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.