News for Saturday, October 31st, 2015

• One of the digital sub-channels for WFGX-TV had programming from a new national TV programming service that was set to begin today (the sub-channel (virtual channel 35-3/radio frequency channel 50-3) was added to their broadcast operation for the purpose of broadcasting programs from the service; as for the name of the service, it was Comet).

• The digital sub-channel for WKRG-TV that usually only had weather information (including graphics, text, and instructional programs) had an updated version of a message it had earlier this calendar week about changes planned for it: "Weather information on this digital channel 5.2 will be permanently replaced by ION TV on Monday, Nov 2nd. Please use wkrg.com or the free News 5 weather app for weather, outside of our newscasts". 

News for Friday, October 30th, 2015 (updated)

 (update for November 1st, 2015: the World Wide Web address for the hyperlink "Dunne" was replaced)

• WPMI-TV has a new weather reporter for Saturday and Sunday named Jake Dunne (he was given an introduction on their local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") today). 

• The hosts for WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program (Joe Emer and Chasity Byrd of "Studio 10") wore costumes for today's edition of the program in observance of Halloween and the theme for the 61st Greater Gulf State Fair in Mobile (the theme was based on a theatrical movie titled "The Wizard of Oz"; as for their costumes, the one named Joe Emer was dressed like the scarecrow in the movie while the one named Chasity Byrd was dressed like the person named Dorothy in the same movie).

• WKRG-TV did not have a certain animated sequence that was normally used to introduce segments of their local 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") about certain news reports and features from the World Wide Web or reports about technology and the World Wide Web in their broadcasts of such segments for the program this week just like previous weeks (the sequence usually had audio of a news presenter of theirs named Rose Ann Haven saying, "Wake up! And now 'Around the Web and Around the World'...and the gulf coast too"). 

News for Thursday, October 29th, 2015

• WALA-TV had a report about the death of a former news reporter of theirs named Dave Daughtry in their local news programming today (they also had video of a report he did for them back in the year 1998).

• The news presenter for WPMI-TV's local midday news program (Kelly Jones of "Local 15 News at Noon") told its audience that they, the audience, were watching one of their network news programs earlier today while presenting a report about it on today's edition of the midday news program (the name of the network news program was "Today").

News for Wednesday, October 28th, 2015

  (note: the last paragraph of the report titled "News for Monday, October 26th, 2015" was corrected for accuracy)

• WALA-TV had local news programming between 12:34 a.m. and 1:04 a.m. today due to their main broadcast channel having baseball programming from their main provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company) from 6:30 p.m. yesterday until shortly before 12:34 a.m. today (their main broadcast channel was normally used for local news programming by then).

• A message about some changes planned for WKRG-TV's digital sub-channel for broadcasting weather information (including maps, text, and instructional programs) began appearing on the channel on a frequent basis recently ("Weather information on this digital channel 5.2 will be permanently replaced by ION TV this weekend. Please use wkrg.com or the free News 5 weather app for weather, outside of our newscasts").

• One of the hosts for WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program (Joe Emer of "Studio 10") referred to its other host (Chasity Byrd) by a nickname similar to one used by a lawyer (Mike ("The Alabama Hammer") Slocumb) in some videos about his law firm that had been part of their programming plans on a regular basis in recent times while discussing ideas about what her life would have been if she had chosen to become a lawyer instead of a meteorologist (he even imitated the way the lawyer shouted the nickname he used for his self in at least one of the videos when he suggested that she calls herself "the Hammer" if she were a lawyer in a video for a law firm of her very own).

News for Tuesday, October 27th, 2015

 (note: the last paragraph of the report titled "News for Monday, October 26th, 2015" was corrected for accuracy)

• WXQW-AM had local news and weather reports from WPMI-TV in their programming this morning between nationally-syndicated news reports from Westwood One News and parts of a nationally-syndicated news and discussion program named "Doug Stephan's Good Day".  

• The announcer for the promotional segments in WXQW-AM's programming had incorrectly referred to one of their programs by a different name instead of its proper name in a promotional segment used to introduce segments of it in their programming today (he had called it "Good Morning with Doug Stephan" instead of "Doug Stephan's Good Day").

• Two national TV news programs each had video from a local TV station affiliated with it between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. today; both of which were about flooding in southwest Alabama this past Monday, October 26th (the program titled "Today" had video from WPMI-TV whereas the one titled "CBS This Morning" had video from WKRG-TV). 

News for Monday, October 26th, 2015 (corrected)

 (note: the descriptions in the last paragraph of this report were corrected for accuracy)

• WPMI-TV has a new news reporter named Muriel Bailey (she had joined them earlier this month). 

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV recently had a new promotional advertisement for a syndicated TV program of theirs that usually did not get new promotions in their programming on a regular basis (the name of the program was "The Andy Griffith Show"). 

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV recently had a new promotional advertisement for their selves with the hosts for one of their national TV news programs talking about them (the name of the program was "CBS This Morning").* 

(*descriptions of hosts in the video: the one name Charlie Rose congratulated WKRG-TV on their affiliation with the distributor of the program since the day they had regular programming for the first time (Monday, September 5th, 1955) in honor of the 60th anniversary of that day; the one named Gayle King thanked folks for having watched WKRG-TV's programming over the past 60 years; the one named Norah O'Donnell promoted the local news program for WKRG-TV that usually preceded their program on the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV from Monday through Friday ("WKRG News 5 This Morning")). 

News for Sunday, October 25th, 2015

• One of the news presenters for WKRG-TV's local news operation (Ashley Knight) used the final segment of their local 10:00 p.m. news program for this Sunday ("WKRG News 5 at 10") to make an announcement about one of their weather reporters (Jonathan Owens) being set to leave his position with them in order to pursue certain opportunities outside their company (the weather reporter commented on the announcement while part of the segment).

• According to the guides to the main broadcast channel for WFNA-TV provided by TitanTV, TV Guide, and Comcast, a nationally-syndicated TV program that usually appeared on the main broadcast channel for their companion station (WKRG-TV) on Saturday evenings whenever it was not partially or completely pre-empted by either local news programming or collegiate football programming was set to appear on their own main broadcast channel on a regular basis recently (the name of the program was "Today's Homeowner with Danny Lipford"; as for when it would to be part of WFNA-TV's programming on a regular basis, that would be on Sundays between 5:00 a.m. and 5:30 a.m.).

• The guides in the cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile to the digital sub-channel of the Alabama Public Television station licensed to serve Mobile (WEIQ-TV) that used to have programming from the national TV programming service known as World every hour each day before the start of this month were corrected recently since they still had listings for programs from the service for the hours in which the channel usually had programs from a different national programming service on a daily basis since the beginning of this month (the name of the other programming service was Create TV; as for the hours in which the channel usually had their programming on a daily basis, they were for the hours between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m) 

News for Saturday, October 24th, 2015

• One of the weather reporters for WALA-TV (Matt Barrentine) made this comment about the general director of the National Weather Commission in the country of Mexico (Roberto Ramirez de la Parra) predicting where a tropical cyclone named "Patricia" could go after arriving in Mexico this past Friday, October 23rd, on their local news program for Saturday and Sunday mornings today ("FOX 10 News in the Morning"): "And just for folks to know--that, that official in Mexico talking about it reaching the Gulf of Mexico and re-intensifying, he has no idea what he's talking about (the news presenter for the program (Candace Murphy) reacted to this part of the comment with laughter). That's not happening, ok (the news presenter responded by saying, "That's why we have you here", to which he replied, "Yeah, I don't know where he got that from, but that's not what's going to happen")". 

News for Friday, October 23rd, 2015

• The weather reporter for WPMI-TV's local morning news program (Kelly Foster of "Local 15 Today") used part of its broadcast for this past Monday, October 19th, to say a person who had an image of a candidate for the presidency of the United States (Hillary Clinton) shaved into the hair of her own head would not actually vote for that candidate in response to a news report it had about the image (she was discussing the report with the person who presented it: Darwin Singleton). 

News for Thursday, October 22nd, 2015

• An article attributed to the director of the news department for WEAR-TV (Kimberly Wyatt) was published onto the official World Wide Web site for the Radio Television Digital News Association this past Tuesday, October 20th. 

• WPMI-TV had the mayor of Prichard, Alabama (Troy Ephriam), a member of their municipal council (Lorenzo Martin), and the chief of their police (Bernard Parrish) in live segments of their local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") today.

• One of the news presenters for WPMI-TV's local morning news program (Darwin Singleton of "Local 15 Today") had used part of its broadcast for this past Wednesday, October 21st, to encourage members of its audience who may have questions for the person representing parts of southwest Alabama in the Congress of the United States (Bradley Byrne) to post those questions onto the Facebook page for WPMI-TV in accordance with an initiative by their holding (or parent) company (the Sinclair Broadcast Group) to help members of the Congress who represent the local broadcast areas of stations such as theirs (members of the holding company) connect with residents of those areas on a regular basis.

Commentary: A transcript of an unobjective news broadcast

I believe this transcript of how one of the news presenters for WEAR-TV's local news operation (Jared Willets) ended their broadcast of some special news programming from their main provider of network programming (the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)) this past Wednesday, October 21st, is a good example of how news should not be disseminated:

"And that is from Washington, D. C. Vice President Joe Biden certainly taking his time and advantage of the opportunity to let us know that he is not running for president of these united states citing some family concerns with which we were very much aware. We'll have more on this of course throughout the day right here on Channel 3 News, but right now let me tell you about this: Diet Coke is a big loser in the cola wars. Sales plunged eight percent worldwide during the third quarter of this year, that follows big declines for Diet Coke in the first half of last year. Diet drinks are struggling. It would seem to be the ingredients make them less healthy than really advertised. Diet Coke['s] also struggling against itself: The growing popularity of no-calorie Coke Zero. I saw sales grow eight percent in the third quarter. Have a Coke and a smile."

News for Wednesday, October 21st, 2015

• WEAR-TV had some special news programming* from their main provider of network programming (the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)) take precedence over local news programming for their main broadcast channel between 11:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. today (they did not have all of the special programming broadcast, though). 

• The digital sub-channel for the Alabama Public Television station licensed to serve Mobile (WEIQ-TV) set to have programming from the national TV programming service known as Create TV from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on a daily basis had video of the service's programming from 12 hours earlier during that time period today while the sub-channel set to have their programming every hour each day had video of their current programming. 

(*the special programming was about an announcement by the vice president of the United States: Joseph ("Joe") Biden)

News for Tuesday, October 20th, 2015

• WXQW-AM recently started having their own programming (usually syndicated news and discussion programs) instead of the same programming broadcast by WGOK-AM (usually gospel).

• WKRG-TV had an interview with a producer for the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) during his visit to Mobile this past Monday, October 19th, in their local news programming that day (the name of the producer was Lee Fitting). 

• One of the guests for today's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") mentioned a couple of chefs who used be part of WKRG-TV's local TV programming for many years while part of a cooking segment for this edition (the names of the chefs were Beatrice ("Connie Bea") Hope and Estelle ("Estelle") Payton). 

News for Monday, October 19th, 2015

• The sports reporter for WALA-TV's local news operation (Michael Brannon) had attributed a still image related to collegiate football to a cousin of his while presenting it about in a segment of their local news programming dedicated to such images this past Sunday evening on October 18th. 

• Even though one of the digital sub-channels for the Alabama Public Television station licensed to serve Mobile (WEIQ-TV) was not supposed to have programming from the national TV programming service known as World every hour on a daily basis any more after the start of this month, the cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile still had listings for the programming World was set to have during the hours in which the channel was supposed to have programming from a different national TV programming service (Create TV from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.) on a daily basis afterwards (including today). 

• According to today's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10"), one of its hosts (Chasity Byrd) was part of a radio programming segment (about weather) she was told had to be replaced due it part of it being silent for 45 seconds when it was broadcast earlier in the day (she and the other host for the program (Joe Emer) had joked it about on today's edition of the program: for example, she, the host involved in the segment, said, "My forecast spoke for itself: I mean nothing going on at all, sunshine", to which he, the other host, replied, "That's some good airtime there: 45 seconds of nothing at all". The other host even tried to "recreate" it after a weather report she did near the end of today's edition of their program (he did so by staying silent, which caused her to shout, "Say something!", to which he replied, "I just wanted to recreate your radio announcement from this morning when you sent in 45 seconds of silence to the radio. Chasity Byrd everybody!")

News for Sunday, October 18th, 2015

• WALA-TV had less news programming than usual this past Friday, October 16th, due to their main broadcast channel having network programming about a live baseball game during their regular time period for Friday editions of their local 9:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") and their plan to have a program about recent high-school football teams in their local broadcast area on the channel afterwards ("First and 10") (note: they usually had local news programming between 10:00 p.m. and 10:05 p.m. on Fridays before having programming about local high-school football games between 10:05 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. during the current high-school football season. As for this past Friday, they had local news programming between 10:35 p.m. and 10:46 p.m. before having local high-school football programming between 10:48 p.m. and 11:09 p.m.).

News for Saturday, October 17th, 2015

• The local TV programming service provided by the Mobile County Public School System (MCPSS TV) had at least one episode of a series of animated theatrical movies from between the years 1941 and 1943 about a fictional character named Superman in its programming today (note: the episode was broadcast in the wrong aspect ratio since it appeared more horizontal than it was meant to appear).

• The digital sub-channels for the Alabama Public Television station in southwest Alabama (WEIQ-TV) recently had the same station identification segments and promotional advertisements at the same times during the time period which both of them were supposed to have the same programs at the same times on a daily basis (6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.) (note: they did not always have the same station identification segments and promotional advertisements at the same times before then). 

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had local news programming instead of a new edition of a nationally-syndicated TV program based in Mobile ("Today's Homeowner with Danny Lipford") that was set to be part of its programming for today in accordance with their regular programming plan for Saturday due to network programming about a live collegiate football game ending during the second half of the hour in which it would have had both both local news programming and the syndicated program in accordance with that plan (6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.) (note: local news programming was usually set for the first half of the time period before then). 

News for Friday, October 16th, 2015

• According to the official World Wide Web site for a new national TV programming service named Comet, WFGX-TV was set to have programming from the service the day it was set to begin (Saturday, October 31st). 

• WPMI-TV had video of a resident of their local broadcast area being told she had won a car and a news reporter of theirs (Darwin Singleton) interviewing her immediately afterwards in their local news programming today (it was part of their local midday news program: "Local 15 News at Noon").

• The news presenters and weather reporter for WKRG-TV's local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") used parts of today's edition of the program to design pumpkins (the names of the news presenters were Bill Riales and Avery Cotton; the name of the weather reporter was John Nodar).

News for Thursday, October 15th, 2015

• Some past and present members of WKRG-TV celebrated the 60th anniversary of their first day of regular programming (the Monday of September 5th, 1955) at the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile this past Wednesday, October 14th.

• A revised version of one of the animated sequences for WALA-TV's local news programs was uploaded onto the World Wide Web site YouTube this past May (the revised version had different music and a different announcer). 

• A former radio announcer for WBLX-FM and the mayor of Saraland, Alabama (north of Mobile) made live appearances on WPMI-TV's local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") today (the name of the former announcer was Gina Brown; the name of the mayor was Howard Rubenstein)

News for Wednesday, October 14th, 2015

• WALA-TV had a report about a former weather reporter of theirs (John Edd Thompson) composing a revised version of a song that he and a partner of his (Jerry Powell) made for the University of South Alabama in Mobile many years ago.

• According to the official Facebook page for WKRG-TV, a picture of the news director for their news department (Michial (Mike) Rausch) was used to test members of the public on how familiar they were with some of the candidates for the presidency of the United States (the news director was not one of the candidates). 

• WKRG-TV had a news reporter for their holding (or parent) company (Media General) discuss a recent debate between a group of candidates for the presidency of the United States on their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") today (this was how the reporter was introduced by one of the news presenters for the program: "News 5's national correspondent Mark Meredith is live in our Washington newsroom with the breakdown of the first big contest for democrats. Good morning, Mark").

News for Tuesday, October 13th, 2015

• The main broadcast channel for WFNA-TV had two comedic TV programs ("The Jeffersons" and "Gimme a Break!") appear more horizontal than they were meant to appear on TV screens in their programming today (they were displayed in the wrong picture format or aspect ratio).*

• One of the hosts for WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program (Joe Emer of "Studio 10") used part of its broadcast for today to make digital portraits of his self and some of its guests with a computerized telephone (he used the word "selfie" in reference to the portraits).

• WALA-TV had an live interview with a local radio host in their local news programming between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. today (he was part of their broadcasts from Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile about a collegiate football game that was expected to occur there today; as for his name and station, it was Chris Smith of WNTM-AM (he had appeared as his alter ego for his radio program for WNTM-AM: Uncle Henry)) 

(*WFNA-TV usually had episodes of "Gimme a Break" appear in their correct picture format on their main broadcast channel before this calendar week whereas they usually had episodes of "The Jeffersons" appear more horizontal on the channel before this calendar week)

News for Monday, October 12th, 2015

• WALA-TV had a report from a TV station in Phoenix, Arizona with the same brand name as their local news operation ("FOX 10 News") in a segment of their local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") today (the name of the station was KSAZ-TV)*.

• WPMI-TV had a report about a resident of their local broadcast area appearing on a national network TV program ("America's Funniest Home Videos") on their local 5:00 p.m. news program ("Local 15 News at 5:00 p.m.") this past Sunday, October 11th (the presenter of the report referred to the station set to have the edition of the program with the resident broadcast in southwest Alabama that day as their "sister station" since they were members of the same company: the Sinclair Broadcast Group).

• One of the news presenters for WKRG-TV (Ashley Knight) made an optimistic statement about a professional football team from New Orleans, Louisiana (the Saints of New Orleans) in a report about the team for their local 10:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 10") this past Sunday, October 10th ("The Saints turned the ball over four times in the 39-to-17 loss and will have a quick turn-a-round with a Thursday night game against the Atlanta Falcons in the Superdome right here on WKRG**").

(*the host for the program who introduced the report had erroneously referred to the person who narrated the report in a way members of the FOX News Channel were usually referenced in their local news programming (this is how he referred to the narrator: "FOX's Anita Roman")

(**WKRG-TV was set to have network programming about a football game those teams were expected to have this Thursday, October 15th) 

News for Sunday, October 11th, 2015

• The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) was set to have special programming about a collegiate football expected to happen in Mobile next Tuesday, October 13th (you may access the programming through the cable TV programming service ESPN2). 

• According to WKRG-TV, they did not have any collegiate football programming from the American Sports Network on their digital sub-channel for broadcasting programming from Memorable Entertainment Television (Me-TV) this past Saturday, October 10th, in spite of the guides to the channel's programming from TV Guide and Comcast having had listings for such programming by then. 

• The color of the scenery for the pages of the official World Wide Web site for WKRG-TV (blue) was changed to pink in honor of this October having been declared National Breast Cancer Awareness Month by the president of the United States (Barack Obama) (note: parts of the home page for the official World Wide Web site for WALA-TV were changed for the same reason before the changes to the site for WKRG-TV). 

News for Saturday, October 10th, 2015

• The news presenter for WALA-TV's local news program for Saturday and Sunday mornings (Candace Murphy of "FOX 10 News in the Morning") used part of today's edition of the program for Saturday mornings to tell its audience they were watching their "only local news [program] at 6:00" in spite of WEAR-TV having their own local news program for Saturday and Sunday) mornings ("3 in the Morning Weekend") during the same time period and their being part of the same TV market as WALA-TV.

• WKRG-TV had some opinionated reports about a group of members of the Coast Guard of the United States in their local news programming recently: For example, the news presenter for WKRG-TV's local news program for Saturday and Sunday mornings (Chad Petri of "WKRG News 5 This Morning: Saturday" and "WKRG News 5 This Morning: Sunday") said this about the group while presenting a report about them on the local news program for Saturday mornings today: "the guys said they acted like anybody would in that situation, but in our eyes their actions were heroic" (he even referred to these members as "good Samaritans" and "heroes").  

News for Friday, October 9th, 2015 (updated)

• WPMI-TV had a programming segment with a commentator for their holding (or parent) company ("Behind the Headlines" with Mark Hyman of the Sinclair Broadcast Group) precede a segment of their local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") after one of its commercial breaks today (they usually had such a segment proceed commercial breaks for their local morning news program before this calendar week).

• According to the TV programming guides from TV Guide and Comcast, the digital sub-channel for WKRG-TV that usually had programming from a national TV programming service named Memorable Entertainment Television (Me-TV) was set to have (collegiate football) programming from a a service named the American Sports Network this Saturday, October 10th (between 10:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. and between 6:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.). 

(update for Saturday, October 10th: the aforementioned sub-channel for WKRG-TV still had programming from Memorable Entertainment Television between 10:00 a.m. and 12:37 p.m. today)

Commentary: My mistakes

The corrections I had made on this weblog recently made me want to remind or inform its visitors that I had strived to have news articles without mistakes, that I am still bound to have news articles with mistakes since none of us is perfect, and that all I could do to avoid having news articles with mistakes is to keep striving toward that goal and do my very best. For example, I had done my very best to correct the mistakes I had made recently as soon as possible and acknowledge those mistakes as soon as possible.

I would appreciate being notified about any mistakes in future writings for this weblog through the comments sections for those writings.

News for Thursday, October 8th, 2015

 (note: the previous report for this weblog ("News for Wednesday, October 7th, 2015") was corrected)

• The mayor of Bay Minette, Alabama (northeast of Mobile) was a guest on WPMI-TV's local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") today (his name was Robert (Bob) Willis). 

• A member of the FOX News Channel (David Lee Miller) used the brand name for the local news operation to end a report that was part of WALA-TV's local 5:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") today. 

• WALA-TV had weather reports that were broadcast nearly two minutes after their reporter (Jason Smith) said they would have them after commercial breaks in 60 seconds on recent editions of their local 10:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") (they were broadcast immediately after commercial breaks that lasted nearly two minutes).

News for Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 (corrected)

 (correction note: the word "East" was placed beside "Brewton", the word "northeast" was replaced by "east", the words "Escambia County" were added, the phrase "local 5:00 p.m. news program" was removed, and an explanation for the name of WKRG-TV's local 5:00 p.m. news program being mentioned was added)

• WKRG-TV had video related to a series of shootings that occurred at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut (Sandy Hook Elementary) on the Friday of December 14th, 2012, mixed with video related to a series of shootings that occurred at a college in Roseburg, Oregon (Umpqua Community College) last Thursday, October 1st, in their local news programming while a news presenter of theirs presented a report about the shootings that occurred last Thursday as part of that programming. 

• The news presenter for WKRG-TV's local 9:00 a.m. news program for Monday through Friday (Devon Walsh of "WKRG News 5 at 9" and Monday through Friday editions of "WKRG News 5 at 5" (she usually presented news for the program with another news presenter for WKRG-TV named Peter Albrecht) used part of today's edition of the 9:00 a.m. news program to promote a new edition of a national network TV game show ("Let's Make a Deal") with a resident of their local broadcast area (Judith Goolsby of East Brewton in Escambia County, Alabama, east of Mobile County and Baldwin County) that was expected to be part of their programming today.

News for Tuesday, October 6th, 2015

• The sports reporter for WKRG-TV (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) did a report about a nephew of his (Steven Setterstrom Jr.) being one of the winners of a recent golf tournament for their local news programming today (note: the reporter did not mention his connection to this particular winner of the tournament).

News for Monday, October 5th, 2015

• Some of the (blue) graphics that usually appeared on the home page of the official World Wide Web site for WALA-TV in recent times were replaced with pink versions of them in honor of this October having been declared National Breast Cancer Awareness Month by the president of the United States (Barack Obama).

• The weather reporter for WKRG-TV's local news programs for Saturday and Sunday mornings (Melissa Constanzer of "WKRG News 5 This Morning: Saturday" and "WKRG News 5 This Morning: Sunday") was substituting for the weather reporter for their local morning and midday news programs for Monday through Friday (John Nodar of "WKRG News 5 This Morning", "WKRG News 5 at 9", and "WKRG News 5 at Noon") today.

• The video feed used to provide about twelve hours of daily programming from the national TV programming services known as Create TV through one of the digital sub-channels of the Alabama Public Television licensed to serve Mobile (WEIQ-TV) since last Thursday, October 1st, differed from the feed used to provide about 24 hours of programming from the same service through its other sub-channel before then by not having promotional advertisements for Alabama Public Television or a network/station identification segment with an announcer saying, "You're watching APT Create" interrupt certain promotional advertisements like the other one.

News for Sunday, October 4th, 2015

• The British Broadcasting Corporation (the BBC) had audio recordings of a person identified as a native of Mobile named Rudy Andrews in their radio programming recently, specifically their international radio programming (they were on a program titled "Over to You"; as for what for what they were about, they were about news broadcasters in general). 

• WALA-TV had a live news report (from the state of Oregon) by a member of the Cable News Network (Paul Vercammen) in their local news programming this past Friday, October 2nd (it was part of their local 5:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") that day; as for what it was about, it was about a series of shootings that occurred in Roseburg, Oregon this past Thursday, October 1st).  

• The news presenter for WKRG-TV's local news programs for Saturday and Sunday mornings (Chad Petri of "WKRG News 5 This Morning: Saturday" and "WKRG News 5 This Morning: Sunday") used part of this week's edition of the program for Saturday mornings to talk about how folks could "catch up" with the host of a nationally-syndicated TV program based in Mobile (Danny Lipford of "Today's Homeowner with Danny Lipford") if it were to be pre-empted by collegiate football programming expected for be part of their programming plan that day (he said folks could visit the official World Wide Web site for the program to "catch up" with the host) after introducing a programming segment involving the host (it was the first edition of a new series of programming segments for the local news programs).

News for Saturday, October 3rd, 2015

• On Thursday, October 1st, the official World Wide Web site for WPMI-TV had a message about their companion station (WJTC-TV) being "off the air" in order for improvements to be made to their antenna system. 

• The mayor of Mobile (William Sandys (Sandy) Stimpson) and the chief of police in Mobile (James Barber) appeared in live segments for WPMI-TV's local morning news program ("Local 15 Today") this past Friday, October 2nd (link to segment with the mayor; link to segment with the chief)*.

• Two separate animated sequences were used to introduce segments dedicated to parts of the World Wide Web and the Internet in general on WKRG-TV's local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") this past Friday, October 2nd; one of which usually only appeared on their local 9:00 a.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 9"**). 

(*video recordings of the mayor and the chief from cameras that were not used to broadcast their appearances on the program were uploaded onto the official Facebook page for WPMI-TV (link to video recording of the mayor; link to video recordings of the chief))
(**the sequence that usually appeared on this program had no announcer or music whereas the other one usually did)

Commentary: Alabama Public Television's new programming plan for digital sub-channels

I wish the folks in charge of Alabama Public Television would reconsider having each of their TV stations broadcast programming from the the national TV programming service known simply as Create TV on both of its sub-channels from 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on a daily basis and have them return to broadcasting the programming feed for the service known as World on one of their sub-channels all of time (I liked being able to see their programming feed between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., especially when it had programs I had missed between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.). I understood the reasons for the change, but it's not really fair to children of any level of maturity and the ones whom some adults may not consider mature enough for certain types of programs may still be able to access such programs through other means between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. or even through Alabama Public Television outside that time period through either their main broadcast channels or their sub-channels for broadcasting World's programming feed.

News for Thursday, October 1st, 2015

• WKRG-TV had announcements about a new retransmission consent deal involving them, their companion station (WFNA-TV), and the satellite TV company DirecTV in their local news programming today (the announcements were delivered by one of the news presenters for their local news programming).  

• WEAR-TV, WPMI-TV, and other TV stations in the Sinclair Broadcast Group were set to begin having a new weekly national TV news program made just for them, their official World Wide Web sites, and other sites within their company this Sunday, October 4th (the program was set to be called "Full Measure with Sheryl Attkisson")*

• According to the official World Wide Web site for Alabama Public Television, the TV stations in their network (including WEIQ-TV in southwest Alabama) were set to have programming from the national TV programming service Create TV on both of their digital sub-channels from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on a daily basis from this day forward. 

(*the main broadcast channel for WEAR-TV would usually have it on Sunday between 9:00 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. whereas the one for WPMI-TV would usually have it later on Sunday between 10:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.)

News for Wednesday, September 30th, 2015

• The mayor of Mobile (William Sandys (Sandy) Stimpson) was a guest on WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") today. 

• WALA-TV had a report about a plan for a new TV program about a group of bounty hunters from southwest Alabama in their local news programming this past Monday, September 28th.

• WKRG-TV had announcements about their retransmission consent contract with the satellite TV company DirecTV in their local news programming today (the announcements were delivered by some of the news presenters for their local news operation).