News for Wednesday, April 29th, 2015

• Some of the news presenters for WPMI-TV's local news department had been using their local news programming for this calendar week to constantly promote a plan by their company to host a public discussion at the Alabama School of Math and Science in Mobile next Thursday, May 7th.

• Some of the aforementioned news presenters had also been using their local news programming to promote their official World Wide Web site's link to a section of the site MyJobsDirect on a constant basis this calendar week (they usually referred to it as "Local 15 My Jobs").

• According to WKRG-TV, the decision to have their local morning news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. for Monday through Friday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") broadcast through both their main broadcast channel and the main broadcast channel for their companion station* (WFNA-TV) on a regular basis beginning with the edition broadcast on the Monday of April 20th was a permanent one since the program that usually appeared on the channel for the companion station between those hours from Monday through Friday had been cancelled on the Friday of April 17th (the name of this other program was "The Daily Buzz").

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

News for Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

• Today's edition of WALA-TV's local 5:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") had a news reporter for the Cable News Network named Polo Sandoval doing a live report from Baltimore, Maryland about some riots that had occurred there recently. 

• The main broadcast channels for WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV had different series of advertisements in between their simultaneous presentations of a local morning news program for Monday through Friday that usually only appeared on the channel for WKRG-TV before the Monday of April 20th (the name of the morning news program was "WKRG News 5 This Morning").

• WKRG-TV and WPMI-TV each had a special local news program with live video of a news conference held by relatives of two boaters found dead in the waters of Mobile Bay since last Saturday, April 25th, take precedence over a syndicated entertainment program on their main broadcast channel today between 4:02 p.m and 4:14 p.m. (the name of the syndicated program that was on the channel for WKRG-TV was "The Big Bang Theory"; the name of the one that was on the channel for WPMI-TV was "Judge Judy").

News for Monday, April 27th, 2015

• Video recordings of news presenters for WPMI-TV's local news programming giving news presentations less than a minute in length were uploaded onto the official Facebook page for WPMI-TV on a regular basis recently under the name "FacebookQuickcasts".

• The cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile had this message appear on its leased-access cable TV channel (channel 6; also known as "Port City 6"): "Due to technical issues, this channel is temporarily off-the-air. Thank You for your Patience".

• WKRG-TV and WPMI-TV each had a special news program with live video of a news conference about a mission by members of the Coast Guard of the United States to rescue boaters from the waters of Mobile Bay take precedence over a syndicated entertainment program on their main broadcast channel today between 4:04 p.m and 4:18 p.m. (the name of the entertainment program that was on the channel for WKRG-TV was "The Big Bang Theory"; the name of the one that was on the channel for WPMI-TV was "Judge Judy").

News for Sunday, April 26th, 2015

• WALA-TV had technical problems in their broadcast of a new edition of a local weekly public affairs program of theirs titled "Rise & Shine" today between 6:00 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. (the video for the edition froze for a few minutes at one point before being rebroadcast until it was interrupted by another program normally broadcast by WALA-TV on a weekly basis at 6:30 a.m. (a local religious program titled "Luke 4:18 Fellowship")).  

• WKRG-TV had a live news conference about a mission by members of the Coast Guard of the United States to rescue boaters from the waters of Mobile Bay take precedence over paid commercial programming on their main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel 47-1/virtual channel 5-1) today between 10:57 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. (their broadcast of the news conference was presented by their technological news reporter named Joseph (J. B.) Biunno).

• WPMI-TV and WEAR-TV recently had televised video advertisements about their respective World Wide Web sites having links to pages where residents of their local broadcast areas could search for new jobs or post advertisements about new jobs for other residents in those areas (both advertisements had a regular news presenter for Monday through Friday editions of their respective stations' local evening news programs; Greg Peterson for the ones produced by WPMI-TV and Bob Solarski for the ones produced by WEAR-TV).*

*Both WPMI-TV and WEAR-TV are part of the same company: the Sinclair Broadcast Group.

News for Saturday, April 25th, 2015

• According to an article on the World Wide Web site for the Radio Television Digital News Association dated this past April 23rd, WALA-TV was honored with a regional award named after a former news broadcaster named Edward Roscoe Murrow for a report they had in their local news programming last November titled "Unsung: Charles Graham". 

• This past Friday's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") and local 9:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") on April 24th had a segment in which some employees of WALA-TV were holding their own version of a type of competition normally held near the Flora-Bama Lounge, Package, & Oyster Bar in Perdido Key, Florida during the last weekend of April (the competition was usually called the Interstate Mullet Toss).

• WALA-TV had the usual broadcast time for Saturday editions of their local 9:00 news program extended for this Saturday's edition of it due to news about some unaccounted boaters in Mobile Bay and members of the Coast Guard of the United States searching for them (the program was usually broadcast from 9:01 p.m. until no later than 9:30 p.m. on Saturday; as for its broadcast for this Saturday; it was broadcast from 9:00 p.m. until 10:23 p.m.; had it not been broadcast longer than usual this Saturday, they would have had two syndicated episodes of a comedic TV program titled "Seinfeld" in their programming between 9:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. in accordance with their regular programming plan for Saturday). 

News for Friday, April 24th, 2015

• On Wednesday, April 22nd, a "time-lapse" video of the main set for WPMI-TV's local news programming being constructed was uploaded onto their official World Wide Web site in honor of the third anniversary of their first high-definition news broadcast that day.

• According to some messages attributed to an administrator for the official Facebook page for a business based in Mobile named Sign Pro, WPMI-TV and their companion station WJTC-TV (they were owned by the same company) recently got some new logo signs for the exterior of their broadcast facility in Mobile that were created by the business.

• During the last few seconds of this past Thursday's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") on April 23rd, the general manager of WALA-TV (Gary Yoder) appeared on the program from behind the news desk for their local news programming (one of the hosts for "Studio 10" (Joe Emer) said, "There he is! We got him on TV! Yes!" immediately after the general manager appeared on the program).

News for Thursday. April 23rd, 2015

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV (radio frequency channel 47-1/virtual channel 5-1) did not have any of the special news programming that its regular provider of network programming was providing between 9:15 a.m. and 9:22 a.m. today (the name of the provider was the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)).

• The main broadcast channels for WPMI-TV (radio frequency/virtual channel 15-1) and WEAR-TV (radio frequency channel 17-1/virtual channel 3-1) had special news programming from their regular providers of network programming (the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) respectively) at the time of the special news programming from the one for the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV.

• The news presenter on the local 9:00 a.m. news program WKRG-TV had on their main broadcast channel at the time of all the aforementioned special news programming mentioned some of the news all of them had (the name of the news presenter was Devon Walsh; the name of the local news program was "WKRG News 5 at 9"). 

News for Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015

• Earlier this Wednesday, the official Facebook page for WKRG-TV got a new profile picture that was created in honor of the 60th anniversary of WKRG-TV's first regular broadcast later this calendar year (on the Saturday of September 5th).  

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News for Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

 (note from the author: the report titled "News for Monday, April 20th, 2015" was amended with references to the relationship between WKRG-TV and WFNA-TV)

• WKRG-TV had a telethon for the Boys & Girls Clubs of South Alabama in their local news programming today along with some special reports about the clubs. 

• Earlier today, the cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile began providing programming from a digital sub-channel for WKRG-TV that was normally used for broadcasting weather information, including a weather radar and audio from NOAA Weather Radio . 

• A national news reporter referred to WKRG-TV by their brand name in a report about the 50th awards ceremony for the Country Music Association that was part of WKRG-TV's local 10:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 10") this past Sunday, April 19th (the reporter said, "Suzanne Marques in Arlington, Texas for News 5" at the end of the report). 

News for Monday, April 20th, 2015

• The main broadcast channel for WFNA-TV* had a new edition of a local news program that usually only appeared on the main broadcast channel for their companion station** WKRG-TV*** between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday instead of a new edition of a nationally-syndicated news program that it usually had at the same time as the local one from Monday through Friday as part of its programming today (the name of the local program was "WKRG News 5 This Morning"; the name of the syndicated one was "The Daily Buzz"). 

• According to a news article published on the official World Wide Web site for the Orlando Sentinel last Friday, April 17th, the reason the main broadcast channel for WFNA-TV had the local news program referenced in the previous paragraph instead of the syndicated one referenced in that paragraph also was due to the syndicated program being cancelled by the day the article was published. 

(*radio frequency channel 25-1/virtual channel 55-1)
(**both stations were owned by the same company and operated from the same building in Mobile)
(***radio frequency channel 47-1/virtual channel 5-1)

News for Sunday, April 19th, 2015

• WEAR-TV's streams of programming disappeared from their broadcast channels between 8:00 a.m. and 8:05 a.m. today before reappearing sometime between 8:45 a.m. and 9:44 a.m. later that day.

• An image from the last program broadcast on WEAR-TV's main broadcast channel before the disappearance of its stream of programming today froze on Comcast Cablevision of Mobile's standard-definition cable TV channel for providing a standard-definition version of this stream of programming (the name of the program was "This Week", a national network news and discussion program from the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)). 

• The news presenter for this past Saturday's edition of WPMI-TV's local 5:00 p.m. news program ("Local 15 News at 5:00 p.m.") on April 18th referred to WBMA-LD in Birmingham, Alabama as "33/40" as rather than their proper brand name ("ABC 33/40") after presenting a report attributed to them in that edition of the program (the name of the news presenter was James Gordon).

News for Saturday, April 18th, 2015

• A survey of radio music for the former radio station WABB-FM dated (Monday) September 16th, 1974, was listed for sale on the the World Wide Web site eBay.

• WKRG-TV was set to have a telethon for the Boys & Girls Clubs of South Alabama next Tuesday, April 21st, between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. 

• Audio dropouts had been occurring in Comcast Cablevision of Mobile's retransmissions of WKRG-TV's network programming feeds on a constant basis over the course of this April.

News for Friday, April 17th, 2015

(note from the author: the first paragraph of the report titled "News for Thursday, April 16th, 2015" was edited for clarity)

• WKRG-TV had live video from a "selfie stick" on today's edition of the local news program they usually had in their programming between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday as part of its segments about the World Wide Web (the program was titled "WKRG News 5 This Morning"; the segments were titled "Around the Web and Around the World").

• The news presenter on today's edition of the aforementioned news program told its audience she had purchased the "selfie stick" as a joke before admitting to having fun with it on today's edition of the program (the name of the news presenter was Avery Cotton).

• WKRG-TV had episodes of the comedic TV program titled "Mayberry R. F. D." between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. and episodes of "The Donna Reed Show", and "That Girl" between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. in their programming for the first time in a week between this past Wednesday evening (April 15th) and this Friday as part of their digital sub-channel* for broadcasting programs from the national TV programming service Memorable Entertainment Television (the channel usually had episodes of the programs during those time periods from Monday through Friday before last Thursday (April 10th); as for what it had during those time periods last Thursday and Friday (April 10th) and this past Monday (April 13th) and Tuesday (April 14th), they had episodes of another comedic TV program titled "The Andy Griffith Show").

(*radio frequency channel 47-3/virtual channel 5-3)

News for Thursday, April 16th, 2015

• A former news reporter for WKRN-TV in Nashville, Tennessee named Bethany Anderson recently became a news reporter for WPMI-TV (you may learn more about her life and career from her profiles on LinkedIn and part of an archived version of the official World Wide Web site for WKRN-TV). 

• According to the official World Wide Web site for the Federal Communications Commission, a set of call letters similar to the one for the Alabama Public Radio station licensed to serve Mobile (WHIL-FM) was reserved for a church in Ringville, Massachusetts on the Wednesday of last September 10th, except it had the suffix "-LP" rather than "-FM". 

• A graphic with the phrases "Weather Alert Day" and "Be Aware" occasionally appeared in WKRG-TV's local news programming between this past Wednesday, April 15th, and today before reports about rain predicted for their local broadcast area while flood warnings were in affect for parts of the area.

• Some of the presenters in WKRG-TV's local news programming between this past Wednesday and today said the phrase "Weather Alert Day" on a frequent basis due to the aforementioned reports about rain predicted for their local broadcast area (one of the presenters in the programming constantly said what he and other presenters for WKRG-TV meant by the phrase "Weather Alert Day" He even said that he did not want to alarm anyone with it (his name was John Nodar).

News for Wednesday, April 15th, 2015

• According to the official Facebook page for Alabama Public Radio, they had technical problems in their radio network this past Friday, April 10th, and this past Tuesday, April 14th (the first set of problems affected all of their network stations; the second set of problems affected only one of the stations: WHIL-FM (91.3) in Mobile's radio market)

• One of the regular news presenters for the local morning news program titled "WKRG News 5 This Morning" used today's edition of the program to talk about a news report involving a cousin of hers she had found on the World Wide Web site for the New York Daily News as part of its segments about the World Wide Web titled "Around the Web and Around the World" (the name of the news presenter was Avery Cotton; the name of the cousin was Leslie Shannon).

• The regular news presenter for WPMI-TV's local morning and midday news programs (her name was Kelly Jones; the names of the programs were "Local 15 Today" and "Local 15 News at Noon" respectively) laughed at a group of people in a video recording of a past Hangout Music Festival on today's edition of the midday news program while a colleague of hers (named Taren Reed) presented a report about guests scheduled to appear at a future Hangout Music Festival expected to take place this May before explaining her laughter (she had recalled the video being featured on the local morning news program and the group being called "the three amigos" on the program). 

News for Monday, April 13th, 2015

• The main announcer for promoting syndicated programs for WPMI-TV and WJTC-TV and the one for promoting their local news programs have their own personal sites on the World Wide Web (the name of the announcer for the syndicated programs was Jerry Thompson; the name of the one for the local news programs was Steve Mapel).

• On Sunday, April 12th, one of the news presenters on WALA-TV's local 9:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") presented a report about her accepting an award from the National Constables and Marshals Association for a report she did for WALA-TV titled "Who's Watching the Constables" (the name of the news presenter was Renee Dials).

• WKRG-TV had an obsolete promotional advertisement for the national TV programming service Memorable Entertainment Television (Me-TV) appear on their main broadcast channel* on a regular basis recently (the advertisement had mentions and video clips of a program no longer part of Me-TV's programming plans for Monday through Friday; "The Adventures of Superman").

(*radio frequency channel 47-1/virtual channel 5-1)

News for Sunday, April 12th, 2015

• On Saturday, April 11th, WALA-TV had a news report from outside of their news department broadcast without any references to the person who provided its narration or to the company from which it came (according to WALA-TV, the company from which it came was the Cable News Network (CNN)). 

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News for Saturday, April 11th, 2015

• The Internet video service Dailymotion has video recordings of an edition of a TV game show titled "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" in which Mobile had a significant role in its format (you may access video of the first half of the edition through this link and video of its second half through this link). 

• According to the TV programming guides for WPMI-TV from Zap2it, TitanTV, and TV Guide, WPMI-TV was set to have a new TV program titled "Beyond A. D." appear on their main broadcast channel* between 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. on a weekly basis beginning this Saturday, April 11th (WPMI-TV usually had either an episode of "Two and a Half Men" or a paid commercial program in this time period on Saturday during the past year). 

• WKRG-TV had their local 6:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 6:00") take precedence over about half of a nationally-syndicated TV program titled "Today's Homeowner with Danny Lipford" on their main broadcast channel** today due to some golf programming they had on the channel earlier today causing the broadcast time for the news program to be moved ahead by about 17 minutes (the golf programming was provided by their main provider of network programming, the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)). 

(*radio frequency/virtual channel 15-1)
(**radio frequency channel 47-1/virtual channel 5-1)

News for Friday, April 10th, 2015

(note from the author: the words "of" and "the" were added to the my previous report for this weblog between the words "episodes" and "comedic" after realizing I had omitted them by mistake while editing it yesterday) 

• A news reporter for WALA-TV substituted for one of the regular news presenters for their local morning news program ("FOX 10 News in the Morning") today (the name of the news reporter was Candace Murphy; the name of the news presenter for whom she had substituted was Sarah Wall). 

• WKRG-TV had two episodes of the comedic TV program titled "The Andy Griffith Show" on their digital sub-channel* for broadcasting programs from the national TV programming service Memorable Entertainment Television (Me-TV) instead of episodes of the ones titled "The Donna Reed Show" and "That Girl" between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. today in spite of the guide to their programming feed for the service having "The Donna Reed Show" and "That Girl" listed in that time period for today (WKRG-TV usually had episodes of "The Donna Reed Show" and "That Girl" on their programming feed from Me-TV while certain other TV stations affiliated with Me-TV had two episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show" during the aforementioned time period from Monday through Friday due to their right to have the program broadcast locally unlike those other stations). 

(*radio frequency channel 47-3/virtual channel 5-3)

News for Thursday, April 9th, 2015

• WKRG-TV had two episodes of the comedic TV program titled "The Andy Griffith Show" on their digital sub-channel* for broadcasting programs from the national TV programming service Memorable Entertainment Television (Me-TV) instead of two episodes of the one titled "Mayberry R. F. D." between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. today in spite of the guide to their programming feed for the service having "Mayberry R. F. D." listed in that time period for today (WKRG-TV usually had two episodes of "Mayberry R. F. D." on their programming feed from Me-TV while certain other TV stations affiliated with Me-TV had two episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show" during the aforementioned time period from Monday through Friday due to their right to have the program broadcast locally unlike those other stations). 

(*radio frequency channel 47-3/virtual channel 5-3)

Commentary: An unusual anniversary acknowledgement

• I was wondering why this past Wednesday's edition of WALA-TV's local 5:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.) had a report about the date of its broadcast (April 8th) being the 41st anniversary of the 715th home run of a professional baseball player from Mobile named Henry (Hank) Aaron since it seemed very odd for them to have it after the 40th anniversary and the big celebrations they and other local TV stations had around that time and since they did not always have reports about its anniversary without any mention of big celebratory plans (I would have not allowed for that report to be broadcast for both of the reasons I had mentioned and the fact that it was not really news). 

News for Tuesday, April 7th, 2015

• Last Friday, April 3rd, the Mobile Press-Register's newspapers for that day had an obituary for a former weather reporter and feature reporter for WKRG-TV named Jere Hough (you may access an electronic version of the obituary on the World Wide Web site Alabama Live).

• WKRG-TV's most recent weather reporter for weekend editions of their local 5:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. news programs substituted for the regular weather reporter for their local morning and midday news programs for Monday through Friday both today and this past Monday, April 6th (the name of the substitute was Jonathan Owens; as for the name of the reporter for whom he was substituting, it was John Nodar). 

News for Monday, April 6th, 2015

• A news reporter for WKRG-TV was referenced by a nickname through superimposed computer graphics on this past Sunday's edition of their local 5:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 5") while appearing on the program that day (she was usually referenced by her proper name (Jacqueline Quynh rather than Jackie Quynh) through graphics like those in their local news programming before then).

• One of the regular news presenters for the first local morning news program WKRG-TV would usually have in their programming from Monday through Friday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") substituted for their other local morning news program for Monday through Friday ("WKRG News 5 at 9") today. (the name of the substitute was Avery Cotton; the name of the person she had substituted for was Devon Walsh).

• The reporter mentioned in the first paragraph was wearing short pants as part of her appearance on the edition of the local news program described in that paragraph (she and other members of WKRG-TV usually did not appear in short pants in their local news programming before then). 

News for Sunday, April 5th, 2015

• WALA-TV was set to have a local public affairs program titled "Rise and Shine" appear on their broadcast channel (radio frequency channel 9-1/virtual channel 10-1) between 6:00 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. today instead of a paid commercial program (the channel usually had the public affairs program between 5:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. on a weekly basis before then). 

• WEAR-TV had a local 5:00 p.m. news program ("Channel 3 News at Five") take precedence over a network news program ("World News Tonight") from their main provider of network programming (the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)) on their main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel 18-1/virtual channel 3-1) today between 5:30 p.m. and 5:41 p.m. due to some of the provider's basketball programming for that day causing the local news program to begin a few minutes after its regular start time (5:00 p.m.). 

• WKRG-TV had the second half of a new edition of a network news program titled "Face the Nation" appear on their their main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel 47-1/virtual channel 5-1) without delay for the first time since the year 2012 today between 10:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. (the channel usually had either paid commercial programming or other network programming from the main provider of WKRG-TV's network programming (the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)) during that time period on Sunday before then; as for when the channel usually had the second halves of the news program before then; it usually had them on Monday between 2:05 a.m. and 2:35 a.m.)

News for Saturday, April 4th, 2015

• Between the middle of this past March and this past Friday, April 3rd, WPMI-TV had images of various children playing baseball broadcast on a regular basis as part of their local morning news program (the name of the program was "Local 15 Today"). 

• WPMI-TV usually had a paid commercial program and a syndicated episode of the comedic TV program titled "Two and a Half Men" appear side by side through their main broadcast channel (radio frequency/virtual channel 15-1) on Saturday between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. until this Saturday, when it had two episodes of "Two and a Half Men" between those times just like the time it usually did until sometime during the previous calendar year (2014).

• Between this past Friday and this Saturday, some of the news presenters in WPMI-TV's local news programming used a report about a new network TV program expected to be part of their main broadcast channel's programming this Sunday, April 5th (between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.), as a tool for promoting a special report expected to be part of the channel's programming later that day during their local 10:00 p.m. news program (the name of the new network program was "A. D.: The Bible Continues"; the name of the news program was "Local 15 News at 10:00 p.m.").

Commentary: A cliched (overused) phrase in sports reporting

• I wish the sports presenters in recent editions of WKRG-TV, WALA-TV, and WPMI-TV's local news programs had not used the phrase "kicked off the team" in reference to a person being removed from the football team for the University of Alabama recently. If I were either one of those sports presenters, I would have simply said the person was removed from the team rather than say he was kicked off the team; it would have been more professional and clear and not perceived as either offensive, cliched, or vague to many listeners of their respective stations' local news programs.

News for Thursday, April 2nd, 2015

• An administrator for the official Facebook page for WKRG-TV posted a graphic with false information about their broadcast operation onto the page this past Wednesday, April 1st, in honor of April Fools' Day (the graphic and the reason for its existence were mentioned on their local morning news program titled "WKRG News 5 This Morning" by one of its regular news presenters that day.

• Today's edition of WKRG-TV's local 9:00 a.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 9") had a segment about home improvement with one of the weather reporters for their local news programming and the host of a nationally-syndicated TV program produced in Mobile titled "Today's Homeowner" (the name of the weather reporter was John Nodar; the name of the host for the syndicated TV program was Danny Lipford).

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV (radio frequency/virtual channel 15-1) did not have all of the special network news programming that their main provider of network programming (the National Broadcasting Company, also known as NBC) was providing between 12:30 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. or any of the special news programming they had provided between 1:20 p.m. and 1:50 p.m. today (the channel had a local news program titled "Local 15 News at Noon" by the time it had the special programming between segments of it between 12:50 p.m. and 12:55 p.m. and an episode of the network program "Days of Our Lives" during the other special programming).

News for Wednesday, April 1st, 2015

• WALA-TV had a digital countdown clock occasionally appear on their local 5:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") this past Tuesday, March 31st, for displaying the remaining time for a tax referendum held in Baldwin County, Alabama, that day.

• Today's edition of WKRG-TV's local 6:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 6") had a video recording of their local news programming from the year 2001 about a tax referendum held in Mobile County that year as part of a report about the tax referendum held in Baldwin County, Alabama this past Tuesday. 

• WKRG-TV had a "Marketplace 5" segment (it was about a business in their local broadcast area) appear on their main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel 47-1/virtual channel 5-1) immediately after the last segment for their new local 9:00 a.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 9") this past Tuesday between 9:25 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. (they occasionally had such a segment appear immediately after the end of their local midday news program ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") before they had this new local news program).

News for Tuesday, March 31st, 2015

• This past Tuesday's edition of WPMI-TV's local 5:00 p.m. news program ("Local 15 News at 5:00 p.m.") on March 31st had a report about a local radio announcer for WBLX-FM (92.9) named Ariel Thomas (she was identified by her professional name in the report: "Arielle Monae")

• This past Monday's edition of WPMI-TV's local 5:00 p.m. news program on March 30th had a video recording of their local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") from that day with a visual quality that was lower than the usual visual quality for live versions of segments of their local news programming. 

• The first edition of the new syndicated game show that WFGX-TV had in their programming this past Sunday, March 29th (between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.), was not broadcast by the Game Show Network today between 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. or 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. due to their plan for broadcasting it today being cancelled (the name of the program was "Monopoly Millionaires' Club").

• WJTC-TV's main broadcast channel (radio frequency channel 45-1/virtual channel 44-1) was set to have two editions of the syndicated courtroom program titled "Divorce Court" between 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. on a regular basis from Monday through Friday beginning with the editions it had during that time period this past Monday instead of one edition of the syndicated variety program titled "The Queen Latifah Show" while still being set to have one edition of "Divorce Court" between 1:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. and one edition of "The Queen Latifah Show" between 2:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. on a regular basis from Monday through Friday.