News for Friday, July 22nd, 2016

• Earlier this calendar week, specifically this past Wednesday on the twentieth day of this July, WALA-TV was the only TV station in the TV market (or designated market area (DMA)) for Mobile to have news reports about their local broadcast area on their main programming channel during a time period in which they and the other TV stations in the area with departments dedicated to providing news reports about their local broadcast areas (WKRG-TV, WPMI-TV, and WEAR-TV) usually had such reports on their respective main broadcast channels on a daily basis from Monday through Friday in recent times (between 10:00 p.m. and 10:35 p.m.) due to the other stations each having special network programming about a live speech by a candidate for the vice presidency of the United States (Mike Pence) on their main broadcast channel that day. As for whether WALA-TV still had local news reports on their main broadcast channel during that time period this past Thursday on the twenty-first day of this July while the other stations each had special network programming about a live speech by a candidate for the presidency of the United States (Donald Trump) on their own main broadcast channels, they did not, for they had their own programming about the speech incorporated into one of their local news programs for that day rather than that of special network programs like the ones on the main broadcast channels of the stations (the programming by WALA-TV lasted from 9:17 p.m. until 10:37 p.m.).*

(*both speeches were about the candidates accepting their nominations for the positions for which they were candidates by members of their political party (the Republican Party))