News for Tuesday, June 30th, 2015

• WALA-TV had less local news programming this past Sunday than on previous Sundays in recent times due to their having a special local program about tropical cyclones ("Storm Ready 2015") take precedence over half their regular time period for having such programming on Sunday (it was usually from 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., unless special network programming were to cause them to have it later over the course of one hour). 

• According to WKRG-TV, one of their weather reporters (Alan Sealls) and two of their news reporters (Allen Carter and Joseph Blake (J. B.) Biunno) were honored at an awards luncheon held in Birmingham, Alabama, by the Alabama Associated Press this past Saturday, June 27th  (the weather reporter named Alan Sealls was honored with a "Best Documentary" award for a special local TV program broadcast by WKRG-TV in the year 2014 titled "Hurricane Ivan's Impact on the Gulf Coast", the news reporter named Allen Carter was honored with a "Best Sports Feature" award for a report he did for WKRG-TV in the year 2014 about a professional football player and former resident of Theodore, Alabama (southwest of Mobile) named Clinton (C. J.) Mosley Jr., and the one named Joseph Blake Biunno was honored with a "Best Specialized Reporter" award).

• A news presenter and news reporter for WKRG-TV made some comments about the weather reporter and news reporters mentioned in the previous paragraph of this report while presenting details about their being honored at the awards luncheon mentioned in that paragraph as part of this Sunday's edition of their local news program for Sunday mornings ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Sunday") on June 28th (the name of the news presenter was Chad Petri; as for his comments, he said, "Yay, Alan is here is here to celebrate" in reference to the weather reporter named Alan Sealls, "Another 'Al-len' " in reference to the news reporter named Allen Carter (he had pronounced both names "Al-len"), and, "The guy who looks like me, the amazing J. B. Biunno" in reference to Joseph Blake Biunno before saying, "Kudos to all those guys" in reference to all of them.

News for Monday, June 29th, 2015 (amended)

• Some of the news presenters for WPMI-TV's local news operation had used the phrase "our affiliate in Montgomery" while presenting a report about the chief judge of the Supreme Court of Alabama (Roy Moore) without identifying the affiliate or specifying the "Montgomery" referenced as part of their local news programming between today and this past Sunday, June 28th. 

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV recently had an old promotional advertisement for their local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") in which one of the regular news presenters for the program (Kelly Jones) mentioned the time that was usually normally used to start the program in recent times (it usually began at 4:30 a.m. from Monday through Friday before the Monday of this past June 8th). 

(amendment note: a link was added to the first paragraph of this report)

News for Sunday, June 28th, 2015

• An animated introductory sequence for the most recent weather reporter hired for the weather department at WKRG-TV (the name of the reporter was Melissa Constanzer) did not have music like the ones for their other weather reporters when it was broadcast on their local morning news programs for Saturday and Sunday both this past Saturday, June 27th, and this Sunday, June 28th (its only audio was that of its announcer (Jay Gardner) saying, "And now Melissa Constanzer with your First Alert Weather").  

• The host of a local Sunday public affairs program for WGOK-AM titled "Pass it On" (the name of the host was Robert Battles) used the beginning of this Sunday's edition of it to make an "editorial comment" about a news report for WKRG-TV with parts of an interview conducted with him to clarify a part of the interview in which he said he did not "give a damn" about a type of flag based on various flags issued during the War Between the States with a design originally used for a flag for a group of soldiers from Virginia to display in battles.   

• According to a weather reporter for WALA-TV on their local 9:00 p.m. news program this past Saturday, June 27th ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m."), the person who presented the news for the program that day was in the position of doing so for the very first time for that program or any of their local news programs since she was usually only a news reporter for their local news programming by then (the weather reporter was complimenting her on her news presentations for the local 9:00 p.m. news program this past Saturday when they appeared together for its final segment that day; as for their names, Matt Barrentine was the name of the weather reporter while Rebekah Hoeger was the name of the news reporter/news presenter).

News for Saturday, June 27th, 2015

• A former apprentice for the news department at WFTV-TV in Orlando, Florida recently became a news reporter for the one at WALA-TV (her name was Devan Cofforo).  

• The most recent weather reporter hired for the weather department of WKRG-TV was introduced for the first time in their programming today as part of their local news program for Saturday mornings (the name of the weather reporter was Melissa Constanzer; the name of the news program was "WKRG News 5 This Morning: Saturday").

• This past Friday's (June 26th) edition of WALA-TV's local 5:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") was only available through their live video stream and shorter than most of its previous editions (it was only broadcast during the second half of its regular broadcast time period for Monday through Friday (it was usually 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. by then) due to special network programming from the FOX Broadcasting Company about a series of soccer matches lasting longer than expected in their broadcast plans for that day.

News for Friday, June 26th, 2015

 (correction note: the job title for a member of WPMI-TV named Tom Russo was corrected in the previous report for this weblog)

• One of the news presenters for today's edition of WKRG-TV's local morning news program for Monday through Friday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") said he (Bill Riales) and its other news presenter (Avery Cotton) had "technical problems" hearing the hosts for a regular feature of the program before presenting information the hosts would have presented for the feature if not for these "problems" (the name of the feature was "The Weekend Buzz"; the names of the hosts who would have presented the information were a couple of radio announcers for WKSJ-FM named Dan Brennan and Shelby Mitchell; as for what type of information they would have presented, it was about public events expected to take place between today and this Sunday, June 28th, in the local broadcast area for WKRG-TV)

• One of the news presenters for today's edition of the local news program mentioned in the first paragraph of this report (the news presenter named Avery Cotton) said, "Hey, that's my dad!" as part of the feature of the program mentioned in that paragraph when an image of the person she said was her "dad" holding a fish was displayed with information about plans for a fishing rodeo near Perdido Key, Florida as part of the feature (the other news presenter for the program named Bill Riales said, "Get out there and have fun with Avery's dad" after presenting the information). 

• Today's edition of WKRG-TV's local 9:00 a.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 9") was shorter than most of its previous editions due to their having special network news programming from the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) take precedence over it in their main broadcast channel's programming for about 13 minutes (from 9:01 a.m. to 9:14 a.m.) in the time period in which it was usually broadcast from Monday through Friday (9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.). 

News for Thursday, June 25th, 2015 (corrected)

• A new historical article was added to this weblog today: "Television History of a National Scholarship Program Based in Mobile, Alabama"

• A producer for the local news department at WPMI-TV named Jerry Shannon substituted for their assignment manager (named Tom Russo) on today's edition of their local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") in a segment about news stories being planned for their other local news programs  today (the assignment editor usually appeared in a segment like this one on a regular basis for the midday news program).

(correction note: the job title for Tom Russo was corrected) 

News for Wednesday, June 24th, 2015

• The news presenters for the special local news programming WALA-TV had on their main broadcast channel between 9:57 p.m. and 10:57 p.m.* this past Sunday, June 21st, were usually part of their regular local news programming from Monday through Friday before then in recent times (their names were Eric Reynolds and Lenise Ligon). 

• Some of the news presenters for WPMI-TV's local news operation had used some of their local news programming for this calendar week to tell their audiences they could use their official World Wide Web site to watch a public meeting hosted by a "sister station" of theirs (WJLA-TV in the District of Columbia) about various topics concerning the United States in general today between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. and partake in the meeting through the Internet messaging service Twitter with messages tagged "#YourVoiceYourFuture". 

(*the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had special network programming from the FOX Broadcasting Company about a golf tournament (the United States Open Tournament) during the time period in which they usually local news programming on Sunday: 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.)

News for Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015

• This past Monday's edition of WPMI-TV's local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") had a beginning of a live contest involving contestants for a national scholarship program based in Mobile eating raw oysters (the name of the scholarship program was Distinguished Young Women).

• A weather reporter for WKRG-TV on this past Monday's edition of their local 6:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 6") told its audience about lightning striking their broadcast facility in Mobile during its broadcast (the program had audio and video problems shortly after the time he said the strike occurred ("15 minutes earlier"); as for his name, it was Alan Sealls). 

• One of the images for the "Meet Our Team" section of the official World Wide Web site for WALA-TV (it featured a news presenter for their local news programming named Lenise Ligon) had been replaced by one that was more similar to its other images (the image that was replaced had a setting and a length that differed significantly from those of the other images). 

News for Monday, June 22nd, 2015

• The names for the local news programs the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV was set to have on Saturday and Sunday mornings on a regular basis beginning with the ones it had this past Saturday (June 20th) and Sunday (June 21st) were "WKRG News 5 This Morning: Saturday" and "WKRG News 5 This Morning: Sunday". 

• The news presenter for the first editions of WKRG-TV's local morning news programs for Saturday and Sunday usually did news reporting for their other local news programs before then and had only occasionally presented news for some of those other local news programs before then (his name was Chad Petri). 

• The weather reporter for the first editions of WKRG-TV's local morning news programs for Saturday and Sunday usually did so during the local news programs usually had in their programming on Saturday and Sunday evenings in recent times (his name was Jonathan Owens). 

Commentary: Too much local news programming for one local TV station

I wish someone involved in the management of WKRG-TV had not decided upon having more of their main broadcast channel's regular weekly programming schedule dedicated to local news programming such as the programming they had this Sunday morning and this past Saturday morning (June 20th), because I doubt many folks would want to watch and/or hear such programming so early on any Saturday or Sunday, especially on a regular basis (the news presenter for the local news programming they had this morning and this past Saturday morning sounded doubtful about anyone watching it when he said, "I don't know who's watching but I'm glad you are at least" at the beginning of the programming for this morning; he even said something like that at the beginning of the programming this past Saturday). I'm sure many of those folks (along with some members of WKRG-TV) would rather rest and/or watch other TV programs they were probably unable to see and/or hear from Monday through Friday due to their jobs and would rather watch local news programming later on Saturday and Sunday when the programming would most likely have new and up-to-date information (it would most likely have no errors, too).

If I were in charge of WKRG-TV (or any other TV station with a news department in the Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida TV market) and had heard or read about some folks wanting more local news programming from us, I would have proposed that we get  a new digital sub-channel for rebroadcasting previous editions of local news programs originally broadcast on our main broadcast channel and for broadcasting special news programming about certain situations such as emergencies (it would be like a televised version of the live video stream on the official World Wide Web site for WKRG-TV). This would have left more time in the main broadcast channel's regular weekly programming schedule for other types of programs besides news programs.

News for Saturday, June 20th, 2015

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had local news programming during a time period in which it usually did not have local news programming on Saturday before then (it usually had a paid commercial program (or "infomercial") and a local TV program titled "SouthFitTV" during that time period) in accordance with their plan to have local news programming on Saturday and Sunday mornings on a regular basis beginning with this Saturday, June 20th (5:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.), and this Sunday, June 21st (6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.). 

• According to an administrator for the official Facebook page for WKRG-TV, a new weather reporter for WKRG-TV named Melissa Constanzer was to set to join their local news programming next Saturday morning (June 27th).   

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV was set to have two network TV programs that were usually part of its Sunday programming today instead (between 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.; the channel usually had paid commercial programming during this time period on Saturday before then) due to their plan to have local news programming in their former weekly time periods (7:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. for the program titled "All in with Laila Ali" and 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. for the one titled "Game Changers with Kevin Frazier") on a regular basis beginning this Sunday (the programs were part of a programming block titled "CBS Dream Team"; WKRG-TV usually had the first four programs of the block on their main broadcast channel on Saturday between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. before having the two programs mentioned earlier later the next day).

News for Friday, June 19th, 2015

• The video feeds on the digital sub-channels for the Alabama Public Television station licensed to serve Mobile (WEIQ-TV) had been vertically manipulated by today.

• According to WKRG-TV, their main broadcast channel was set to have local news programming on Saturday and Sunday mornings on a regular basis beginning this Saturday, June 20th (from 5:00 a.m. until 6:00 a.m.), and this Sunday, June 21st (from 6:00 a.m. until 8:00 a.m.).

• The official World Wide Web sites for WPMI-TV and WEAR-TV recently got new videos players for playing live video streams of new editions of their local TV news programs (it differed from the video players they had replaced by allowing their users to pause live local news programs and return to earlier portions of them). 

News for Thursday, June 18th, 2015

• Between 5:00 a.m. and 5:05 a.m. today, the local morning news programs for WALA-TV ("FOX 10 News in the Morning"), WPMI-TV ("Local 15 Today"), and WEAR-TV ("3 in the Morning") each had video of a live news conference about police searching for a person suspected of shooting nine other persons to death at a church in Charleston, South Carolina this past Wednesday, June 17th. 

• Today's edition of the local morning news program that WKRG-TV and their companion station (WFNA-TV) usually had on their main broadcast channels between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. from Monday through Friday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") did not begin until 5:04 a.m. due to their having special network programming from the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) about the news conference mentioned in the first paragraph of this report. 

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV's companion station (WFNA-TV) did not have the beginning of today's edition of the local morning news program mentioned in the second paragraph of this report like the one for WKRG-TV after the special report mentioned in the first two paragraphs of this report until 5:07 a.m. (the channel for WFNA-TV had videos of promotional advertisements for different network TV programs from the CW Television Network before having today's edition of the local morning news program).

News for Wednesday, June 17th, 2015

• The account executive and community liaison for Alabama Public Radio (Barbara Charnetski) used this past Tuesday's edition of WPMI-TV's local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") on June 16th and today's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") to promote plans for an event that would involve Alabama Public Radio and the Fairhope Brewing Company in Fairhope, Alabama (she had promoted the plans for another local TV program before the others this past Monday, June 15th). 

• A weather reporter for WKRG-TV mistakenly referred to a video game character known as Kirby as having been part of the Mario series of video games while discussing a creature that reminded him of the character called a "flapjack octopus" on the local news program they had on their main broadcast channel and that of their companion station (WFNA-TV) between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. today (the name of the weather reporter was John Nodar; the name of the news program was "WKRG News 5 This Morning").

• The account executive and community liaison mentioned in the first paragraph of this report mistakenly said Alabama Public Radio was the only source for National Public Radio programming, classical music, and certain other programs she had only described as "great" along with the words "in the area" while promoting plans for an event expected to involve Alabama Public Radio and the Fairhope Brewing Company on today's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") since residents of the broadcast area for WALA-TV may receive such programming from two other radio stations similar to the one for Alabama Public Radio in the same area through FM and HD Radio receivers (the name of the Alabama Public Radio station was WHIL-FM; the names of the other stations were WMAH-FM and WUWF-FM).

News for Tuesday, June 16th, 2015

• The regular news presenter for WPMI-TV's local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") referred to a colleague of hers about to do a live report for today's edition of the program by both a nickname and a proper name while introducing her on the program (the name of the news presenter was Kelly Jones; the nickname given to the colleague was "Sarch"; the proper name given to the colleague was Lauren Sarchiapone).

• The logo for WEAR-TV that usually appeared near the top-left corners of their official World Wide Web site and official Twitter page by this June was replaced by a new version of it recently: it had a seagull, the number 3 (for WEAR-TV's original broadcast channel number), the letters "WEAR", and a logo for WEAR-TV's main provider of network programming (the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)) just like the old one (the old version still appeared on the official Facebook page for WEAR-TV for identification purposes and on their main broadcast channel as part of their local news programming afterwards)

• One of the pictures in the "Meet Our Team" section of the official World Wide Web site for WALA-TV (the team included news presenters and news reporters for their local news programming) was replaced by one that differed from all of the others (the picture that was replaced was still part of the profile of the person to which the new picture was linked, though) : it had a white background while the others each had colorful backgrounds consisting of parts of the set for WALA-TV's local news programs; its length was significantly greater than the lengths of the others; and its person (a news presenter named Lenise Ligon) appeared more prominent than the persons in all of the other pictures since she was the only one without sleeves and her waist was the only one visible. 

(correction note: the second paragraph of the previous report for this weblog ("News for Monday, June 15th, 2015") originally had the word "an" at the beginning instead of the word "the" before being replaced by it to reflect the fact that Barbara Charnetski of Alabama Public Radio was the only account executive and community liaison for Alabama Public Radio at the time of her appearance in a recent local news segment for WKRG-TV)

News for Monday, June 15th, 2015 (corrected)

• A news reporter for WKRG-TV referred to the Supreme Court of the United States by the acronym "SCOTUS" while doing a live report about them on a local news program for WKRG-TV between 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. today (the name of the reporter was Chad Petri; the name of the news program was "WKRG News 5 This Morning").

• The account executive and community liaison for Alabama Public Radio (Barbara Charnetski) appeared in a local news segment WKRG-TV had on their main broadcast channel between 8:25 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. today during one of its breaks from a national network news program titled "CBS This Morning" to promote plans for an event that would involve Alabama Public Radio and the Fairhope Brewing Company in Fairhope, Alabama (the person who interviewed her (John Nodar of WKRG-TV) mentioned the Alabama Public Radio station licensed to serve Mobile during the interview: WHIL-FM). 

• A weather reporter for WKRG-TV (John Nodar) used a segment of today's edition of their local 9:00 a.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 9") for displaying various items found on the World Wide Web ("Around the Web and Around the World) to comment about an aerospace exhibition (the 51st Paris Air Show) involving representatives of the government of the city of Mobile while introducing a video recording from a company represented at the exhibition that was found on the World Wide Web (this is what he said: "...the Paris Airshow: we're out there promoting Airbus in a big way because we're all pro-Airbus--well, this is from--well, the bad guys. This is from Boeing: a rehearsal of their air show".)

(correction note: the second paragraph originally had the word "an" at the beginning instead of the word "the" before being replaced by it to reflect the fact that Barbara Charnetski was the only account executive and community liaison for Alabama Public Radio at the time of her appearance on the local news segment for WKRG-TV)

News for Sunday, June 14th, 2015

• The third paragraph of this weblog's report for this past Friday, June 12th ("News for Friday, June 12th, 2015"), was amended with the name of a syndicated TV courtroom program that was not identified in its previous version.

• The main broadcast channel for WJTC-TV did not have a special nationally-syndicated TV program from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) at the same time as the main broadcast channel for WEAR-TV this past Saturday, June 13th, in accordance to the guides to its programming provided by the World Wide Web site TitanTV and the one for the publication TV Guide (the name of the program was "UNCF: An Evening of Stars"; the time period of its appearance on the main broadcast channel for WEAR-TV was 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.)*.

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV was set to have special network programming from the FOX Broadcasting Company (about a series of championship soccer matches officiated by an organization known as the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (it was also known as by the acronym FIFA)) during the time period in which it usually had new editions of two nationally-syndicated TV game shows from Monday through Friday ("Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune" respectively) this past Friday (6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m), and set to have the new editions it would have had of those programs during that time period that day if not for the special network programming planned for that time period later the next day during an usual time period for it to have either old or new editions of those programs (3:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m.).

(*an earlier version of the guide to the main broadcast channel for WJTC-TV from the site Zap2it also had the name of the special program before being changed to have the name of the programs that it would actually have between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. this past Saturday).

News for Saturday, June 13th, 2015

• According to a message on the official World Wide Web site for WJFW-TV in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, a former weather reporter of theirs to which this message was attributed was set to take a position at WKRG-TV after this past Friday, June 12th (the message was also posted onto a Facebook page attributed to her; as for her name, it was Melissa Constanzer).  

• A weather reporter for WALA-TV ended this past Friday's edition of their local morning news program ("FOX 10 News in the Morning") by waving his hands the way one of its regular news presenters usually did to end its broadcasts in recent times while she was absent from this particular edition of the program (the name of the weather reporter was Matt Barrentine; the name of the regular news presenter was Sarah Wall).

• According to a Facebook message attributed to a news presenter and news reporter for WKRG-TV, both he and another news presenter and news reporter for WKRG-TV were in Richmond, Virginia earlier this calendar week accepting an award from their holding company (or parent company) for their own company's reports about some flooding that occurred in their local broadcast area back in the year 2014 (the names of the news presenters and news reporters were Bill Riales and Devon Walsh; the name of the holding company was Media General). 

News for Friday, June 12th, 2015 (amended)

• The last paragraph of the previous report for this weblog ("News for Thursday, June 11th, 2015") was updated. 

• The most recent edition of a series of local TV segments about a minute in length for the main broadcast channels of WPMI-TV and WJTC-TV that usually included sub-segments titled "UMinutes" and "The 16 Weeks of Summer" was hosted by a former sports broadcaster from Spanish Fort, Alabama (east of Mobile) named Terra Reeves instead of the person person who had hosted its previous edition (a promotional announcer for WPMI-TV and WJTC-TV's broadcast operations named Jerry Thompson)*.

• Between 3:00 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. today, the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV had a syndicated TV courtroom program that usually appeared on the main broadcast channel for WJTC-TV on a regular basis from Monday through Friday instead of a paid commercial program in accordance with the guides to their own main broadcast channel's programming from the World Wide Web sites Zap2it and TitanTV or a recording of their local 10:00 p.m. news program ("Local 15 News at Ten") from this past Thursday, June 11th, in accordance with the guide from the site for the publication TV Guide (the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV usually had a recording of the most recent edition of their local 10:00 p.m. news program between 3:30 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. from Tuesday through Saturday before this past Monday, June 8th; as for the name of the courtroom program, it was "Divorce Court"). 

(*the series used to have regular hosts before the editions hosted by Terra Reeves and Jerry Thompson)

(amendment note: the name of the syndicated TV program referenced in the third paragraph was added)

News for Thursday, June 11th, 2015 (updated)

• A weather reporter for WPMI-TV was celebrated in their local news programming today in honor of it being the anniversary of her birth (the name of the reporter was Deitra Tate).  

• A radio announcer for WZEW-FM appeared on last Thursday's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") as part of a segment it had about a theater company's plan to have a series of theatrical performances based on a story titled "Fiddler on the Roof" (the name of the announcer was Gene Murrell). 

• Today's edition of WPMI-TV's local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") had a report about a new edition of a nationally-syndicated TV courtroom program that was set to be part of their main broadcast channel's programming today ("Judge Judy") having a court case involving folks from their local broadcast area ("locals") without any mention as to where from this area (their case was titled "Handyman on Holiday"). (update for Friday, June 12th: the area from which they came was mentioned in another report about the courtroom program on today's edition of WPMI-TV's local morning news program ("Local 15 Today"): Baldwin County, Alabama).

News for Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

• This past Tuesday's edition of WALA-TV's local 5:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") on June 9th had a report with a new member of their news department named Lee Peck.

• WAVH-FM recently had a contest involving some of their logos and pictures of different people appearing beside them while visiting certain places of business (you may access such images and learn more about the contest by visiting the official Facebook page for WAVH-FM).

• Today's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") did not have a news and commentary segment immediately after its title sequence (or opening sequence) and preview like most of its previous editions (it had a cooking segment immediately afterwards instead; as for whether it had a news and commentary segment at all; it did after the cooking segment). 

News for Tuesday, June 9th, 2015

• The second paragraph of the last report for this weblog ("News for Monday, June 8th, 2015") was corrected. 

• Between 12:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. today, the digital sub-channel* that was added to WALA-TV's broadcast operation last Thursday, June 4th, had programming from the national TV programming service Cozi TV instead of a black image (it usually did by then; meaning it usually had no programming of any kind by then).

• The presenters for recent editions of local TV programs produced by WALA-TV (such as local news programs and their local entertainment and lifestyle program titled "Studio 10") told the audiences for those editions about their station's plans to have special network programming from the FOX Broadcasting Company on their main broadcast channel** both today and this past Monday, June 9th, and that it would take precedence over having new editions of their local 4:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 4:00 p.m.") on those days (the special programming was about a series of soccer matches officiated by an organization known as the the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA for short).  

(*radio frequency channel 9-2/virtual channel 10-2)
(**radio frequency channel 9-1/virtual channel 10-1)

News for Monday, June 8th, 2015

• Today's edition of WPMI-TV's local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") did not begin at 4:30 a.m. like previous editions of it in recent times (it began at 5:00 a.m.).

• According to WPMI-TV, the reason for today's edition of their local morning news program beginning at 5:00 a.m. instead of 4:30 a.m. like previous editions of it in recent times was due to 5:00 a.m. being its new regular start time by then (it had been changed from 4:30 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. by then).

• A network news program from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) titled "Early Today" appeared on the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV 30 minutes later than usual today during the time period that was normally used for broadcasting the first few segments of their local morning news program before today. 

News for Sunday, June 7th, 2015

• The main broadcast channel for WFGX-TV was set to have a new edition of a nationally syndicated TV game show titled "Monopoly Millionaires' Club" earlier than usual last Sunday, May 31st (between 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.), and this Sunday (between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.) due to plans to for it to have college baseball programming from the American Sports Network during the time period in which it usually had a new edition of it on a weekly basis (6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.)

• The programming guides for the main broadcast channel of WALA-TV from Zap2it, TitanTV, TV Guide, and the Comcast Corporation incorrectly had two editions of a nationally-syndicated TV game show titled "Jeopardy!" listed for today, specifically for the hour of 5:00 p.m. (the channel only had one edition of it between 5:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. As for what it had between 5:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., it was an edition of another nationally-syndicated TV game show titled "Wheel of Fortune").

News for Saturday, June 6th, 2015

• This past Friday's editions of WPMI-TV's local 6:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. news programs ("Local 15 News at 6:00 p.m." and "Local 15 News at 6:30 p.m.") each had a report about members of their holding company (or parent company) signaling the end of trading at the NASDAQ Stock in New York, New York that day (the name of the company was the Sinclair Broadcast Group).

• The national cable TV and satellite TV programming service named Pop was set to have a nationally-syndicated TV game show that was usually part of WFGX-TV's regular programming plans for Monday through Friday under the name "Celebrity Name Game" broadcast on a regular basis from Monday through Friday in one of the time periods normally used for WFGX-TV's broadcasts of it: 5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (WFGX-TV and Pop each had a different edition of it in their programming during that time period between this past Wednesday, June 3rd, and this past Friday, June 5th).

News for Friday, June 5th, 2015

• A digital sub-channel was added to the broadcast operation of WALA-TV this past Thursday, June 4th (they usually had no digital sub-channel by then)*.

• An advertisement for the position of "chief meteorologist" (or main weather reporter) at WPMI-TV dated this Tuesday, June 2nd, was posted onto one of the official World Wide Web sites for their holding (or parent) company (the Sinclair Broadcast Group), specifically the one for posting advertisements for positions at stations within the company such as theirs (the name of the site was "SBG Careers"). 

• According to WPMI-TV, the person who currently holds the position of "chief meteorologist" in their weather department was set to leave the position this summer (the name of the person was Derek Beasley). 

(*the channel had no programming by the time of this writing, even though TV sets receiving its signal via antennas may have either its radio frequency (9-2) or virtual number (10-2) and the name "Cozi TV" appear in graphics for displaying information about it). 

News for Thursday, June 4th, 2015

• The main broadcast channel for WJTC-TV had a new local TV program titled "Forward March" this past Wednesday, June 3rd, between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. (it usually had an episode of the comedic TV program "Sanford and Son" at 7:00 p.m. and an episode of another comedic program titled "The Jeffersons" at 7:30 p.m. from Monday through Friday)

• According to an administrator for the official Facebook page for Harley-Davidson of Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida (southeast of Mobile), the local TV program mentioned in the first paragraph of this report was set to be part of WJTC-TV's programming on a weekly basis, specifically on Wednesdays between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

• One of the weather reporters for WKRG-TV (John Nodar) used part of this past Wednesday's edition of their local 9:00 a.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 9") to wish his papa (Robert (Bob) Nodar) a happy birthday that Wednesday as part of a segment about the World Wide Web and the Internet in general (it had a Facebook page with a picture of his papa at one point).

• WKRG-TV had a news report about bullying and depression and an advertisement for an law firm based in Auburn, Alabama (the Slocumb Law Firm) in which one of its lawyers (Michael (Mike) Slocumb) was depicted as a child hitting another child being a bully to another child appear nearly side by side on their main broadcast channel this past Wednesday (the news report was part of a segment of their local 9:00 a.m. news program that was broadcast immediately after the advertisement).  

News for Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV* recently had some local weather segments less than a minute in length appear between commercial breaks for their local morning and midday news programs (the names of the programs were "Local 15 Today" and "Local 15 News at Noon"). 

• A news reporter for WPMI-TV on this past Monday's (June 1st) edition of their local midday news program referred to their main broadcast channel as "WPMI" rather than the way news reporters like her usually referred to it (by the brand name "Local 15") while promoting a special program of theirs that was set to be part of its programming later that day between 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. (the name of the reporter was Katie Herrera; the name of the special program was "Surviving the Storm". 

• According to a news release from the holding company (or parent company) of WEAR-TV, WFGX-TV, WPMI-TV, and WJTC-TV (the Sinclair Broadcast Group), dated last Wednesday, May 27th, the holding company of WNTM-AM, WKSJ-FM, WRKH-FM, WTKX-FM, and WRGV-FM (iHeartMedia) was set to have at least one of those stations promote a special nationally-syndicated TV program from the United Negro College Fund ("UNCF: An Evening of Stars") set to be broadcast by at least one of the aforementioned TV stations between today and the Sunday of this June 13th.

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

News for Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015

• The main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV* recently had a new edition of a series of local programming segments normally broadcast by them and their companion station WJTC-TV in which special deals by businesses in their local broadcast areas were usually promoted differed from previous editions of it not having video of the person who presented it or news related to entertainment (the series usually had such news precede information about special deals; as for the name of the series itself, it was "The 16 Weeks of Summer").

• The person who presented the most recent edition of the series of local programming segments described in the first paragraph was not an employee of a radio station in the broadcast areas of WPMI-TV and WJTC-TV or an employee of WPMI-TV and WJTC-TV like previous editions of the series; he was actually an announcer with his own business who did many announcements for WPMI-TV over the past 27 calendar years (he first started working for WPMI-TV in the October of the year 1988; as for his name, it was Jerry Thompson).

• This past Monday's (June 1st) edition of a national TV program titled "Jimmy Kimmel Live" had video of the news presenter for that day's edition of WKRG-TV's local 9:00 am news program (Devon Walsh of "WKRG News 5 at 9") saying, "Another Kardashian to keep up with" and video of one of the presenters for that day's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program (Chasity Byrd of "Studio 10") saying, "One more Kardashian to keep up with" along with videos of other presenters for local TV programs outside of the TV market for Mobile saying either the same phrases or phrases similar to them in reference to news about the pregnancy of a member of a family usually featured in a national TV program named for her and other members of her family titled "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" (the first name of this particular member was Kimberly, even though she was usually referenced by the nickname Kim).  

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

News for Monday, June 1st, 2015

• According to a news release dated last Wednesday, May 27th, by the holding company (or parent company) of WEAR-TV, WFGX-TV, WJTC-TV, and WPMI-TV (the Sinclair Broadcast Group) the company was set to have at one of those stations and TV stations in all of the other TV markets they serve broadcast a special nationally-syndicated TV program from the United Negro College Fund (the UNCF) between today and the Sunday of June 14th of this calendar year (the program would be titled "UNCF: An Evening of Stars").

• According to the World Wide Web sites Zap2it and TitanTV, WEAR-TV and WJTC-TV might have the type of TV program referenced in the previous paragraph broadcast simultaneously through their main broadcast channels* on the Saturday of this June 13th between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., while the network program that would be pre-empted by WEAR-TV's broadcast of the other program would be recorded for them to have on their main broadcast channel later the next day (Sunday, June 14th) between 1:36 a.m. and 3:36 a.m. (the name of the network program that would be pre-empted was "In a Instant"). (the main broadcast channel for WEAR-TV usually had network programming from the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) during this time period on Saturday while the main broadcast channel for WJTC-TV usually had a syndicated theatrical movie)

(*the main broadcast channel for WEAR-TV is radio frequency channel 17-1/virtual channel 3-1; the one for WJTC-TV is radio frequency channel 45-1/virtual channel 44-1)