News for Friday, April 8th, 2016

• According to the official Facebook page for WKRG-TV and today's edition of their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("WKRG News 5 This Morning"), the news presenters for the program (Bill Riales and Jessica Taloney) were using a live video stream for the page when they were not on the program during some parts of its broadcast and during some of its breaks for commercial and/or promotional advertisements in their programming. 

• This past Thursday's edition of WPMI-TV's local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("Local 15 Today") on the seventh day of this April had a report about a member of the board of commissioners for the Mobile County Public School System who usually hosted a local radio program for WGOK-AM dedicated to public affairs named "Pass it On" and a local TV program for WALA-TV also dedicated to public affairs named "Rise and Shine" being set to host a public meeting about an idea he was said to have proposed about having part of the system he represented as a member of the board be a separate school system (his name was Robert Battles).