News for Thursday, July 7th, 2016

• An administrator for the official Facebook page for WKRG-TV posted an advertisement there for restaurant operators who may be interested in promoting their restaurants on a regular feature of a local news program for WKRG-TV ("Take 5" on "WKRG News 5 at Noon").*

• Some of the breaks for commercial and promotional advertisements on the main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had an advertisement for residents of their broadcast area within an certain age group (the advertisement had "kindergarten to 5th grade" instead of an actual age group) who may be interested in presenting weather reports for one of their local news programs ("FOX 10 News in the Morning" to be precise). 

• Some members of the local news operation for WALA-TV (a news reporter named Candace Murphy and a news presenter named Lenise Ligon) did not give all of the tips from the list of tips for surviving lightning they had on display in the local news programming they had this past Wednesday on the sixth day of this July immediately after a report they had a report about a person surviving three lightning strikes. 

• The main broadcast channel for WALA-TV had programming segments (sponsored by them and Pepsi) about some of the history of a battleship in Mobile Bay named the United States Ship Alabama, some of the history of Carnival celebrations in Mobile, and some of the history of a house where a former professional baseball player from Mobile named Henry (Hank) Aaron lived during some of its breaks for commercial and promotional advertisements in its programming on this day and this past Wednesday on the sixth day of this July (the announcer in the segments used a slogan for Pepsi to describe the ship, the celebrations. and the house ("a southern original")).  

(*WKRG-TV usually did not have advertisements for possible guests of this feature through either their programming or their official Facebook page by then)