News for Tuesday, June 21st, 2016

• WPMI-TV had video of a live contest involving contestants for a national scholarship program based in Mobile named Distinguished Young Women on one of their local news programs this past Monday on the twentieth day of this June (specifically the one they had in their programming between 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. that day: "Local 15 News at Noon").*

• The news presenter and the weather reporter on the local news program WPMI-TV had in their programming during the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. this past Monday (Kelly Jones and Kelly Foster respectively; on "Local 15 Today") kept saying, "Welcome to summer" in spite of the official start time of summer for this calendar year for the hemisphere of their local broadcast area (the northern hemisphere) being later that day (5:34 p.m.).**

• One of the weather reporters for the local news operation at WALA-TV (Chasity Byrd) had used her position of hosting a local TV program of theirs dedicated to entertainment and lifestyles ("Studio 10") to say that she and a friend of hers (a person she was said to had "dated", according to the other host for the program (Joe Emer)) got engaged last Saturday on the nineteenth day of this June (she said the friend proposed their engagement).  

(*videos of some of the contest and the winner of the contest being interviewed afterwards were uploaded onto the official World Wide Web site for WPMI-TV)

(**the news presenters and weather reporter on the local news program WKRG-TV had in their programming during those hours that day (Chad Petri, Jessica Taloney, and John Nodar respectively; on "WKRG News 5 This Morning") were discussing the start of summer for the hemisphere several times on the program (including the start time)).