition of WKRG-TV's local midday news program by the regular weather reporter for Monday through Friday editions of WKRG-TV's local 5:00 p.m.,  6:00 p.m., and 10:00 p.m. news programs (the name of the other weather reporter was Alan Sealls; the names of the other local news programs were "WKRG News 5 at 5", "WKRG News 5 at 6", and "WKRG News 5 at 10")

News for Tuesday, March 10th, 2015

• The previous report on this weblog was amended to include the name of the local public affairs program that was removed from WFNA-TV's regular programming plans recently ("Speak Up").

• Today's editions of WALA-TV's 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.") had a scrolling news ticker that usually only appeared on their local morning news program ("FOX 10 News in the Morning") before today.

• According to an administrator for the official Facebook page for WKRG-TV, the Monday of March 30th would be the first day for a new local 9:00 a.m. news program they would have in their regular programming plans for Monday through Friday.

• WKRG-TV and certain other TV stations affiliated with the national TV programming service Memorable Entertainment Television (also known as Me-TV) were set to receive episodes of two comedic TV programs titled "The Donna Reed Show" and "That Girl" through their programming feeds for the the service between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday instead of two episodes of a comedic TV program titled "The Andy Griffith Show" like other TV stations affiliated with the service due to their respective TV markets having contracts for broadcasting episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show" locally (WKRG-TV has such a contract for Mobile's TV market).
  

News for Sunday, March 8th, 2015

• WKRG-TV had three abrupt interruptions in their broadcast of today's edition of the network TV program "CBS Sunday Morning".

• The first and second interruptions each involved a series of commercial and promotional advertisements; the third one involved a paid commercial program (or "infomercial") that usually would have been broadcast for nearly 30 minutes, but was broadcast for nearly two minutes instead this time. 

• Between 11:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. today, WFNA-TV's main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel 25-1/virtual channel 55-1) had a paid commercial program instead of the local public affairs program it usually had between those times on Sunday (the program was produced by WFNA-TV's former companion station WALA-TV under the name "Speak Up" and usually broadcast by both of them on a weekly basis).

News for Saturday, March 7th, 2015

• WPMI-TV recently had a person named Lauren Sarchiapone join their news department with a position in news reporting and had some of her first few news reports in their local news programming this calendar week.

• WKRG-TV was broadcasting a paid commercial program (or infomercial) while other TV stations affiliated with the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) were broadcasting today's edition of the system's evening news program ("The CBS Evening News").

• Between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. today, WALA-TV occasionally had special local programming about the 50th anniversary of a march that took place in Selma, Alabama on today's date in the year 1965 (the march concerned civil rights) break into their regular network programming before having more continuous programming about it with occasional breaks for local commercial and promotional advertisements between 11:00 a.m. and 3:03 p.m. (the special programming included live news reports and interviews from Selma, live interviews with guests on the set of their local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10"), and video of a ceremony in Selma in which the anniversary was being commemorated live). 

News for Friday, March 6th, 2015

• The middle paragraph of the "News for Thursday, March 5th, 2015" was corrected.

• WALA-TV's broadcast channel recently had a promotional advertisement about a plan for members of their news department to provide "special coverage" of events expected to place in Selma, Alabama this Saturday, March 7th, in observance of the anniversary of a march that took place there on that date in the year 1965 concerning civil rights.

• The regular news presenters for WALA-TV's local 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m., and 9:00 p.m. news programs for Monday through Friday (the names of the news presenters were Bob Grip and Lenise Ligon; the names of the news programs were "FOX 10 News at 4:00 p.m.", "FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m., and "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") were broadcasting from Selma as part of today's editions of those programs in observance of the aforementioned anniversary while the regular news presenter for Saturday and Sunday editions of the 9:00 p.m. news program (the name of this news presenter was Renee Dials) was substituting for them at their broadcast studio in Mobile.

• One of the news presenters on today's edition of WKRG-TV's local morning news program (the name of the program was "WKRG News 5 This Morning") used one of its segments about the World Wide Web (the name of the segment was "Around the Web and Around the World") to rant about a computer he was using freezing shortly before the segment since computers such as this one were normally used for the program's segments about the World Wide Web and since one of the news items for the segments on today's edition of the program was about a person claiming the reason his personal Facebook account was suspended was due to a video recording of his self ranting about the president of the United States (Barack Obama).

News for Thursday, March 5th, 2015

• The top paragraph of the "News for Wednesday, March 4th, 2015" on this weblog was corrected. 

• WKRG-TV did not have a cooking segment on today's edition of their local midday news program ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") in accordance with its regular format by then (it usually consisted of having one cooking segment per edition Monday through Thursday). 

• The live video stream for WKRG-TV was repaired by the time of their local midday news program today after having been without any live news programming since the evening of this past Tuesday, March 3rd.

News for Wednesday, March 4th, 2015

• The regular news presenter for WKRG-TV's local midday news program and local 5:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at Noon" and "WKRG News 5 at 5") substituted for one of the regular news presenters for their local 6:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 6") today (the name of the substitute was Devon Walsh; the name of the news presenter for whom she was substituting was Rose Ann Haven). 

• The live video stream for WKRG-TV had been without any of their local news programming or any other moving images since this past Tuesday evening (on March 3rd) shortly after it had video of the governor of Alabama (Robert Bentley) speaking at the capitol building in Montgomery, Alabama (the stream would usually switch back and forward between having a blank screen and an an image with the logo for WKRG-TV with the words "We'll Be Right Back").

• The digital TV programming guide in the cable TV system for Comcast Cablevision of Mobile had the words "Paid Programming" instead of "Motown 25" in its listings for a certain program its cable TV channels for Alabama Public Television's main programming were expected to have this Thursday, March 5th (between 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.), based on the listings for it on the official World Wide Web site for Alabama Public Television (the full name of the program the channels were expected to have is "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever").  

News for Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015

• WALA-TV recently had four syndicated information programs take the place of syndicated theatrical movies in their regular Sunday programming plans for the hours between 12:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. (the names of the programs were "The Hollywood News Report", "Designing Spaces", "The Flipside with Michael Lotus", and "Robert Earl's Be My Guest").

• An administrator for the official World Wide Web site for WNSP-FM (105.5) on this Tuesday used the site to post an article about one of the hosts for one of WNSP-FM's local radio programs being given the position of director of programming for WNSP-FM and the position of editor for the site by this Tuesday (the name of the host was Randy Kennedy; the name of the program was "Afternoon Sports Drive"). 

News for Monday, March 2nd, 2015

• A recent commentary for this weblog titled "Commentary: Local TV station has incorrect reference to fictional character repeated twice" was updated. 

• A news presenter for WEAR-TV conducted interviews with four of the main actors for the TV program "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers" last Friday, February 27th. 

• This past Sunday'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 studio for their local news programming being used by a member of the Senate of the United States from Tuscaloosa, Alabama for an interview that was part of a national TV program broadcast earlier that day by the FOX News Channel under the title "Sunday Morning Futures".

Commentary: Local TV station has incorrect reference to fictional character repeated twice

• I was wondering why two news presenters for WALA-TV's local news operation referred to a fictional character played by a certain actor who died this past Friday, February 27th (the name of the actor was Leonard Nimoy; the name of the character was Mister Spock), by a name commonly used in reference to a certain medical doctor who died years earlier (the name of the doctor was Benjamin Spock; the name commonly used in reference to him was "Doctor Spock") instead of the correct name for the character while presenting reports about the death of the actor as part of WALA-TV's local news programming between that Friday and today. In case they were reading reports that had not been corrected for accuracy, I suggest that the folks in charge of the human resources department for WALA-TV make an effort have another person or another group of persons added to the staff of WALA-TV to check such reports for future editions of WALA-TV's local news programs. In case they were ad-libbing and had simply misspoke, I would forgive them for having done since many other folks had made the same mistake in the past due to the correct name for the character being similar to the name normally used for the doctor and due to the fact that no human is perfect, but I would still wish that they or one of their colleagues had quickly acknowledged their mistakes and corrected them as part of the news programs they occurred upon (update: I was glad to hear one of the news presenters for this Sunday's edition of WALA-TV's local 9:00 p.m. news program use the correct name for the character as part of a report about the funeral for the actor that day).