News for Saturday, January 30th, 2016

• WALA-TV had a float and van in a Carnival parade in Mobile's down-town area today (you may access a videorecording of them in the parade on the official World Wide Web site for WALA-TV and their official Facebook page). 

• The sports reporter for WKRG (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) was a commentator for some local radio programming about a live football game held Mobile today (the game was called the Senior Bowl; the radio programming about it was from WNSP-FM).*

*(he said he would be a commentator for such programming prior to today while part of a local news program for WKRG-TV and a live video stream for their official Facebook page)

News for Friday, January 29th, 2016

• According to the official Facebook and Twitter pages for WAVH-FM, their director of operations and host for some of their local radio programs (Sean Sullivan of "Mobile Mornings" and "Midday Mobile") was set to appear on WKRG-TV's local 5:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 5") this past Thursday (the 28th day of this January).

• Today's edition of WKRG-TV's local 9:00 a.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 9") had a disclaimer about Alfa Insurance and the GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico having been paid to sponsor two camera networks for WKRG-TV (this is the way the disclaimer appeared on the program: "Alfa Insurance and GulfQuest Museum are paid sponsors of the Alfa Sky Cam and GulfQuest Museum Cam networks"). 

• Some of the news presenters for WALA-TV had used their local news programming to talk about their having a float set to appear in a parade planned for the city of Daphne in southwest Alabama today and about one of their fellow news presenters being part of the plan for such a parade (the folks set to hold a parade today were called "Apollo's Mystic Ladies"; the name of the news presenter in their plan for this parade was Lenise Ligon).

News for Thursday, January 28th, 2016

• The news presenter and weather reporter for today's edition of WKRG-TV's local 9:00 a.m. news program (Devon Walsh and John Nodar of "WKRG News 5 at 9") talked about the last time the local broadcast area for WKRG-TV had an ice storm.  

• The official Facebook page for WKRG-TV had a live video feed of their sports reporter (Randy Patrick Setterstrom) responding to questions from visitors of the page and reporting on activities related to plans for Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile to hold a football game between two groups of collegiate football players this Saturday (the 30th day of this January) under the name "Senior Bowl" (you may access a recording of the video feed on the page).

• The main broadcast channel for WJTC-TV had a new edition of their local 6:30 p.m. news program ("Local 15 News at 6:30 pm"*) that was shorter than of most of its previous editions (it ended between 6:40 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. rather than between 6:55 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. in accordance with their regular programming plan for Thursday) due to their plan to have special programming about a Carnival parade that was expected to occur in Mobile's down-town area today (the special programming was set to begin at 6:45 p.m. and end by 7:30 p.m.). 

(*the program was produced by WJTC-TV's companion station: WPMI-TV)

News for Wednesday, January 27th, 2016

• Today's edition of WPMI-TV's local 5:00 p.m. news program ("Local 15 News at 5 pm") had a report about their plans to have special programming about Carnival parades expected to occur in Mobile's down-town area between today and the ninth day of next February (the second Tuesday for that month).  

• Today's edition of WALA-TV's local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") had an interview with a resident of their local broadcast area about his being a contestant on a national TV program named "Redneck Island" in recent times (his name was Cody Davis of Elberta in southwest Alabama). 

• One of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV appeared to express amusement while using a weather segment for their local midday news program ("WKRG News 5 at Noon") to present a "time-lapse video" of clouds that included a moving ship before replaying it on the program (the name of the weather reporter was John Nodar).  

News for Tuesday, January 26th, 2016

• This past Monday's edition of WALA-TV's local 5:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m." on the 25th day of this January) had a report with video of one of the news reporters for their local news operation kicking a football and saying "ow" immediately after doing so (the name of the reporter was Alexa Knowles)

• The same edition of the local news program for WALA-TV mentioned in the previous paragraph of this report had video of a member of the Cable News Network (CNN) located in Des Moines, Iowa talking to one of the news presenters for the program in Mobile about plans to hold a public meeting in Des Moines that would involve a group of candidates for the presidency of the United States (the name of the reporter was Karin Caifa; the news presenter for the program was Lenise Ligon).

News for Monday, January 25th, 2016

• Two radio announcers for WRGV-FM (Matt McCoy and Gregory Hill) were on WPMI-TV's local midday news program ("Local 15 News at Noon") recommending new theatrical movies today (they were part of a segment in which they and the news presenter for the program (Kelly Jones) were set to recommend such movies and promote plans for Carnival organizations to hold parades in Mobile during this calendar week).

• One of the segments for today's edition of WKRG-TV's local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") had one of the news presenters for their local news operation say one of the regular news presenters for the program was "brand new" in spite of having been one of their news presenters years ago (the name of the news presenter said to have been "brand new" was Jessica Taloney). 

• The news presenter for the local news program mentioned in the previous paragraph of this report (Jessica Taloney) used part of the program's broadcast for today to say she was part of a poll conducted for the TV station mentioned in that report via telephone a few seconds after the other regular news presenter for the program (Bill Riales) presented a report about the poll on the program.

News for Sunday, January 24th, 2016

• The main broadcast channel WALA-TV did not have local news programming over the course of an hour in accordance with their regular programming plan for Sunday evenings this Sunday (it had local news programming between 10:23 p.m. and 10:53 p.m. after having programming about a live championship football game (the National Football Conference (NFC) Championship) and a dramatic TV program ("The X Files") from their main provider of network programming (the FOX Broadcasting Company) during the time period in which it usually had local news programming on Sunday in recent times (9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.).  

• WALA-TV had animated graphics with the words "breaking news" at the beginning of their local news programming for this Sunday evening instead of the animated graphics that were normally used at the beginning of new editions of their regular local news programs in recent times.

• The main broadcast channels for WFGX-TV and WJTC-TV had the same edition of the same TV program during the same time period today (the name of the program was "Ring of Honor Wrestling"; the time period was 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m).*

*both WFGX-TV and WJTC-TV were members of the same company (the Sinclair Broadcast Group); "Ring of Honor Wrestling" was part of the same company also).

News for Saturday, January 23rd, 2016

• The news presenter for today's edition of the local 9:00 p.m. news program for WALA-TV (Renee Dials of "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.") made an announcement about their having a new electronic mail (e-mail) address for members of the public to send pieces of information to them that may be used in news reports for their local news operation (it differed from the previous address (reportit@fox10tv.com) by having the brand name of their broadcast operation ("FOX 10") both before and after its @ symbol (fox10reportit@fox10tv.com)).

• This past Friday's edition of the local 9:00 p.m. news program for WALA-TV had video of a member of the Cable News Network (CNN) located in the District of Columbia doing a live report about a snowstorm located there that day before answering questions about it by the news presenters for the program in Mobile (the name of the reporter was Chris Welch; the names of the news presenters were Bob Grip and Lenise Ligon; the day of the month for this past Friday (January) was the 22nd.  

• One of the news reports for today's edition of WALA-TV's local 9:00 p.m. news program) had its news presenter showing one of the persons interviewed for the report how to use an computer application sponsored by them (the name of the application was the "FOX10 FloatTracker"; as for its purpose, it was for tracking floats in Carnival parades in the local broadcast area for WALA-TV).

News for Friday, January 22, 2016

• A digital "countdown clock" with the remaining time for when a Carnival parade was expected to start in Mobile's down-town area today was superimposed on today's edition of WALA-TV's local 5:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.").  

• According to a news report that was part of WKRG-TV's local news programming this past Thursday (the 21st day of this January), one of their news reporters (Allen Carter) was allowed to witness an execution at Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama that day.

• According to the official Facebook page for WPMI-TV and the guides to the main broadcast channel for WPMI-TV's companion station (WJTC-TV) provided by Zap2it, TitanTV, and TV Guide, WPMI-TV was set to have special programming about certain Carnival parades that may occur in Mobile's down-town area between now and the end of the Carnival season for this calendar year on the main broadcast channel for the companion station and for their own main broadcast channel.

News for Thursday, January 21st, 2016

• The sports reporter for the local news operation at WALA-TV used part of this past Monday's edition of their local 10:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m." on the 18th day of this January) to tell viewers and/or listeners of the program how they could contact him with ideas for sports reports by telephone, electronic mail, Facebook, and Twitter (the name of the sports reporter was Michael Brannon).

• Today's edition of WKRG-TV's local 9:00 a.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 9") did not have a segment dedicated to news either about the World Wide Web or news found on the World Wide Web like most of its previous editions (the segments were usually called "Around the Web and Around the World"). As for what it had in place of such a segment, it had another weather report in addition to two others that were part of its broadcast.   

• One of the news presenters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV who usually only presented news for their local 5:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 5") from Monday through Friday had substituted for its other news presenter for their local 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. news programs today ("WKRG News 5 at Noon" was the name of the 12:00 p.m. news program; the name of the person who was substituting was Peter Albrecht; the name of the person for whom he was substituting was Devon Walsh)

News for Wednesday, January 20th, 2016

• Today's edition of WKRG-TV's local 6:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 6") had a report about one of the news presenters and news reporters for their news operation (Bill Riales) being the victim of a scam. 

• One of the weather reporters for WKRG-TV (John Nodar) said they had a new camera on the broadcast tower for their broadcast facility in Mobile while presenting video he said was from the camera on their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") and their local news program for the first half of the hour of 9:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 at 9") this past Monday (the 18th day of this January).

• The local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. for WKRG-TV had some of the music of a group of musicians named "The Eagles" precede news about the death of one of the founders of the group (Glenn Frey) immediately after some of its breaks for commercial and promotional advertisements (the program usually did not have music other than its own music immediately after such breaks before today whereas the local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. for WPMI-TV ("Local 15 Today") usually did).

News for Tuesday, January 19th, 2016

• According to the official World Wide Web site for an organization set to hold a football game in Mobile under the name "Senior Bowl" on the 30th day of January (a Saturday), a national cable TV and satellite TV programming service named ESPNU was set to have special programming about practices for the game next Wednesday (the 27th day of this January) and Thursday (the 28th day of this January). 

• According to the official Facebook page for Alabama Public Radio and the official Facebook page for their radio station in southwest Alabama (WHIL-FM), the programming feed for all of their stations was set to have Friday editions of a national radio program titled "Fresh Air" on a weekly basis beginning this Friday (the 22nd day of this January) and set to have the national radio program "This American Life" every Saturday instead of every Friday beginning this Saturday (the 23rd day of this January).

• A former news presenter for WEAR-TV named Mollye Barrows and a former news presenter for WALA-TV named April Douglas had helped promote certain businesses in southwest Alabama for a series of videos under the name "Marketplace 5" for WKRG-TV's main broadcast channel in recent times (the channel occasionally had one of the videos immediately after the end of the a local news program for WKRG-TV that was usually part of its programming between 12:00 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. from Monday through Friday in recent times (the name of the program was "WKRG News 5 at Noon")).* 

 (*link to video of April Douglas in the series; link to video of Mollye Barrows in the series)

News for Monday, January 18th, 2016

• A past news presenter for the local news operation at WKRG-TV named Jessica Taloney had recently rejoined their news department to become one of the regular news presenters for their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning")*

• According to the Facebook page for WKRG-TV, the page had a live video feed with both of the news presenters for their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. (Bill Riales and Jessica Taloney) interacting with visitors of the page this morning.

• The husband of one of the news presenters for the local news operation at WALA-TV was a guest of their local entertainment and lifestyle program ("Studio 10") today (he was a wrestling coach for Daphne High School in the town of Daphne in southwest Alabama named Dylan Vivier; as for the news presenter for WALA-TV to whom he was married, it was the one they had named Lenise Ligon). 

(*Jessica Taloney used to one of the regular news presenters for WKRG-TV's local 5:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 5") before leaving their news department in the year 2012) 

News for Sunday, January 17th, 2016

• A new local radio program dedicated to public affairs named "In Touch Gulf Coast" recently took the places of another local radio program dedicated to public affairs named "Community Corner" in the regular programming plans for WBLX-FM, WDLT-FM, WABD-FM, and WXQW-AM (they usually had "Community Corner" in their programming on Sunday until this January). 

News for Saturday, January 16th, 2016

• WPMI-TV had reports about their having a plan to host a public meeting next February (one of those reports was part of their local news programming).   

• The official YouTube channel for a TV station with the same brand name as WALA-TV ("FOX 10") had a live video stream of a campaign rally for one of the candidates for the presidency of the United States (the one named Donald Trump) that occurred in the local broadcast area for WALA-TV this past Wednesday (the 13th day of this January).*

• WPMI-TV had reports about a plan for the digital sub-channel of their companion station (WJTC-TV) being set to have special programming from a TV station outside of their local broadcast areas (WJLA-TV in the District of Columbia) expected to come next Tuesday on the 19th day of this January (some of those reports were in WPMI-TV's local news programming, including one in which the sub-channel was erroneously called by one of the names of its main provider of programming (Grit TV). 

(*it occurred southeast of Mobile in the city of Pensacola in the state of Florida) 

News for Friday, January 15th, 2016

• One of the news reporters and news presenters for WKRG-TV (Chad Petri) acted like an analyst on their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning") today (he was talking about a recent gathering of some of the candidates for the presidency of the United States and one of the persons who participated in the gathering (a candidate for the presidency of the United States named Donald Trump)). 

• WKRG-TV had a member of a news bureau for their holding (or parent) company (Chance Seales of Media General) provide a live report and some analysis for their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. from the District of Columbia (specifically its city of Washington) today (he was talking about the same gathering of candidates for the presidency of the United States mentioned in the first paragraph of this report and some of the candidates who were not there (their names were Hillary Clinton and Bernard (Bernie) Sanders).  

News for Thursday, January 14th, 2016

• The main broadcast channel for WFNA-TV had a new promotional advertisement for a nationally-syndicated TV program based in Mobile that had video of its host referring to them by their brand name (the name of the program was "Today's Homeowner"; the name of the host was Danny Lipford; as for the brand name, it was "CW55").

• WALA-TV had a digital "countdown clock" superimposed on their local 9:00 p.m. news program ("FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m.) this past Wednesday (the 13th day of this January) to keep count of the minutes left in a national lottery game named Powerball (the clock usually appeared in its news segments on a persistent basis). 

• WALA-TV had the results of the lottery mentioned in the previous paragraph of this report take the place of the digital "countdown clock" mentioned in that report on the local news program they had in their programming after the one with the clock ("FOX 10 News at 10:00 p.m.") this past Wednesday (the results usually appeared the same way the clock usually appeared on the other program).

News for Wednesday, January 13th, 2016

• According to today's edition of WKRG-TV's local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning"), they had recently acquired new cameras ("HD (sky) cameras") for broadcasting live aerial videos of certain parts of their local broadcast area for their local news programming (the news presenter and weather reporter for today's edition of the program (Bill Riales and Melissa Constanzer respectively) each said one of the cameras was located at the GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico in the down-town area of Mobile while presenting video from it on that edition of the program).  

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV did not have 90 minutes of local news programming with commercial and promotional advertisements within a specific time period in accordance with their regular programming plan for Monday through Friday this past Tuesday (the 12th day of this January). It still had such programming during their regular time period for it (9:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.) with the exception of its last few segments being out of that time period (between 10:30 p.m. and 10:33 p.m.), but only for about 60 minutes in total (from about 9:33 p.m. until 10:33 p.m.) due to its network programming about a speech by the president of the United States (the name of the president was Barack Obama; as for the name of the speech, it was the "State of the Union Address").   

• The main broadcast channel for WFGX-TV was set to have programming about a basketball game between two teams representing two different high schools in their local broadcast area this past Tuesday (the 12th day of this January) during the last 90 minutes of a time period in which it usually had programming from a national TV programming service named MyNetworkTV from Monday through Friday (7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.) before having two episodes of the program provided by the service that day ("The Walking Dead") later that same day (9:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.) after a local news program from their companion station ("Channel 3 News at 9 on WFGX" from WEAR-TV). As for what the channel was set to have during the first 30 minutes of that time period, it was set to have an edition of a syndicated entertainment news program that was usually set to be part of its programming between 9:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday ("Extra"). 

Commentary: Disappointment in return of TV program that was very popular in southwest Alabama ("Mama's Family")

I was very interested in the program returning to WKRG-TV's regular programming plans for the first time in years last Monday (the fourth Monday of this January) and disappointed in the way the episodes of the program to be part of their programming since then appeared when they were broadcast (they appeared as if they were made on film instead of videotape since every thing appeared to move slower than the way they usually moved in past broadcasts by other broadcasters). I don't believe either they or the programming service that provided the episodes (Memorable Entertainment Television) were at fault since someone involved in the management of the official Facebook page for the service had posted a message explaining that it was the fault of the company that gave them the video recordings of the episodes. 

(note: you may learn more about how the program was broadcast in this area years ago by visiting the historical feature on this weblog titled "History of 'Mama's Family' Television in Mobile, Alabama")

News for Sunday, January 10th, 2016

• The guides to the main broadcast channel for WJTC-TV from Comcast, TitanTV, and TV Guide had listings for a theatrical movie that was not part of its programming between 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. today (the listings they had were for a theatrical movie originally released in the year 2010 titled "You Again"; as for what was actually was part of the channel's programming during that time period today, it was a theatrical movie originally released in the year 1964 titled "A Shot in the Dark").

News for Saturday, January 9th, 2016

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had an promotional advertisement with a message about "a familiar face" returning to their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. program on the third Monday of this January as part of its 18th day for the current calendar year (the name of the program was "WKRG News 5 This Morning"; as for the message, it was, "A familiar face comes back to News 5 This Morning to start your day"). 

• According to the guides to the main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV on the World Wide Web sites named Zap2it, TitanTV, and TV Guide, the channel was set to have an edition of a nationally-syndicated TV program that was usually part of its programming plan for Saturday during a time period earlier than the one it was given as part of that plan this Saturday (this meant it was set to appear on the channel between 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. instead of between 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.) due to their plan to have football programming from their main provider of network programming on the channel during the regular time period this Saturday (the name of the nationally-syndicated program was "Today's Homeowner" and the name of the provider of network programming was the Columbia Broadcasting System (they were usually called "CBS" for brevity or shortness)).  

News for Friday, January 8th, 2016

• WKRG-TV had a report about members of a national TV programming service named the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network making a programming segment for the network in Mobile this past Wednesday (January 6th) that was part of their local news programming that day. 

• The cable TV channel used to provide standard-definition and high-definition programming feeds from a national TV programming service named Spike to customers of Comcast Cablevision of Mobile recently became inaccessible to digital transport adapters that may had be connected to the system by today (the channels were still accessible to cable TV set-top that may had been connected to the system by then).

News for Thursday, January 7th, 2016

• A local radio announcer for WAVH-FM was part of a news report that WKRG-TV had in their local news programming this past Wednesday (January 6th) and Thursday (January 7th) (the report was about a poll concerning candidates for the presidency of the United States; the name of the announcer was Sean Sullivan). 

• One of the cable TV channels in the cable TV system operated by Comcast Cablevision of Mobile became inaccessible to digital transport adapters that may be connected to the system (the channel usually had programming from a national TV programming service named Pop; as for whether the channel was still accessible through the system at all, it was still accessible to cable TV set-top boxes that may be connected to the system). 

• WALA-TV had video of a sports reporter for a local TV station in South Carolina (Aaron Cheslock of WHNS-TV in Greenville, South Carolina) on a monitor doing what appeared to be a live report from a remote location for their own sports reporter (Michael Brannon) on one of their local news programs ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.") this past Tuesday, January 5th (the reporter named Michael Brannon referred to the station named WHNS-TV by only their brand ("FOX Carolina") while introducing and parting ways with the reporter named Aaron Cheslock on the program; as for what the report was about, it was about plans for holding a football game between the football teams of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina next Monday, January 11th).

News for Wednesday, January 6th, 2016

• The Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network had a conversation between a person identified as being from Mobile and a person originally from Mobile on one of their regular TV program this Wednesday (the name of the program was "Washington Journal"; the network for it was also known by the acronym C-SPAN; the person originally from Mobile was a member of the Congress of the United States named Bradley Byrne). 

• According to Alabama Public Television, they were set to have a programming feed from a national TV programming service that used to be the only programming feed for one of the digital sub-channels of each of their TV stations before last October (retain that status if their broadcast system gets a particular upgrade between this January and next March (the name of the programming service was World; as for now, or as of this writing, their network of TV stations would only have their programming feed between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. before switching over to a different programming feed involving programs from a separate national TV programming service for the hours between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. named Create TV).

Commentary: A surprising introduction by a local TV news presenter and a comment by another one that was not really a surprise to me

I was surprised by what one of the news presenters for WALA-TV had said on one of their local news programs recently (Renee Dials of "FOX 10 News at 9:00 p.m." this past Sunday, January 3rd) since she said it very awkwardly ("the reporter has that story") and I could not remember ever hearing a news presenter refer to a news reporter by only the word "reporter" while introducing a news report narrated by the reporter he or she was referencing (in the case of the news presenter named Renee Dials, she was referring to a reporter for KQDS-TV in Duluth, Minnesota named Lena Takada).

As for what the other news presenter for WALA-TV said on one of their other local news programs recently (Bob Grip of "FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m." this past Monday, January 4th), it did not really surprise me since he and many other news broadcasters had used their respective stations' program to share personal feelings about news over the course of history; whether they were their own feelings or not (in the case of what the news presenter named Bob Grip said that did not surprise me recently, this is what he said while introducing a news report about new jobs in Mobile: "FOX 10 News is committed to helping job-seekers and helping Mobile's economy grow"). 

News for Monday, January 4th, 2016

• WKRG-TV had the host of a syndicated TV program based in Mobile (Danny Lipford of "Today's Homeowner") appear on the set of their local news programs for a segment of this past Sunday's edition of their local news program for Sunday mornings ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Sunday") (it was for a regular series of segments for the program for advice on improving a home; "Ask Danny Lipford" was its name).

• According to Alabama Public Television, one of the programming feeds for one of the digital sub-channels of each of their TV stations (southwest Alabama had one of those stations: WEIQ-TV) had one of their own programs (a documentary titled "Jeremiah Denton") instead of a national program (an episode of a series of documentaries named "Prohibition") during a time period in which it usually had a national program on a daily basis before then (6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.)* 

(*the feed was usually set to have programs from a national TV programming service named Create TV from 6:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. and a live programming feed for a national TV programming service named World from 6:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. before then. If it still had been set to begin having programming from World at 6:00 p.m. this past Sunday, it probably would have had only half of the program that was set to be on the live programming feed for World around that time since it was set to have the program from 5:00 p.m. until shortly before 7:00 p.m. that day).

News for Sunday, January 3rd, 2016

• The regular 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 parts of this Sunday's edition of the program for Sunday mornings to present a video he said was his own "viral video".

(*Chad Petri was not the news presenter for this past Saturday's edition of the program for Saturday mornings)

News for Saturday, January 2nd, 2016

• WKRG-TV had a paid commercial program take the place of a new edition of a network news program from their main provider of network programming titled "The CBS Evening News" in their programming for this Saturday.

• Some of the video recordings on the World Wide Web site for an Internet video service named YouTube include a former weather reporter and "feature reporter" for WKRG-TV who died in the previous calendar year (2015) named William (Jere) Hough (one of the recordings has him in a promotional advertisement for WKRG-TV that would appear on the site if it were played from its beginning for about 18 seconds whereas another one has him interviewing a person on a local news program for WKRG-TV). 

• The news presenter for this Saturday's edition of WKRG-TV's local news program for Saturday mornings ("WKRG News 5 This Morning: Saturday") and one of the news presenters for this past Friday's edition of their local 10:00 p.m. news program ("WKRG News 5 at 10") said "NBC" instead of "ESPN" while presenting reports about the way the "half-time" show for a recent collegiate football game was broadcast by a TV programming service named ESPN (its name stood for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network).

News for Friday, January 1st, 2016

• One of the news presenters for the local 5:00 p.m. news program for WALA-TV ("FOX 10 News at 5:00 p.m.) had referred to a local TV station in Atlanta, Georgia (WAGA-TV) by only their brand name ("FOX 5") while presenting a report about the station for the program today (the brand name was similar to theirs ("FOX 10") and used by other stations affiliated with the FOX Broadcasting Company). 

• WPMI-TV had reports about today being the 20th anniversary of the day their broadcast operation switched from being affiliated with the FOX Broadcasting Company to being affiliated with the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in their local news programming today (the report they had on their local 6:00 p.m. news program ("Local 15 News at 6 p.m.") had video recordings of promotional advertisement from the time their operation was affiliated with the FOX Broadcasting Company along with video of an interview of an employee of theirs from the time of the switch unlike the one they had in their local news program for 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("Local 15 Today")*

(*the Mobile Press-Register had a report about the switch occurring one hour before (Monday) January 1st, 1996)

News for Thursday, December 31st, 2015

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV had special local programming about some live public celebrations in Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida between 11:30 p.m. on this day and 12:30 a.m. on the next day (this Friday, January 1st), both of which were for celebrating the beginning of a new calendar year set to begin that day (2016 in the Gregorian calendar). 

• One of the news presenters for the local news operation at WKRG-TV said their tradition of having renditions of a poem (originally) titled "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" in their programming on a yearly basis was over 40 years old before presenting their most recent rendition of the poem in their local news programming on the Thursday of this past December 24th (the name of the news presenter was Peter Albrecht)

• The main broadcast channel for WKRG-TV was set to have a variety program from their main provider of network programming named "The Late Show" this Friday (January 1st, 2016) during a time period in which it was not usually part of its programming from Monday through Friday due to the special local programming mentioned in the first paragraph of this report and some alternate programming during the time period in which it was usually part of its programming for those days (the unusual time period was 12:30 a.m. to 1:35 a.m; the usual time period was 10:35 p.m. to 11:37 p.m.; as for the alternate programming, it included a syndicated episode of a comedic TV program titled "The Andy Griffith Show").