News for Thursday, June 30th, 2016

• WPMI-TV had "breaking news" at the very beginning of their local news program for the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. ("Local 15 Today") instead of the animated sequence normally used for its broadcasts this Thursday. 

• One of the breaks for the edition of the local news program mentioned in the first paragraph of this report had a promotional video with an announcer talking about two of the candidates for the position of president of the United States as if they were the only candidates for the position (the names of those two candidates were Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump) and saying either one of them could be the 45th president of the United States in spite of the fact that there had only been 43 other persons to hold the position (the video was for products based on the physical appearances of the candidates: the "Chia Hillary Clinton" and the "Chia Donald Trump").

• WALA-TV had audio of a certain rendition of a certain kind of song often referenced as "America the Beautiful" (specifically one connected to a certain musician named Ray Charles Robinson) and a certain rendition of a certain kind of song often referenced as "The Star Spangled Banner (specifically one connected to a certain musician named Jimi Hendrix) in some of the local news programming they had on their main broadcast channel this past Wednesday on the twenty-ninth day of this June while graphics about plans for displaying fireworks in their local broadcast area between this Sunday on the third day of this July and next Monday on the fourth day of this July were being displayed as part of the programming.